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Here's a related story on why Microsoft might not want to believe the result of a query of hardware capabilities: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20

Here's a related story on why Microsoft might not want to believe the result of a query of hardware capabilities: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40663 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40... >In other words, whenever DirectX asked, “Can you do this?” they answered, “Sure, we do that,” without even checking what the question was.

JacksonGariety 7y ago
That's a good quote; but I think that the crucial sentence is this one: > The driver must have been written by the sales department.
tedunangst 7y ago
Force enabling a feature that the CPU says doesn't exist seems like rather the opposite of that principle.