Thought I should send this to winedev as well, is it just me, or is the reply address set to the sender and not winedev?
--- Mike Hearn mh@codeweavers.com wrote:
Yes, the registry is fine though if you are going
to
detect this at startup it may be worth making it volatile.
I'm not sure it makes sense to have a config
option
here. How many people will think to adjust it?
Well, initially I can't won't be able to detect the value since I don't known of any other way that talking to the video card and requesting one of it's registers. (I've got the Matrox g400 code somewhere on an old HDD written in djgcc for dos about 5 years ago) Transgaming make this user configurable so I shouldn't imagine it's an 'easy' task to detect the top ten cards.
It could also be handy for stubborn applications when I want to lie and don't care how slow the application runs (or if it slips into AGP instead of on-videoboard ram) you can get something for windows that fakes a lot of directX functions so that you can play games that must have pixelshaders 2.0 on older cards just missing some effects.
I would send the link, but I can't remember right now and I'm just off down the pub.
I'll start by getting everthing to talk to the registry and work on the volile bit when we have some detection code.
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