[Bug 31281] New: Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

Bug #: 31281
           Summary: Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.5.9
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Mac OS X
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Playing Red Alert 3 on my Mac (the Windows version, with Wine, since I bought
it before there even was a Mac version) is extremely slow, almost to the point
of being unplayable.

So, I investigated with Apple's handy OpenGL Profiler, and I discovered, much
to my horror, that the GL was rendering the vertices in software. Huh?

In general, this normally happens when Mac OS thinks the GPU can't do it in
hardware. I can't figure out why it thinks that in this case, though. As far as
I can tell, we aren't exceeding any of the limits that we can query with GL's
Get command, so I suspect that the vertex shader is exceeding some sort of
limit.

Hacking Mesa to set the NoRecovery PFA doesn't help. I was baffled... until I
went back, re-read the documentation, and discovered that NoRecovery *only
affects fragment processing*. What? So there's no way to force only-hardware
vertex processing? (Thank God fragment processing was still in hardware, or it
would have been even worse.)

[Bug 31281] Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

Henri Verbeet  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |UPSTREAM

--- Comment #1 from Henri Verbeet  2012-07-22 05:29:34 CDT ---
You don't mention your hardware, or OS X version, or anything really, but it's
probably because the GLSL uniform limits are pretty much completely broken on
OS X. You can probably trade the software fallback for rendering errors by
limiting gl_info->limits.glsl_vs_float_constants to 256, and maybe
gl_info->limits.glsl_ps_float_constants too.

[Bug 31281] Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

[e-mail] changed:

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[Bug 31281] Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

--- Comment #2 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Is this still an issue in the latest wine with latest drivers?

[Bug 31281] Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

Austin English  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #3 from Austin English  ---
Closing.

[Bug 31281] Red Alert 3 on Mac renders vertices in software

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31281

Austin English  changed:

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             Status|CLOSED                      |RESOLVED

--- Comment #4 from Austin English  ---
This was inadvertently caught up in my unclosed bugs filter. NOTOURBUG should
only be closed when fixed upstream.

Setting back to RESOLVED NOTOURBUG.

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