Editing Direct3D (section)

==Alternative implementations{{anchor|Wrappers}}==
The following alternative implementations of Direct3D API exist. They are useful for non-Windows platforms and for hardware without some versions of DX support:

* '''[[Wine (software)#Direct3D|WineD3D]]''' – The Wine open source project has working implementations of the Direct3D APIs via translation to [[OpenGL]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.0|title=The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 4.0|website=WineHQ|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> Wine's implementation can also be run on Windows under certain conditions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiki.winehq.org/WineD3DOnWindows |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117122345/http://wiki.winehq.org/WineD3DOnWindows |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-17 |title=WineD3DOnWindows – The Official Wine Wiki |publisher=Wiki.winehq.org |date=2013-06-02 |access-date=2013-06-15 }}</ref>
* '''vkd3d''' – vkd3d is an open source 3D graphics library built on top of Vulkan which allows to run Direct3D 12 applications on top of [[Vulkan (API)|Vulkan]].<ref>{{Citation|title=WineHQ - vkd3d|date=2019-04-03|url=https://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git/|publisher=Direct3D 12|access-date=2020-06-30}}</ref> It's primarily used by the [[Wine (software)|Wine]] project,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winehq.org/news/2018052301|title=Vkd3d 1.0 Released|website=WineHQ|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref><ref name="3d12wine23">{{cite web |author1=Michael Larabel |title=Valve's Proton Offers Branch With VKD3D For Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VKD3D-Proton-Building |website=[[Phoronix.com|Phoronix]] |access-date=October 7, 2019 |date=August 23, 2019}}</ref> and is now included with Valve's Proton project bundled with Steam on Linux.
* '''[[DXVK]]''' – An open source [[Vulkan (API)|Vulkan]]-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on [[Linux]] using Wine.<ref name="forbes10vl6">{{cite web |author1=Jason Evangelho |title=Windows 10 Versus Linux: 6 Steam Games Benchmarked On Intel's Hades Canyon NUC |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/03/01/windows-10-versus-linux-6-steam-games-benchmarked-on-intels-hades-canyon-nuc/ |website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=October 7, 2019 |date=March 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Rebohle|first=Philip|title=Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation for Linux / Wine: doitsujin/dxvk|date=2019-04-03|url=https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> It is used by [[Proton (Compatibility layer)|Proton]]/[[Steam (service)|Steam]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components: ValveSoftware/Proton|date=2019-04-03|url=https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton|publisher=[[Valve Corporation|Valve]]|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> for Linux. DXVK is able to run a large number of modern Windows games under Linux.
** '''D9VK''' – An obsolete fork of DXVK for adding Direct3D 9 support,<ref>{{cite web |title=D9VK GitHub repository |url=https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk |publisher=GitHub |access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref> included with Steam/Proton on Linux.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Michael Larabel |title=Proton Re-Based To Wine 4.11, Adds D9VK Direct3D 9, Better CPU Utilization & DXVK 1.3 |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-4.11-Released |website=[[Phoronix.com|Phoronix]] |access-date=October 7, 2019 |date=July 30, 2019}}</ref> On December 16, 2019 D9VK was merged into DXVK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/1275|title=Implement Direct3D9 Frontend by Joshua-Ashton · Pull Request #1275 · doitsujin/dxvk|website=GitHub|language=en|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref>
** '''D8VK''' – An obsolete fork of DXVK for adding Direct3D 8 support on Linux. <ref>{{cite web|title=D8VK GitHub repository |url=https://github.com/AlpyneDreams/d8vk |publisher=GitHub |access-date=2 February 2024}}</ref> It was merged with DXVK version 2.4 which was released on July 10, 2024.
* '''Gallium Nine''' – Gallium Nine makes it possible to run Direct3D 9 applications on Linux natively, i.e. without any calls translation which allows for a near native speed. It depends on Wine and [[Mesa (computer graphics)|Mesa]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Build Gallium Nine support on top of an existing WINE installation: iXit/wine-nine-standalone|date=2019-04-03|url=https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone|publisher=iXit Group|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref><ref name="ubuntug918">{{cite web |author1=Joey Sneddon |title=Ubuntu 18.10 Adds Gallium Nine Support, Latest Mesa 18.2.2 |url=https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/gallium-nine-ubuntu-18-10 |website=OMG! Ubuntu! |access-date=October 7, 2019 |date=October 10, 2018}}</ref>