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Is this the Holy Grail for linux gaming?
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:51 pm
by dookiesmack
ATI offers DirectX - OpenGL converter
Can this be used to help with having linux gaming on par with windblows machines?
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/11/10 ... index.php#
Re: Is this the Holy Grail for linux gaming?
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:04 pm
by Tsuroerusu
dookiesmack wrote:Can this be used to help with having linux gaming on par with windblows machines?
I seriously doubt it.
Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has released HLSL2GLSL, an open source application designed to help programmers convert graphics code optimized for Windows’ DirectX 9 Application Programming Interface (API) to OpenGL, which is used on the Mac. Binaries for Mac OS X and Windows are available for download.
It's a tool for converting DirectX code to OpenGL code, I doubt it's gonna make Blizzard and Valve release World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2, respectively, for Linux.