GPU Faker - Bypass GPU restrictions imposed by games like Arena Breakout Infinite

https://lemmy.world/post/15708007

GPU Faker - Bypass GPU restrictions imposed by games like Arena Breakout Infinite - Lemmy.World

There are GPU-locked apps?

Wtf

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: phoronix.com/…/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

Or www.phoronix.com/…/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics

Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics

That is 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”

This is actually more stupid because it’s literally Intel’s fault

Their own fucking XeSS crashes on their own fucking GPUs under Linux so you have to fake the GPU and beg for it to not actually recognize it’s Intel.

“Powerful graphics cards? Psshhh, who’ll ever need those?” - Intel, from 1990 to 2015