Video Memory Patch and GetAvailableTextureMem

man, 15.12.2003 kl. 23.12 skrev Simon Day:
>> Trying to run a game called Horizons, however on startup it
complains
>> that it only has 16Mb of ram available (this was first
running on winex
>> 3.2)
>> 
>> After checking out the cvs tip (this morning) I found Rob's
video ram
>> patch did not seem to be in the code.

>It certainly is, although not unmodified. Your grep doesn't
show x11drv,
>so I guess it must be applied for you too. But looking at the
patch
>again, I guess it only treats ddraw (d3d7 and earlier), not
d3d8 or
>d3d9.

My bad - I was looking for a couple of parts of the patch to
identify its pressence, I obviously picked bits that had changed.

>> dlls/d3d8/d3d8_main.c
>> 
>> UINT WINAPI
Direct3DDevice8_GetAvailableTextureMem(LPDIRECT3DDEVICE8
>> iface)
>> {
>>   TRACE("(%p)->()\n", iface);
>>   return 16*1024*1024; /* 16MB */
>> }

>You could change it to something like
>
>  return dd_gbl->ddCaps.dwVidMemFree;
>
>to take advantage of Rob's patch, although currently
dwVidMemFree never
>changes so it still won't be an accurate representation of
the actual
>free memory...

I added this change and it works great - finally able to get
Horizons running under linux.

Will that be added to the main code?

Simon