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Emulating GPU features on a CPU

AtheraalAtheraal Registered User regular
edited August 2010 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
There was a piece of software I found a couple years ago that did this, but I can't recall the name. It let you run things like pixel shaders and antialiasing effects off of your CPU, and let you run games you wouldn't otherwise be able to open due to not meeting graphics requirements. Anyone know of this? It ran under winXP.

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  • DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    the only thing I can think of that does anything like what you're talking about is 3D analyze which allows you to pretend your card supports hardware Transform and lighting. Not sure if this is what you're after though.

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  • ZellZell Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    SwiftShader?

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  • AtheraalAtheraal Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    3D analyze is the software I was thinking of, but swiftshader actually sounds like it might work better for my purposes. Downloading both now, thanks guys

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