Technical Report: Implementation and Performance of DirectX 9 in ExaGear Emulators
4. Compatibility matrix (high-level)
“DirectX 9” refers to Microsoft’s Direct3D 9, the D3D9 runtime and associated APIs (D3DX9 helper libs, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectPlay where relevant).
“ExaGear” refers to x86 compatibility/emulation solutions commonly used to run Windows x86 applications on non-x86 Linux systems — specifically Eltechs’ ExaGear Desktop and ExaGear Windows (historical commercial products), community forks and similar x86-on-ARM translation layers. (ExaGear development discontinued; community variants may exist.)
Target: running Windows DX9 applications/games (built for x86 Windows) on Linux ARM devices (e.g., Raspberry Pi, other ARM SBCs) through ExaGear-like x86 emulation/translation layers with Wine or native Windows runtime inside the environment.
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