WineD3D: Implement detection of ATI cards with Mesa DRI drivers [try 3]

[Roman Mamedov]

Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> I would really ask you to use the D3DX_CAPABLE() macros as not using them can result in bad problems. E.g. a game assuming a certain d3d functionality is there while it isn't backed by any GL extension.
>   
You certainly do have a point. I will redo the patch a bit later, but 
before that, I have a couple of questions.

1) Checking real capabilities surely can be a good way to approximate 
the level of used hardware. But could these D3DX_CAPABLE() macros be 
considered reliable enough to use just them alone (and not the DRI 
module names) for conceiving the card model? If this is so, then 
checking of the Mesa renderer string could remain only for detection 
that the card is from ATI (because it does not give any precise info 
anyway).

2) Are there any plans to add D3D9B_CAPABLE and D3D9C_CAPABLE (and maybe 
D3D10_CAPABLE too)? These would immensely help to identify the newer 
cards. Currently, without such macros, the detection code can't safely 
report that a card is anything more than the ATI's Direct3D 9 
lowest-common denominator, Radeon 9500. (See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon for a table of models and their 
DirectX versions).

Thanks for the reply,
Roman.