Is DirectX coming to Linux?

DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux If you are a developer working on containerized workload that will be deployed in the cloud inside of Linux containers, you can develop and test these workloads locally on your Windows PC using the same native Linux tools you are accustomed to.

Can you use DirectX 12 on Linux?

The DX on Linux is a WSL2 only thing. Microsoft are not any way bringing DX12 to Linux outside of the Windows environment. They are also in no way open sourcing any of the DX12 driver code.

Is Hyper-V needed for WSL?

The newest version of WSL uses Hyper-V architecture to enable its virtualization. This architecture will be available in the ‘Virtual Machine Platform’ optional component. This optional component will be available on all SKUs.

Why is DirectX not on Linux?

Because DirectX is proprietary software licensed by Microsoft.

Is DirectX a state machine?

Both OpenGL and Direct3D use global state. Every rendering command requires that you set a bunch of state.

Is WSL virtual machine?

WSL 2 is running as a hyper-v virtual machine.

Does WSL affect gaming performance?

Simply installing does nothing to affect your Windows performance. WSL2 only starts up a virtual machine when you create an instance, say opening your distro of choice. Since it is a virtual machine, it will utilize your host system’s memory.

How does DirectX work on Linux?

Part of this DirectX work for Linux involves a new “DXGKRNL” Linux kernel driver for exposing the DirectX graphics adapters to the Linux user-space through the WSL2 setup. The DXGKRNL driver interfaces with the Windows host via a VM bus connection. Multiple GPUs will be supported.

Does WSL2 support Direct3D 12?

Via this Direct3D 12 implementation is also how WSL2 will support OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan. You may recall recently Microsoft and Collabora announced their work to map OpenGL and OpenCL over DirectX 12 . Microsoft is also working with NVIDIA to support CUDA under WSL2.

What’s new in WSL for Linux?

In addition to D3D12 and DxCore, we ported our machine learning API, DirectML to work on Linux when running in WSL. We brought DirectML’s performant machine learning inferencing capabilities to Linux and expanded its functionality in support of training workflows too!

Is there a clean room version of DirectX for Linux?

Microsoft has also made the code of the driver open source, and insists that the Linux dxgkrnl is a “clean room implementation.” The change has also meant that the Redmond gang has been able to bring the DirectX API to Linux (in WSL2) as well.