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==90's APIs==(GlideSee [[Emulation Accuracy]] page for more information about terms like "[[Hypervisors|hypervisors]]", DirectDraw 1-7"[[Simulators|simulators]]", "[[Compatibility_layer|compatibility layers]]", "[[Wrappers|wrappers]]", Direct3D 2"[[FPGA|FPGA-7, OpenGL)based hardware cloning]]" and "[[:Category:Emulators|software emulators]]".

=='90s APIs==(Glide, DirectDraw 1-7, Direct3D 2-7<ref group=N name=>Direct3D 1 doesn't exist, since DirectX 1 did not have a Direct3D component. The first release was Direct3D 2.</ref>, OpenGL 1.x) During the 90s, many [[Intel CPUsPOS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#Intel_CPU.27s|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" colspan="2"|Name

|Vulkan, <br>Direct3D 9| ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} |-|[https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper DxWrapper]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases v1.0.6900.22]|DirectDraw 1-7<br>Direct3D 2-7|Direct3D 9<ref group=N name=dxwrapper>Through '''dd7to9'''.</ref><br>Direct3D 7 (for Direct3D 2-6)<br>DirectDraw 7 (for DirectDraw 1-6)|[https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/DirectDraw-to-Direct3D9-Conversion#table-key ?] ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

|[httphttps://degegithub.freeweb.hucom/narzoul/ dgVoodoo2DDrawCompat DDrawCompat]

|[httphttps://degegithub.freeweb.hucom/dgVoodoo2narzoul/dgVoodoo2DDrawCompat/ {{DgVoodoo2Ver}}tags v0.5.1]|Glide, DirectDraw 1-7, <br>Direct3D 2-97<br>GDI (Partially)|Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12<small>no API conversion</small>| ||{{✗✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓~}}

|[[Wine|WineD3D]https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw cnc-ddraw]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}<br>{{Icon|Linux|macOS}}|[https://wiki.winehq.org/Download {{WineVer}}] <smallref group=N name=cnc-ddraw>(Linux, and macOS)are supported through wine.</small><br/ref>|[https://fdossenagithub.com/?p=wined3dFunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/indexreleases 6.frag {{WineDevVer}}3] |DirectDraw 1-7|GDI<smallbr>(Windows)OpenGL</smallbr>Direct3D 9|Direct3D 2-11|Vulkan, OpenGL|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓~}}

| ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{TBD~}}

|[http://www.glidos.net/download.html 1.53b59]

| ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} |-|[http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo/dgVoodoo/ dgVoodoo]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo/dgVoodoo/ v1.50b2]|Glide 2.11-2.45|Direct3D 7, 9| ||{{✗}} ||{{TBD✗}} ||{{✗}}

| ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/psvoodoo/files/latest/download 0.1317]

| ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|ATI3DCIF, <br>DirectDraw 2

| ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NRCQJ8VLGTK?hl=en-us&gl=US RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper)]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NRCQJ8VLGTK?hl=en-us&gl=US RReady Rendition Verité]|RRedline|OpenGL| ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-| rowspan=2 |Input|[https://github.com/csutorasa/XOutput XOutput]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/csutorasa/XOutput/tags 3.32]|DirectInput|XInput| ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper DxWrapper]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases v1.0.6900.22]|DirectInput 1-7|DirectInput 8| ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|-| rowspan=1 |Sound|[https://github.com/kcat/dsoal DSOAL]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/kcat/dsoal/actions git]|DirectSound|OpenAL| ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{TBD}}

:Targets Supports 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 . Wraps DirectDraw and Direct3D 2-11 that targets up to 7 into 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 2000s and later APIs==(Direct3D 8 and higher, OpenGL 12.3 x and higher, Vulkan)

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

|Glide, DirectDraw 1-7, Direct3D 28-9|Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12

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

|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases 2.6{{VKD3D-ProtonVer}}]

|[https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/releases {{MoltenVKVer}}1.3.268]

|[https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone/releases v0.89] <small>(WIP)</small>

|[https://github.com/crosiremicrosoft/d3d8to9/ d3d8to9D3D9On12 D3D9On12]

|[https://github.com/crosiremicrosoft/d3d8to9/releases D3D9On12 git]|Direct3D 8

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

:Wine's internal wrapper for . Wraps Direct3D 28-11 that targets into 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].

;MoltenVKVKD3D-Proton:Developed A fork of VKD3D funded by the Brenwill Workshop under the Khronos GroupValve, it reimplements Vulkan which is more developed and has experimental support for MetalDXR via VK_KHR_ray_tracing. Emulators like [[Dolphin]] and [[DuckStation]] use MoltenVK instead of a native Metal renderer Requires DXVK's dxgi.dll file to support Apple deviceswork on Windows.

;VKD3D-Protond3d8to9:Not as versatile as dgVoodoo2, however it's the only wrapper that can wrap Direct3D 8 into 9. Its main advantage is Windows XP support, which dgVoodoo2 lacks. It's specifically useful for Windows XP running in VMware, since VMware's Direct3D 8 acceleration has graphical and/or performance issues. ;MoltenVK:A fork of VKD3D funded Developed by Valvethe Brenwill Workshop under the Khronos Group, which is more ahead it re-implements Vulkan for Metal. Emulators like [[Dolphin]] and experimentally supports DXR via VK_KHR_ray_tracing[[DuckStation]] use MoltenVK instead of a native Metal renderer to support Apple devices.

: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 it only works on Mesa, not NVIDIA's proprietary driver.