ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
phoronix.comajross1 hour ago
While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...
I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
chadgpt31 hour ago
Indeed. ReactOS is to the full Windows stack what Wine is to the userland Windows API.
himata411325 minutes ago
I mean they reimplemented directx without vulkan, that's indeed in a league of their own. wine/proton relies on opengl/vulkan to do anything.
NooneAtAll31 hour ago
something I wondered for a while
do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
chadgpt31 hour ago
Yes
augusto-moura34 minutes ago
Some, but not all, most don't. Ideally they would all work, ReactOS doesn't make a priority on being a "safer" option, just an open source option
canyp26 minutes ago
Somewhere in the docs they state that they must also recreate whatever bugs the API has, otherwise applications written with those bugs as an (implicit) assumption could misbehave.
alaskahoffman26 minutes ago
reactos has been in development for 28 years and it can run half-life on real hardware. that is approximately how long half-life 1 itself has existed in the first place!