Yep your right! Wine has it's own implementation of DirectX 9.0c at this time. I was under the impression that wine used OpenGL to emulate DirectX, but not according to their site.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-fbaa851e07d7484640cc10b6d0c48abc741260b2 I'll have to try some OpenGL games, i.e. Sauerbraten, OpenQuake or one of the others. --Manny On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:11 AM, John Rivera <[email protected]> wrote: > > WoW is directx, and is not linux native, i was talking about > native Linux opengl apps, like Google earth, urban terror, and Saurbraten > i can play counter strike source in wine and i have no problems with compiz, > then it locks up hard and i have to reboot )-: >> >> Amazingly I haven't had problems running opengl apps (WoW/wine) and >> compiz at the same time. My laptop has the nvidia 9800M-GT, which >> does an decent job. I'm now partial to linux on nvidia. I've had >> notebooks with intel and ati cards and have always had issues. >> >> Funny thing is WoW locks up regularly when run on vista on this same >> machine. I think it's a driver issue. On linux I've had no issues >> with the driver. >> >> --Manny >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:14 AM, John Rivera <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > yeah but?unfortunately?opengl applications and compositing dont get >> > along >> > very well, i think it is a bug in the x server >> > and that is what is keeping me from using compiz >> >>If anyone using window$ 7 thinks that window$ 7 or any other window$ >> >>compares to the functionality that comes with compiz, they are nuts. >> > >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For those that have used W7 and like the way you can quickly resize a >> >> window to full size, right half or left half. ?You can do the same >> >> with Compiz. >> >> >> >> You just need to turn on the Grid module. ?Once you do that you can >> >> use your numerical keypad to quickly change the position and resize >> >> the window in a few key presses. >> >> >> >> For instance to move and resize the current window to the right half, >> >> I just hit ctl + alt + 5 on my numerical keypad. ?It has much more >> >> functionality than W7. ?I don't have a link as it was something that I >> >> did a search for and read up at the bottom of a blog. ?Enjoy! >> >> >> >> --Manny >> >> ______________________________________ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
