Re: [PATCH] wined3d: Fix some videocards property detection

28 Mar 2015

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Hi,

This patch has a few unrelated changes. The core change is that it
re-introduces a hack we once had in Wine and removed because it broke
newer mac GPUs. The CrossOver version of the hack works a bit better
than the unconditional Wine version, but it's still ugly.

Am 2015-03-28 um 06:15 schrieb Sergey Isakov:
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+  /* Non-Apple GL vendors report uniforms correctly */
+  if (!match_apple(gl_info, gl_renderer, gl_vendor, card_vendor, device)) return FALSE;
+  /* All dx9 cards are overreported on OSX */
+  if (!match_dx10_capable(gl_info, gl_renderer, gl_vendor, card_vendor, device)) return TRUE;
+  /* Nvidia and Intel DX10 cards support > 256 uniforms */
+  if (card_vendor != HW_VENDOR_AMD) return FALSE;
It is terrible that OSX lies about the GPU capability and then forces
applications to have a crystal ball that tells them what the GPU can
actually do.
- From a pragmatic point of view I don't think OSX will ever change in
this regard. It was a design decision by Apple to do this, and they
stopped updating drivers for the old hardware a long time ago.

I am open to re-introducing the hack if we can find a way to detect the
bug more directly. E.g. try to declare a shader with 257 uniforms, read
them with indirect addressing so the driver can't optimize the access
and then check for software fallbacks. There's a CGL function for
checking that, but I don't remember from the top of my head how it works.

Re: [PATCH] wined3d: Fix some videocards property detection

Stefan Dösinger