While reading on the mailing list, I found a mail a message by Juan Luis Baptiste on the 3D acceleration questions list, that stated the following:
And the difference between cedega and wine is that cedega implements a full Direct3D and DirectSound 9 API, wine doesn't. As far as I kniow, most of the 3D support wine has is because of contributions of Transgaming, stuff that is already in cedega and then backported to wine, which makes cedega always more complete than wine, in 3D stuff that is. Also, Somewhere I read sometime ago that Transgaming claims that cedega has the same performance than in windows, but I havent used it to confirm that.
when the discussion pointed towards suggesting the use of Cedega instead of Wine to make 3D possible a la Parallels...
this was written on september 2007, but for the sake of clearing some things, I want to post this here...
first off, transgaming has not contributed a single line of code to Wine's 3D support. Cedega's contribution to the whole Wine project can actually be counted with one hand and range from trivial to useless.
nothing is backported from cedega to wine
I'm not aware of how Cedega's DirectX implementation works, but I doubt it's too different from Wine's... if I recall correctly, they also rely on OpenGL translations, but I'd have to investigate a little.
Cedega is not more complete than wine... in fact, Transgaming is changing Cedega's code to synchronize it once again with Wine and be able to take stuff they haven't done but that Wine has. (for more information, search Cedega's entry on wikipedia, which I happen to have written to a couple of times)
what cedega has that wine doesn't?... some types of copy protection... and that's about it
cedega WAS a long time ago more complete in it's 3D, but as time has passed, not only has Wine done almost the same things, but have done it even better (more 3D games work on wine than on cedega).. but that was because, since the fork they only concentrated on 3D while wine concentrated on general apps support.... now that wine has gotten so far, cedega is not better than wine
and I also wanted to point out that it's generally better to try software first hand and then make your opinions than trusting the maker's statements blindly

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I would like to hear VBox developer's opinions about this option of using wine to get DirectX acceleration, but I guess that it will only come as either paying consumers or Sun say they want it.... anyways, I think that the (as of this very moment) 33333 Views of this thread works as some indication of what common, non-paying users want
