ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
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Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#2While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...
I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#3something I wondered for a while
do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#4something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Yes
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#5While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
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Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#6While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
Indeed. ReactOS is to the full Windows stack what Wine is to the userland Windows API.
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#7something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Some, but not all, most don't. Ideally they would all work, ReactOS doesn't make a priority on being a "safer" option, just an open source option
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#8reactos has been in development for 28 years and it can run half-life on real hardware. that is approximately how long half-life 1 itself has existed in the first place!
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#9something I wondered for a while do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Somewhere in the docs they state that they must also recreate whatever bugs the API has, otherwise applications written with those bugs as an (implicit) assumption could misbehave.
Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
#10While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
I mean they reimplemented directx without vulkan, that's indeed in a league of their own. wine/proton relies on opengl/vulkan to do anything.