We should be able to play DirectX 8 games on Linux now

[Grogan]

Well... with compatibility tools that have the latest DXVK commits I mean. The D8VK project has merged.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Direct3D-8-D8VK-In-DXVK

From the project README,

DXVK
A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.

I'm going to do a build of proton-tkg and the dxvk for my system wine-tkg. I see it's enabled by default (meson options). I might as well have it than not (and at least see if it builds)

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option('enable_d3d8',  type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'Build D3D8')

I don't think I have any DirectX 8 games though... most games skipped that and games that originally released with DirectX 8.x usually got updates porting DirectX 9 support. Remember, back in those days you didn't need a specific version of Windows to upgrade your DirectX runtimes. Win9x and Windows XP could both upgrade DirectX.

I have some DirectX 2.0 games from the 90's I wouldn't mind seeing again (they died with Windows XP)

[Zema Bus]

Yeah I probably don't have any either.