RE: Patch for WineD3D to set Driver an Description

[Stefan Dösinger]

> PS: For Fallout 3 those registry settings should be (or similar):
> "VideoDescription"="NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT"
> "VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll"

We have a display driver database in wined3d that specifies the driver version to report. We could include this information there instead adding a new registry key.

"nv4_disp.dll" obviously makes problems. Our display driver is called "winex11.drv", or arguably for d3d "wined3d.dll"

Patch for WineD3D to set Driver an Description

[Roderick Colenbrander]

The registry key isn't bad. There should also come a key to override the pci id. By default we will use the table and I plan to fix that one properly soon. I talked about it to Henri and I thought that the name 'Display' is used in several places and that likely we need to get the driver name from winex11.drv (it would need to advertise itself as nv4_disp.dll) but Henri wasn't sure if the display driver name is the same as the name reported by d3d. I think they are.

So the default should be the table but users should always be able to override it as we can never get it correctly in all situations.

Roderick
> > PS: For Fallout 3 those registry settings should be (or similar):
> > "VideoDescription"="NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT"
> > "VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll"
>
> We have a display driver database in wined3d that specifies the driver
> version to report. We could include this information there instead adding a
> new registry key.
>
> "nv4_disp.dll" obviously makes problems. Our display driver is called
> "winex11.drv", or arguably for d3d "wined3d.dll"

Patch for WineD3D to set Driver an Description

[Henri Verbeet]

2008/11/12 Roderick Colenbrander :
> So the default should be the table but users should always be able to override it as we can never get it correctly in all situations.
>
> Roderick

Sounds reasonable.

Patch for WineD3D to set Driver an Description

[Chris Robinson]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 05:26:45 am Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> "nv4_disp.dll" obviously makes problems. Our display driver is called
> "winex11.drv", or arguably for d3d "wined3d.dll"

Unfortunately I tried this (setting the display driver to "wined3d.dll"), and 
Fallout 3 still crashes. Seems it'll only accept driver names from nvidia or 
amd/ati cards. Though it could be set to "wined3d.dll" by default, with the 
registry override..