[Mesa-users] Beginner with Windows Mesa: it seems to be using software rendering

[Pan, Lifeng]

I know that Linux Mesa supports AMD GPU. Is there any reason we can't do this for Windows Mesa?

-Lifeng
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From: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:02 PM
To: Pan, Lifeng <Lifeng.Pan at amd.com>; mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org <mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] Beginner with Windows Mesa: it seems to be using software rendering

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On 09/28/2019 07:31 PM, Pan, Lifeng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I built mesa 19.2.0 on Windows 10 using following command:
>  >  scons machine=x86 build=debug
>
> I copied
> "mesa-19.2.0-rc4\build\windows-x86-debug\gallium\targets\libgl-gdi\opengl32.dll"
> to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
>
> I tried to debug a simple OpenGL application. The
> glGetString(GL_RENDERER) returns "*softpipe*".
>
> Is it software rendering?

Yes.


> How could I let it use the installed (AMD) GPU
> hardware?

Install AMD's OpenGL driver.  Mesa does not support HW acceleration on
Windows.

-Brian
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