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

[Brian Paul]

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