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1. Which grapic mode (DX, openGL) does my graphic run currently?card

   

   Topic by SimonT · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi friends, is it possible to run a game and then check which graphic mode the graphic cards runs currently (or was running before closing the game). Because i want to check something in Homeworld, but my analyzing tools don't work. There're parameters for forcing DX or openGL but i would like to check if they actually…

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   Reply by SimonT · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   OK all, thanks for the replies! I got it. The idea with the DLLs was great because there was a gl.dll in the Homeworld directory AND via ProcMon i was able to find out that it tries to access a opengl32.dll in some system dir. I found an awesome tool: GLintercept. It brings a new opengl32.dll and a config file which you…

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   Reply by Ace-Angel · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hard to say, older games would always have both options open to PC platform just incase something went wrong with one system early on in the years. Older GL's had some issues, such as texture seams, blocky textures due to linear aniso, lack of proper opacity in some cases and aliasing issues, not sure if HW2 has any of…

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   Reply by Obscura · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hmmm as i know, windows games using dx and mac games (or other systems)using opengl. Maybe im wrong, but this is how i know.

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   Reply by gray · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   you can capture the internal state of a game but it is a very raw "for programmers" type of task that will probably not really help you unless you know how to read all the calls for the api. i don't think there are any easy tools at this point.

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   Reply by Froyok · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Mac OS runs only OpenGL softwares, but Windows can run both OpenGl and DirectX.

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   Reply by CrazyButcher · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   find where the exe or engine dlls are put a dummy file called opengl32.dll into the same directory and if hw2 doesn't start anymore it used opengl