[Mesa-dev] Patches to make Gallium drivers respect the force_s3tc_enable environment variable
Brian Paul
brianp at vmware.com
Thu Jul 21 07:12:56 PDT 2011
On 07/20/2011 04:53 PM, Bryan Cain wrote:
> The purpose of the following two patches is to make st/mesa expose the S3TC
> extensions when the force_s3tc_enable environment variable is used. This is
> to match the behavior of the DRI drivers, in which force_s3tc_enable is an
> option in driconf. Although st/mesa can't use the driconf functions, it can
> at least respect the environment variable for this option.
>
> These patches have been tested with fs2_open 3.6.12 and the Freespace 2
> MediaVPs. Setting force_s3tc_enable=true makes the game run flawlessly
> without libtxc_dxtn, whereas without it the game writes several error messages
> to its log file and then crashes.
Which driver(s) did you test this with?
I'm wondering if we could just add the force-enable code down in the
util/format code and let it percolate up to the state tracker. I
haven't looked at this in detail yet.
-Brian
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