ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games

ReactOS merged a major update porting Wine 10.0's DirectX stack, adding 498k lines of new code while removing 119k lines of old hacks. The change lets ReactOS translate DirectX to OpenGL and Vulkan and improves DirectX compatibility on Windows itself, with developer Justin Miller estimating the work unlocks hundreds of previously unplayable games, including Dragon Age: Origins on NT5.x. ReactOS developers also indicated DirectX 10/11/12 game compatibility is now within reach.

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