VMWare Player does DirectX 10

[Christoph.Krn]

Apparently this isn't exactly new, but I hadn't know about it: VMWare Player (which, by the way, is gratis) supports DirectX up to and including version 10 (for now)! This means that you can use VMWare to play Windows games on a Linux host, as long as the game doesn't require DirectX > 10.0. The performance penalty seems to be /okay/. This video includes a few benchmarks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBXZxhbzxE

Product comparison between VMWare Workstation Player and VMWare Workstation Pro.

 

[_jr_]

Note that there is a NC clause:

The free version is available for non-commercial, personal and home use.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Is the player useful? There's no way to make your own images.

 

[Christoph.Krn]

Is the player useful? There's no way to make your own images.

You can. See the product comparison link that I provided above.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

You can. See the product comparison link that I provided above.

Oh weird, last time I tried it it couldn't do that, or the one in the Gentoo repositories couldn't.

 

[Cloudef]

Wine has been shaping the DX10 support lately too. Actually I would not be surprised if vmware just used wine's implementation of d3d to support it on linux.

 

[TeDaDeS]

I always used the older version of vmware player, I usually installed a fresh linux distro to create a new image. There is no option to create/restore snapshots, but you can just copy the full image.
Didn't use it for (new) games though. Currently I have KVM with Win10 for games, but getting things running with vmware player appears to be a little easier.

 

[Christoph.Krn]

Currently I have KVM with Win10 for games, but getting things running with vmware player appears to be a little easier.

More importantly, it also works in scenarios where the PCI passthrough approach is not possible, such as with laptops.