[Wine] Re: Feature request: Shader Emulation for Old Graphics Cards

vitamin
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:07:52 -0000

hellork wrote:
> What I would like to see is maybe some check boxes in winecfg such as
"emulate shaders [ ] v 1.1 [ ] v 1.4 [ ] v. 2.0 [ ] v 3.0"
>
> Maybe this would be too much work and I don't know what I'm asking.
But I think fast emulation is possible using open source. This would allow many
modern programs to be run on older hardware and I think it would draw in more
people and increase interest in the wine project.

This is not possible. If old card does not support new shaders, emulating them
in software will be 100's times slover then new card can.
There are reasons why GPUs were made and we using them instead of good 'ol
VGA video cards without any acceleration.