Hi Luke,
We don't want to have all possible GPU models in (there are so many different models). It only gives a hint to apps (yes the proper amount of video memory is more serious) but this should be fixed in a different way I think e.g. nv-control. I think I might look into that again soon.
Roderick
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Luke Bratch l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Adds detection for the Nvidia 8800GTX card and sets its video memory correctly.
Luke Bratch
Am 08.03.2010 um 14:21 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
Hi Luke,
We don't want to have all possible GPU models in (there are so many different models). It only gives a hint to apps (yes the proper amount of video memory is more serious) but this should be fixed in a different way I think e.g. nv-control. I think I might look into that again soon.
I disagree.
Some cards are sold with "enabled special feature X in game Y". The game then looks at the card ID to allow additional configuration options. An example for this is Age of Empires 3 which allows the highest graphics options only for some Geforce 7 models(and a few ATI radeon models).
Our current detection system is fine-grained enough for AoE3, but there may be other games. I think the current setup(especially with the recent improvements) scales well enough that we can make the detection more fine-grained.
On 9 March 2010 08:40, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
Am 08.03.2010 um 14:21 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
Hi Luke,
We don't want to have all possible GPU models in (there are so many different models). It only gives a hint to apps (yes the proper amount of video memory is more serious) but this should be fixed in a different way I think e.g. nv-control. I think I might look into that again soon.
I disagree.
Some cards are sold with "enabled special feature X in game Y". The game then looks at the card ID to allow additional configuration options. An example for this is Age of Empires 3 which allows the highest graphics options only for some Geforce 7 models(and a few ATI radeon models).
Wouldn't that completely break for later-model cards?
Am 08.03.2010 um 22:51 schrieb Ben Klein:
Some cards are sold with "enabled special feature X in game Y". The game then looks at the card ID to allow additional configuration options. An example for this is Age of Empires 3 which allows the highest graphics options only for some Geforce 7 models(and a few ATI radeon models).
Wouldn't that completely break for later-model cards?
It does, I think Command and Conquer Generals was a prominent example until it was fixed by either a game or a driver patch. I'd expect the Nvidia/ATI driver to have quirks for these games to announce a different GPU ID. (C&C Generals was afaik the very reason why the PCI ID code was added to wined3d)
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
Am 08.03.2010 um 14:21 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
Hi Luke,
We don't want to have all possible GPU models in (there are so many different models). It only gives a hint to apps (yes the proper amount of video memory is more serious) but this should be fixed in a different way I think e.g. nv-control. I think I might look into that again soon.
I disagree.
Some cards are sold with "enabled special feature X in game Y". The game then looks at the card ID to allow additional configuration options. An example for this is Age of Empires 3 which allows the highest graphics options only for some Geforce 7 models(and a few ATI radeon models).
Our current detection system is fine-grained enough for AoE3, but there may be other games. I think the current setup(especially with the recent improvements) scales well enough that we can make the detection more fine-grained.
Sure we need cards in the database but this comment was regarding having dozens of similar models. Right now we detect a generic Geforce 8800 but if you are exact then you'll find a 8800 GT, a 8800 GTS, a 8800 GTS; I would prefer if we would keep that called 8800. For some models there are perhaps upto 10 submodels.
Roderick
Hey guys, would you stop spamming wine-patches? Please never replay to wine-patches.
Vitaliy.
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