Editing Wrappers

(Glide, DirectDraw 1-7, Direct3D 2-7, OpenGL 1.1-1.2)

During the 90s, many [[Intel CPUs|PC]] game developers chose to use 3Dfx's Glide API for their Voodoo graphics cards. These developers didn't anticipate that 3Dfx would run out of money trying to compete with NVIDIA's offering, and in 2000 NVIDIA bought them for their IP assets (presumably to improve their own cards). Despite the API getting an open source release in 2003, neither NVIDIA or ATI adopted support for Glide in their own drivers, meaning a wrapper is now needed to play these games with hardware acceleration. Or, if we're lucky, the game gets [[Game Engine Recreations and Source Ports|ported or reimplemented]] to use other APIs instead.

! scope="col"|Name

|Vulkan, Direct3D 9

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|[http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/ dgVoodoo2]

|[http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/ {{DgVoodoo2Ver}}]

|Glide, DirectDraw 1-7, Direct3D 2-7

|Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|[[Wine|WineD3D]]

|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}

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

|Direct3D 2-7

|Vulkan, OpenGL

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{TBD}}

|[http://www.glidos.net/download.html 1.53b]

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{TBD}}

|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/psvoodoo/files/latest/download 0.13]

|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|ATI3DCIF, DirectDraw 2

|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

:Targets Glide 2.11, 2.45, 3.10, 3.1 Napalm, all versions of DirectDraw and Direct3D up to version 7, Direct3D 8.1, and Direct3D 9. Outputs Direct3D 11 and Direct3D 12 with different device types as wrapping output such as hardware or software rendering.

:Wine's internal wrapper for Direct3D 2-11 that targets Vulkan and OpenGL. It works pretty well for running older Direct3D games, though it does not come with a Glide implementation of its own. A custom build incorporating Vulkan support is available for Windows [https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag here].

==2000's and later APIs==

(Direct3D 8 and higher, OpenGL 1.3 and higher, Vulkan)

|Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12

|[https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk DXVK]

|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}

|[https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases {{DXVKVer}}]

|Direct3D 9-11

|[https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton VKD3D-Proton]

|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}

|[https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases 2.6]

|Direct3D 12

|Vulkan, OpenGL

|[https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/releases {{MoltenVKVer}}]

|[https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone/releases v0.8]  <small>(WIP)</small>

|[https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/ d3d8to9]

|[https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases git]

:Was originally designed to accelerate support for Direct3D 11 games running under [[Wine]] since a native implementation seemed unlikely. Today it is bundled into [[Proton]]. Later merged D9VK to add Direct3D 9 support.

:Wine's internal wrapper for Direct3D 2-11 that targets Vulkan and OpenGL. For newer APIs it has more bugs than DXVK. A custom build incorporating Vulkan support is available for Windows [https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag here].

;MoltenVK

:Developed by the Brenwill Workshop under the Khronos Group, it reimplements Vulkan for Metal. Emulators like [[Dolphin]] and [[DuckStation]] use MoltenVK instead of a native Metal renderer to support Apple devices.

;VKD3D-Proton

:A fork of VKD3D funded by Valve, which is more ahead and experimentally supports DXR via VK_KHR_ray_tracing.

:An implementation of the Direct3D 9 library on top of the Gallium driver for Linux. By using calls native to Linux, applications running under Wine run "at near-native speeds" according to the maintainers. The caveat is that this only works on Mesa, not NVIDIA's proprietary driver.