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

David Gerard
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:06:50 -0000

On 28/03/2008, hellork <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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.


The *proper* place for this would be in the graphics card driver or in
Mesa (OpenGL emulator), in X itself. I don't know how feasible that
would be in those places. Emulation is possible, but it's nothing like
as fast as the dedicated hardware of a GPU.


- d.