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I was playing portal before it was available for linux (it was 2008 and I don't think there was even a mac client for steam yet). It ran faster on mac under win

I was playing portal before it was available for linux (it was 2008 and I don't think there was even a mac client for steam yet). It ran faster on mac under wine than it did on windows, but I did notice wine was downgrading the graphics a bit (probably to DX8). It's possible they were playing L4D under wine before the "native" linux client was released. (the native client still uses a DX -> GL translator for shaders IIRC. Valve open-sourced it.)

ekianjo 10y ago
> (the native client still uses a DX -> GL translator for shaders IIRC. Valve open-sourced it.) yes, toGL - but it's not actively developed anymore. It was Richard Geldreich's project if I recall correctly. > It's possible they were playing L4D under wine before the "native" linux client was released. I did play it under WINE before the native client was released, but the native one was faster.