Wine adds native support for Direct3D 9

Once upon a time, back in 2010, one person made support for Direct3D 10/11 State Tracker in Wine, but it was bad enough, it was abandoned and was not included in the main branch. And yesterday, Christoph Bumiller made support for Direct3D 9 State Tracker and wrote about it on the Wine mailing list, the code passes all wined3d9 tests.
The reasons that prompted him to do this are as follows:

• Gallium was not ready for D3D11, and still not ready, but ready for D3D9
• The author does not see motivating applications using Direct3D 10/11
• The author’s work is written in C instead of C ++, and does not use template hacks to force gcc to generate COM-compatible vtables

Most importantly, Direct3D 9 State Tracker is working now.
The author chased Skyrim, Civilization 5, Anno 1404 and StarCraft 2 and noted an increase in FPS up to 2 times, but there are no benchmarks yet.

This only works with the Gallium3D drivers nouveau (nvc0, NVIDIA), r600g (AMD), swrast, and possibly i915g.

You can try to collect it at home.
github.com/chrisbmr/Mesa-3D/tree/gallium-nine - Patched Gallium
github.com/chrisbmr/wine/tree/d3dadapter9-wip - Patched Wine

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