[Wine] Re: AMD/ATI or Nvidia
phildaman46
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Feb 15 14:32:21 CST 2012
jjmckenzie wrote:
> No Linux video driver does DirectX to OpenGL conversions, Wine does
> that. The problem is the speed of conversions and whether OpenGL is
> running in software or hardware. nVidia appears to use their GPU to
> do OpenGL calls and AMD/ATI uses software. Thus the slowdown when
> Wine does the call conversion and then again when the OpenGL call is
> converted again to proprietary calls for the video card.
> Again, this is how it appears. This may not be how the conversions
> are actually completed.
>
> James
Right, Wine does the conversions through the CPU and GPU. I guess what I meant was AMD/ATI doesn't manage Wine conversions very well.
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