The operating system you use will also need to be supported by VirtualBox, the software we’ll be using to run Windows XP.

You can use another operating system, but these instructions have been designed with Windows 10 in mind. To begin using your Windows XP virtual machine, you’ll need to use a PC running Windows 10, with virtualization enabled in the BIOS or UEFI settings. Since FL is so old it's got a lot of performance to spare, it might still run okay, but it's far from an ideal or even desirable situation.Downloading Windows XP and Extracting Installation Files Running a DirectX game through a virtual machine on a Linux host inherently requires DirectX emulation (which is what this thread is about, FL on Linux), so you're going to see shitty performance and lots of overhead. DirectX is miles ahead of OpenGL in that area.Īs for the emulation thing, you seem to have confused two things.

It's not just devs being lazy or being used to Windows and DirectX, it's that Microsoft actually does amazing work with their tools and support. I dearly hope Vulkan manages to dodge that bullet or it'll just end up in the same shitty drawer as OpenGL. It's design by committee at its absolute worst. Is OpenGL a good example of open source? Hell no. There's a lot of bad info on it, the docs are horrendous, the tools are terrible, there's a cruel lack of support for it (AMD performance on OpenGL in Windows is universally panned). OpenGL is a terrible API with a lot of deprecated cruft accumulated from old versions.

This is not a scientific test, it's an anecdote at best, misleading marketing at worst.

Had they spent as much time actually cleaning up their DirectX stack (which has been growing haphazardly for a decade), they probably would've seen an equivalent performance gain. Valve's games run better on OpenGL because they rewrote their entire stack for it.

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