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Well, that's a very big subject. Let me start:
I have an old, crappy EVGA 9800GT and it is just time to buy a new card, for my gaming needs, so I ordered an Asus 660 TI TOP (overclocked). I searched some games that I would really like to play (just to name a few: battlefield 3, assassin's creed 3, far cry 3, etc.) and they are all a no-go on wine, due to the directx11. No opengl support by any game.
So, I thought that a windows partition sitting under my drive_c in wine would be enough, but I was nowhere near, as I learned that d3d11 is just a wrapper around window's graphics driver, which requires windows kernel.
Then, I found another solution, virtualization (qemu or XEN, because vmware and vbox are not that good) with GPU pass through (take a look https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768). As stated in the thread, I need 2 graphics cards, but that's not a problem, since I still have my 9800GT.
PC Specs:
i7-3820
Asus P9X79 Deluxe
16GB ram @1922MHz (I don't remember the timings)
Corsair H100 hydro cooling
Thermaltake Level 10GT
2TB WD sata III HDD (and a 32GB SSD soon)
2x LG Flatron E2251 HD monitors
I use dwm, so I don't need 3D acceleration on the linux side.
Do you have any other suggestions? Will VM's performance be acceptable? I don't care if I have to create a win partition to make things work, or have to format it a million times.
With a 15-20% performance drop (compared to naked win) I would be very happy.
Edit: Added PC specs
Last edited by ttouch (2013-09-22 06:24:39)
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Could installing DX11 to wine environment help? winetricks seems to be able to do just that:
[miky@localhost ~]$ winetricks list-all | grep d3dx11
d3dx11_42 MS d3dx11_42.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx11_43 MS d3dx11_43.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]-m.
What happened to Arch's KISS? systemd sure is stupid but I must have missed the simple part ...
... and who is general Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?
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wine does not actually support directx11 (yet). I know it has implemented d3dx11, but it supports nearly nothing. Not even dx10 is supported.
Anyway, wine/crossover/etc. is not a solution. I've searched the whole internet, dx11 and 10 support maybe one or two ultra specific apps. The games stated are not playable at all (crashing due to lack of dx11).
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