Implementing dxdiag as student project?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sun Dec 28 09:45:13 CST 2008


On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Roderick Colenbrander
<thunderbird2k at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Also, isn't it annoying that native dxdiag always says
>> the graphics card is X Windows?  Why is that, and
>> should we change Wine so that the true card's info
>> is reported by native dxdiag?
>
> 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.

OK, alternately, where should Wine's dxdiag.exe get that info?
- Dan



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