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  Re: Yet another Doctor John rant  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 31 Mar 2008 11:05:52
Message: <47f10be0$1@news.povray.org>

>> Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10 
>> platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an 
>> out-of-the-box Wine installation").
> 
> *one raised eyebrow*
> 
> You're telling me a game making intense use of 3D hardware [not to 
> mention CPU-intensive physics simulations] will actually work under 
> software emulation?
> 

Software emulation???

Wine will convert the DirectX calls into OpenGL calls. (well, not 
"convert"; it just has a DirectX "library" where all functions just call 
OpenGL functions)


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