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|[https://teknoparrot.com/ {{TeknoVer}}]

To understand why this is needed for older games, it's important to understand that during the 90s the graphics card market for [[86/286/386/486/Pentium/Pentium_IIIntel CPUs|IBM PCs and compatibles]] was in its infancy, and Direct3D wasn't an automatic choice for developers. Some games were often designed for 3Dfx's Glide API so that it would run with their Voodoo card. With 3dfx going bankrupt however, support for Glide didn't stay around and the API was made open-source, but NVIDIA and AMD never incorporated it into their drivers. A wrapper is now needed to play these games with hardware acceleration, or if we're lucky the game gets [[Game engine recreations/Source Ports|a port]] to other APIs instead.

|[http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide 2.010]

|[https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk DXVK]|Linux|[https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases 0.95]|Direct3D 10, Direct3D 11|Vulkan|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[Wine|Wine Direct3DDirectX]]

|[https://wiki.winehq.org/Download {{WineVer}}] <small>(Linux, macOS)</small><br /> [https://fdossena.com/? p=wined3d/index.frag 4.8] <small>Windows</small>|Direct3D DirectX 1-117

|[http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html 2.55.46]|Direct3D Glide, DirectX 1-7, Direct3D 8.1, Glide9

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|[https://githubwww.comdxgl.org/disks86/VK9 VK9DXGL]|Windows, Linux|[https://githubwww.comdxgl.org/disks86downloads/VK9/releases 0.295.016]|Direct3D 9DirectX 1-7|VulkanOpenGL|{{✓}} ||?{{✗}} <small>WIP</small>

! colspan="7"|2000's and later APIs|-|[https://wwwgithub.dxglcom/doitsujin/dxvk DXVK]|Linux|[https://github.orgcom/doitsujin/dxvk/ DXGLreleases 1.2]|Direct3D 10-11|Vulkan|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[Wine|Wine Direct3D]]|Windows, Linux, macOS|[https://wwwwiki.dxglwinehq.org/downloadsDownload {{WineVer}}] <small>(Linux, macOS)</small><br / 0> [https://fdossena.5com/?p=wined3d/index.frag 4.158] <small>Windows</small>|DirectX Direct3D 1-711

|{{✓}} ||{{✗✓}} <small>WIP</small>

|[https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxup DXUPd9vk D9VK]|Windows, Linux|[https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxup d9vk Git]|Direct3D 9-10|Direct3D 11Vulkan|{{✓}} ||{{✗~}} <small>WIP</small>

|[https://wikigithub.ixit.czcom/iXit/d3d9 wine-nine-standalone Gallium Nine]

|[https://github.com/dhewgiXit/wine-nine -standalone 0.14]

|?Native|{{✓}} ||{{✗~}} <small>WIP</small>

* [http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide nGlide] is a 3Dfx Voodoo Glide wrapper. It allows you to play games designed for 3Dfx Glide API without the need for having 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card. All three API versions are supported, Glide 2.11, Glide 2.60 and Glide 3.10. nGlide emulates Glide environment with Direct3D 9 and version 2.0 implemented Vulkan support, which also makes it work under Linux using [[Wine]] Staging 2.10.0 or newer.<ref name="nglidevulkan">http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2044</ref> Glide wrapper also supports high resolution modes. This is currently the best Glide wrapper. Has a [http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility compatibility list].

* [http://dege.freeweb.hu/ dgVoodoo 2] is a closed-source wrapper for old graphics API's for Windows Vista/7/8/10. The API's it currently can wrap are: Glide 2.11, Glide 2.45, Glide 3.1, Glide 3.1 Napalm, DirectX 1-7 (all versions of DirectDraw and Direct3D up to version 7) and , Direct3D 8.1and Direct3D 9. This wrapper can use Direct3D 11 with different device types as wrapping output such as hardware or software rendering.

* [[Wine]] has an internal graphics API wrapper for DirectX Direct3D 1-11 using OpenGL. It works mostly well for older games, but is slower and has more bugs than newer wrappers using Vulkan, such as DXVK. It is possible to use Wine's wrapper in Windows using different forks.