Implementing dxdiag as student project?

[Erich Hoover]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Roderick Colenbrander <
thunderbird2k at gmx.net> wrote:

> Native dxdiag is checking the name of the display driver which in our case
> winex11.drv and I guess this is just the identifier of Winex11.drv. Inside
> winex11.drv we don't really have the knowledge about the 3d hardware we are
> emulating. In the end we might need to duplicate some card detection code
> inside winex11.drv and show a real driver name like the Nvidia or ATI ones.
> It would be a lot of work and only be worth if apps really need it.
>

I'm not sure if this is exactly the same string you're looking at, but
Fallout 3 currently requires a hack for the display driver information or it
will just crash when you try to start a game (
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15839).

Erich Hoover
ehoover at mines.edu
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