Re: [quick-hack] Sims 2 launch fix, vertex shaders from 256 to 4096

[Henri Verbeet]

On 17 March 2015 at 10:03, Chris Giles <drathian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Originally idea by Robert Showalter, adapted to later wine versions by Luke
> Horwell, altered by me.  Windows emulates 8192 vertex shaders, sims 2
> requires at least half that to launch properly (although it is only supposed
> to ask for 1024), the blue texture glitches exist with this, can be futher
> debugged. Bug 8051, discussion previewed in
> https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2633

As it is, the patch is just wrong. But if it actually works, and you
can write the corresponding tests to show that it's correct, just not
applying the D3D9_MAX_VERTEX_SHADER_CONSTANTF clamp on SWVP devices
would probably be fine.