On 31 August 2010 00:46, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the previous version of this patch, no version info was returned > for Windows versions which were not in the table. I verified on > Vista/Win7 what version numbers, gpu names and driver strings are > returned to applications running in 9x/2k/xp compatibility mode. It > appears that by default (perhaps the shim database can override it?) > these applications receive information about the current drivers > instead of fake information. For now I'm returning XP driver info if > no match was found. > > Future patches will add the 9x/Vista/Win7 info. When we reach that > stage and a user uses a Geforce 8800 and winver=win98, it will behave > the same as Windows (I assume XP is the default version number). > No. This will simply break currently working functionality. Regardless, I think it's a design flaw anyway to require separate entries for different Windows versions even though they're using the same driver model.
