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RE: My experience of Portal, DX9 mode, and Wine 0.9.54
by Brett on Thursday April 17th 2008, 19:38
In fact, looking at it, I believe disabling GLSL amounts to forcing Portal to run in DX 8.1 mode, so it's probably no different than what you reported originally (I found -dxlevel to not work on my card, so I can't confirm that).