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rocktorrentz

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Valve's Source Engine Coming To Linux

I thought their servers already ran on Linux?

So what? They don't develop new software? Someone has to port future software.

Kinda my point, if their game server software already runs on Linux, can't be "that" bad to port the full game over

Except for the fact that as far as we know the source engine uses DX9 which has no linux support (except under wine) so they are either porting DX9 (very unlikely) or making an OpenGL frontend which I have no idea if this is hard or not.

B-Con

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From: Frisco, TX

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 549

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Re: Valve's Source Engine Coming To Linux

Except for the fact that as far as we know the source engine uses DX9 which has no linux support (except under wine) so they are either porting DX9 (very unlikely) or making an OpenGL frontend which I have no idea if this is hard or not.

They don't have the full specs to DX9, that's an MS trade-secret. They'd need to reverse-engineer it, like what I believe Wine does. So that's definitely not happening.

Last edited by B-Con (2008-06-02 05:37:58)

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