Re: Feature request: Shader Emulation for Old Graphics Cards

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On 28/03/2008, hellork <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What I would like to see is maybe some check boxes in winecfg such as "emulate shaders [ ] v 1.1 [ ] v 1.4 [ ] v. 2.0 [ ] v 3.0"
>  Maybe this would be too much work and I don't know what I'm asking. But I think fast emulation is possible using open source. This would allow many modern programs to be run on older hardware and I think it would draw in more people and increase interest in the wine project.


The *proper* place for this would be in the graphics card driver or in
Mesa (OpenGL emulator), in X itself. I don't know how feasible that
would be in those places. Emulation is possible, but it's nothing like
as fast as the dedicated hardware of a GPU.


- d.


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