Return of the PTR

[AleXoundOS-2818]

@Cydra

This PTR version contains a “soft” deprecation of our dedicated DX9 backend and our OpenGL backend - both are unnecessary with the new backends in play. (Soft meaning that the backends technically still exist in the codebase, but we don’t anticipate anyone needing to run them anymore). In future, we’ll fully deprecate these superfluous backends.

There are StarCraft players running the game under wine on Linux. OpenGL support is crucial for performance under wine. DirectX performance is usually ~20% lower than OpenGL, since non-native DirectX calls are needed to be translated to OpenGL on the fly by software.

Is there a way to enable OpenGL renderer backend for StarCraft.exe? Command line option?

Please, keep OpenGL backend.

[Lalo-1535]

I second this.
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[DeathTBO-1760]

Installing DXVK will help immensely. The DirectX to Vulkan translation has far less overhead.

[Molterer-2361]

will it finally run on m1 macs when the metal-version is released?