Jeremy White, CEO of CodeWeavers, creators of CrossOver for Mac (a commerical implementation of WINE), had this to say about the misty future of their flagship product:
We’ve just shipped a lot of those ‘under the hood’ improvements for games out in CrossOver Games 7.2. We’re really pushing Direct X 9 support pretty far along, and getting ready to move on Direct X 10.
I actually think I’m the only one who gets excited about under the hood improvements. Mainly because it means stuff runs faster and is more stable, especially games. Not sure how DirectX 10 games will run under CrossOver for Mac though. Classics like Max Payne, Deus Ex, Half Life 2, all run wonderfully under CrossOver for Mac, but more modern games can prove a problem.
DirectX 10 is Microsoft’s latest iteration of their proprietary graphics API. DirectX 10 has many improvements over DirectX 9, one of them being that it can only run on Vista. What, that’s a feature! Trust me.
But seriously, DirectX 10 is supposed to bring all sorts of new improvements to rendering, lighting, and so on, meaning things will look more realistic and shinier. Did I mention it only runs on Vista?
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