Re: wine d3d fun projects.

[Scott Ritchie]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 01:20 +0100, Oliver Stieber wrote:
> Hi,
>      I have another 'fun' and useful project to add to
> the list.
>
> It should be fairly to make wined3d (or d3d8) use the
> wgl (windows opengl) instead of glx. (just search for
> glx commands and replace then with the wgl
> equivalents)
>
> Doing so would enable wine's d3d to run on windows in
> place of the windows driver and without the rest of
> WINE which would greatly help in debugging.
>
> It would also allow wined3d to use the wgl
> implementation in wine.

Didn't one of the video card makers experiment with something like this
at one point, translating all Direct3d calls into OpenGL and just
writing OpenGL-optimized drivers (or perhaps vice-versa)?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie