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Macworld UK’s Jonny Evans reports today that UK-based programming house Coderus has announced MacDX, an API, or application programming interface, that helps Mac game developers more easily convert PC games that depend on Microsoft’s DirectX software.

Coderus is the same company that did the recent Mac conversion of Wipeout 2097, a Mac game with PlayStation roots published in the UK by Virtual Programming Ltd. The company is headed up by Mark Thomas. Thomas told Evans that much of the effort made to convert games to the PC focuses on making DirectX calls work in the Mac operating system. While DirectX is ubiquitous on the PC platform, especially for games, Microsoft has never converted the technology to work on the Mac.

Microsoft DirectX is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is OpenGL, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Microsoft DirectX and eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you.

• DirectX 12 Agility SDK Downloads. Welcome to the DirectX 12 Agility SDK landing page where you’ll find links to Agility SDKs and other helpful info. Check out our Announcement blog and Game Stack Live talk. We also have a Getting Started Guide with detailed info for developers who want to integrate Agility SDK support into their engine.
• 8/10 (216 valutazioni) - Download DirectX 12 gratis. Le API di DirectX 12 per potenziare il rendimento dei videogiochi sono preinstallate in Windows 10 e ne hanno corretto alcuni problemi. Da Windows 95 in poi, Microsoft ha sviluppato una versione dopo l'altra di DirectX, la sua raccolta di API.
• Here’s how to do it if your directx encountered an unrecoverable error: -Open the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app.Click the icon of the game you are trying to repair.
• Like DirectX, Metal is intended to provide games and applications, direct access to your Mac’s GPU, allowing improved rendering, frame rates, and other benefits. Metal was actually introduced in iOS 8, but with the recent announcement that it will be rolled into OS X, 10.11, El Capitan, graphic performance on Macs, particularly with regard to.

MacDX isn’t going to appear on your Mac as a piece of software that lets you magically run Windows games at full speed on your Mac. It’s being offered to developers as a way of speeding the process of converting Windows titles to the Macintosh platform.

Evans drew an analogy between Microsoft’s DirectX technology and Apple’s own Game Sprockets technology — a defunct API supported in Mac OS 9. DirectX gives Windows programmers a standard methodology for managing the display of hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, video game controller support, sound, network multiplayer capabilities and many other fundamental aspects of game programming that developers would otherwise have to craft their own solutions or license third-party solutions to provide.

The bottom line is that Coderus is billing MacDX as a way to bring DirectX-dependent games to the Macintosh faster than they’ve been able to before, with a lower learning curve for Windows developers as well. Where this technology may come in particularly handy is with future games that come from the Xbox platform, Microsoft’s entry into the video game console market. As the name implies, the Xbox’s programming roots run deep in DirectX.

Coderus indicated that MacDX supports both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, and supports “a wide range” of hardware from Rev. B iMacs on forward.

VMware Fusion 12 | 14 September 2020 | Build 16880131

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

About VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion® 12 is the easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to run Windows and other x86 based operating systems on a Mac without rebooting.

For more information, see the broader VMware Fusion documentation.

System Requirements

• Hardware
  Mac models that support macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer version.

  • Mac models that support macOS 10.15 Catalina - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT21022.

• Software
  macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer versions.

What's New

• Free Product for Personal Non-Commercial Use

  Fusion Player (previously Fusion Standard) is now free for personal non-commercial use.

• Support macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a host operating system.
  • Run macOS 11 Big Sur as a virtual machine.
• DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 Support
  • Support has been added for DirectX 11 (DX11) and OpenGL 4.1 in the guest operating system.
  • Hardware requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
    • MacPro 2013 and later
    • iMac 27-inch 2014 and later
    • MacBook Pro 13-inch 2015 and later
    • MacBook Pro 15-inch 2015 with dual graphics and later
    • MacBook Air 2015 and later
    • MacBook 2015 and later
    • iMac 21-inch 2015 and later
    • iMac Pro 2017 and later
    • MacMini 2018 and later
  • Software requirements for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1:
    • Guest OS: Windows 7 or higher, or Linux with vmwgfx.
• External GPU support

  Fusion provides support for external GPU when an external GPU is connected to the host. Choose the Prefer External GPU option from the Fusion UI.

• Sandboxed Graphics

  Virtual machine security is enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process.

• New Guest Operating Systems Support
  • RHEL 8.2
  • Debian 10.5
  • Fedora 32
  • CentOS 8.2
  • SLE 15 SP2
  • FreeBSD 11.4
  • ESXi 7.0
• USB 3.1 Controller Support

  The virtual machine's virtual XHCI controller is changed from USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 to support 10 Gbps.

• Larger Scale VM
  • 32 virtual CPUs
  • 128 GB virtual memory
    Note: Running virtual machines with 32 vCPUs requires that your host and guest operating systems both support 32 logical processors.
  • 8 GB virtual graphics memory
• Create VM from APFS Recovery Partition (Now limited to macOS 10.15 host)
• Performance Improvements
  • Improved file transfer speeds (Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste, HGFS)
  • Improved virtual machine shutdown time.
  • Improved container performance.

• vSphere 7.0 Support

  In Fusion 12 you can perform the following:

  • Connect to vSphere 7.0.
  • Upload a local virtual machine to vSphere 7.0.
  • Download a remote virtual machine running on vSphere 7.0 to the local desktop.

