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GPU Faker - Bypass GPU restrictions imposed by games like Arena Breakout Infinite (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Fredol@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 28 points 6 months ago

I've heard of Intel Arc users for instance not able to play certain games because it checks for AMD/nVidia, so you'd have to fake the GPU vendor to get it to work.

Eg see stuff like this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

Or https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That is usually more incompetence than malice. They write a game that requires different operation on amd vs Nvidia devices and basically write an

If Nvidia: Do x; Else if amd: Do Y; Else: Crash;

The idea being that if the check for amd/Nvidia fails, there must be an issue with the check function. The developers didn't consider the possibility of a non amd/Nvidia card. This was especially true of old games. There are a lot of 1990s-2000s titles that won't run on modern cards or modern windows because the developers didn't program a failure mode of "just try it"