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Gallium Nine Has Been Deprecated, Planned For Removal In Mesa 25.2
Long before the likes of DXVK for Direct3D APIs implemented atop Vulkan, and even before the Vulkan API was conceived, there's been Gallium Nine as a Direct3D 9 state tracker implementation for Gallium3D
Gallium Nine showed promise in its early days for speeding up D3D9 Windows games running atop Wine on Linux. But with DXVK working out better these days and Gallium Nine no longer being maintained in recent times, it's now deprecated and set for removal later this year. Gallium Nine was an interesting effort a decade ago for implementing Direct3D 9 APIs within Mesa to boost the Wine-fueled Linux gaming experience.
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