wined3d: Add Nvidia 8800GTX detection

Henri Verbeet hverbeet at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 10:37:58 CDT 2010


On 21 July 2010 17:30, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, GL_*_memory_info extensions could help there but I think we
> should be cautious with just adding such support to there. Over the
> past few months I have seen various reports of users who run games
> which say to require lets say 128MB of video memory and they just
> don't work on Wine if you don't select a higher amount of video memory
> in the registry. I haven't looked at this at all yet but perhaps the
> current code has some tracking bugs or perhaps the fact that we don't
> track video memory of managed resources perhaps confuses some games.
> It could also be something else but perhaps you have seen things like
> this.
>
Yeah. There are some flaws in our resource management and associated
memory tracking, although it's also certainly possible those reports
turn out to be completely unrelated to that. I'd expect that using the
actual info from the card would help rather than hurt there though.



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