• Login to Container Image Registry

  Ability to login to a container image registry with the vctl login command has been added.

• Kubernetes Support

  Fusion 12 now supports KIND kubernetes clusters.

• Improved Accessibility Support

  Accessibility improvements have been added so Fusion is compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria.

Directx 12 Mac Os

Product Support Notices

• Removal of restricted virtual machines
  Restricted virtual machine has reached end of life and been removed from VMware Fusion 12.
• REST API security hardening
  REST API is now only available on local host.

Important Fixes

This release of VMware Fusion addresses the following issues:

• Fusion addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-3980 to this issue. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.

Resolved Issues

• USB devices are not recognized after the Mac wakes up from sleep mode

  A USB device connected to guest OS is not recognized after the Mac woken up from sleep mode.

  This issue is now resolved.

• Unable to use a 2 TB USB drive in the guest OS after upgrading to Fusion 11.5.5

  2 TB USB drives are not recognized in guest OS.

  This issue is now resolved.

• Unable to use the USB devices in macOS Mojave guest operating systems.

  Unable to connect USB devices to macOS Mojave guest operating systems as they are not recognized.

  This issue is now resolved.

• User data in an anonymous volume is lost when the container is stopped

  If a host directory is not mounted to an anonymous volume of a container, the user data in the anonymous volume is not persistent after the container is stopped.

  This issue is now resolved.

Directx 12 Mac Version

Known Issues

Directx 12 Mac

• Unable to access port forwarding on a NAT virtual machine, if the traffic is routed through the host IP stack on Big Sur hosts

  On Big Sur hosts, if user configures NAT port forwarding in Fusion, the service running in the virtual machine is unavailable on the macOS host using localhost:exposedPort, hostIP:exposedPort, or 127.0.0.1:exposedPort; Port forwarding is also not accessible inside a NAT virtual machine using hostIP:exposedPort.

  Workaround: Access the NAT port forwarding through another physical machine with Windows or macOS; or
  access the NAT port forwarding from a bridged virtual machine running on the same Mac machine as the NAT virtual machine.

• Virtual machine's IP address must be changed for NAT port forwarding to work after upgrading Fusion on Big Sur hosts

  If user configures NAT port forwarding on Fusion 11, the port forwarding may be not accessible after upgrading to Fusion 12 on Big Sur because the virtual machine's IP address changes after upgrade.

  Workaround: Change the IP address used for the port forwarding to the current IP address assigned to the virtual machine.

• Users are unable to capture transfer packets in the same subnet of a virtual network inside a virtual machine.

  Virtual machine's virtual interface doesn't report packet exchanges between other virtual machines in the same subnet on Big Sur hosts.

  Workaround: Use the virtual interface on the host to capture traffic information in the subnet. For example, use the interface bridge100 on macOS host to capture the traffic in the subnet.

• If you are using multiple displays in Full Screen mode and the external display is unplugged and re-plugged, multiple full screen spaces will be created in the same display

  The guest OS screen can't be refreshed to the expected screen topology and the user is unable to interact with guest OS using keyboard and mouse after unplugging and re-plugging an external monitor.

  Workaround: Go back to Single Window mode, then switch to Full Screen again.
  

• Jumbo Frame can't be enabled for NAT and Host-only virtual networks on Big Sur hosts

  MTU configuration option is not available in the Fusion UI on Big Sur hosts.

  Workaround:

  1. To enable jumbo frames on macOS host, navigate to System Preferences > Network> Advanced >Hardware > MTU.
  2. Change the virtual machine network to bridged mode to use the jumbo frame feature.
• Can't boot a macOS Big Sur virtual machine into Recovery mode or install macOS Big Sur from host Recovery

  A virtual machine running macOS Big Sur is stuck in a reboot loop after attempting to boot the guest OS into Recovery by holding the Command+R key during boot. Attempting to create a new Big Sur virtual machine from the host's Recovery partition results in the same failure.

  To restore normal operation of an existing macOS Big Sur virtual machine, clear the virtual machine's nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) by holding the Command+Option+P+R key combination.

• After the easy install operation is complete, the VMware Tools is not installed in the guest operating system

  Easy install will not install VMware tools in some guest operating systems including Windows 7, Windows server 2012 R2 and Windows server 2008 R2. This is because some specific Windows update packages need to be installed manually prior to VMware Tools installation.

  Workaround: Perform the following steps after the guest operating system becomes ready:
  For Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 R2 Guest:

  1. Review the information available here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4472027/2019-sha-2-code-signing-support-requirement-for-windows-and-wsus.
  2. Manually get the windows update, then download and install the required Windows updates, available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4474419/sha-2-code-signing-support-update and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490628/servicing-stack-update-for-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2.
  3. Manually install VMware Tools in the guest operating system.

  
  For Windows server 2012 R2 Guest:

  1. Manually get the windows update, then download and install the Update Package (KB2919355) from https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=42334.
  2. Install the .NET 3.5 Framework from Add Roles and Features Wizard.
  3. Manually install VMware Tools in the guest operating system.

  
  To manually install VMware Tools:

  1. Mount the /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/isoimages/windows.iso to the virtual machine's CD/DVD, then connect to the CD/DVD.
  2. Open the CD/DVD in guest and install the VMware Tools in the guest operating system.