<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/26 Thunderbird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Direct3D9 and lower report the capabilities offered by the gpu e.g. whether the gpu offers multitexturing, shaders and things like that. Games check these capabilities and due to that a Riva TNT would be able to run basic Direct3D9 apps as long as they don't use shaders.<br>
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Further the OpenGL version itself isn't that important it is mostly about the offered OpenGL extensions. If you want to unlock all Direct3D7 features you need a Geforce1/2/2mx/4mx or radeon 7xxx, for fully Direct3D8.1 you would in theory need a Geforce3/4ti / Radeon8500/9000/9100/9200/9300 �but we don't support pixel shaders on those cards because the functionality is very limited on those cards and is only exposed using some old pixel shader extensions. For Direct3D9 SM2.0 support you need a Radeon >=9500 or a GeforceFX but for SM3.0 you need a Radeon >= X1300 or a Geforce >= 6200.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>Thank You � that is what I wanted to know.<br><br>Few more question please...<br><br>4.What about wine support for cards other then Geforce or Radeon? For example, few month ago S3 released something called Chrome GTX 540 � with full OpenGL 3.0 support � assuming drivers are not buggy, will that card work well with wine? Will features like PS(Pixel Shaders) and VS(Vertex Shaders) be supported?<br>
<br>5.If I remember correctly � before OpenGL 3.0 you could use PS only with Nvidia hardware thought one of the extensions � did that change with the release of OpenGL 3.0 � in other words, can you use generic OpenGL (NOT vendor specific extension) to get GLSL and ARB to �emulate� DX Pixel and Vertex Shaders? If so, are you planning to rewrite wine to use this generic OpenGL instead of extensions?<br>
<br>Sorry for so many questions � but I REALLY would like to know.<br><br>Thanks again<br><br>Best regards<br><br></div>