[Mesa-dev] How to disable GPU acceleration?

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:02 AM, kumar vemuri <kumar210in at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more question Dave. Can a 3D APP/Game refuse to run if hw
> acceleration is not available? I understand that without hw acceleration
> they will be extremely slow and unplayable but i want to know if its
> possible to run (all) 3D apps with s/w renderer.

Depends on if they check for the software strings or if the software
rasterizer doesn't support everything they need,
generally though they just run unuseably slow.

Dave.