'In the coming months, CodeWeavers will have support for DirectX 11 better controller support and further improvements to overall GPU performance.

DirectX 11 support in CrossOver (and Wine) would solve a lot of issues and open up some interesting new avenues. Many of today's games are using DirectX, and that presents a problem for Linux users who want to open that game in Linux. In this case, it's DirectX 11, which is the latest one available, but it looks that support for that particular piece of technology is going to be here very soon. The games are a different situation because gaming engines are complicated to emulate, and they employ technologies hard to emulate, not to mention Microsoft DirectX. The Wine software stack is getting better with each new edition, and there are very few apps that still don't work. Running Windows games and apps on Linux platform can be done with Wine, and it's becoming increasingly easy to do that. The main difference between CrossOver and Wine is ease of use and various small fixes that can only be found in the client.

This will open new gates for CrossOver, and more people will certainly use it.Ĭodeweavers is the company behind the success of the famous Wine, and many of the developers that work on this product are actually employed by Codeweavers. It's not hard to imagine why bringing DirectX 11 support for CrossOver is important, and the company has just announced that is planning to do just that very soon.

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