How to learn the identity of the graphics card?

[Jim Graham]

If there is a card that can't keep up with what we want it to do then we 
should probably be dealing with that on our end as well, whether by 
disabling 3D on that card or by black listing it and just falling back 
to sw pipeline.  We already do that with a number of embedded GPUs...

			...jim

On 8/1/14 2:27 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>>
>> Scott is correct about the determining of the SW pipeline. To add to that,
>> if knowing whether you are running on SW is sufficient
>>
>
> Unfortunately for the Intel HD4000 card that some older laptops have, it
> technically supports 3D but struggles to do basic shader effects at 60fps
> when running at high pixel densities. I think I posted about this problem
> before. Simpler animations work better (just) but I'd prefer to only fall
> back to that when necessary.
>
>
>> I think the suggestion about starting out assuming that animation will be
>> OK and then backing off is a good one, if it is practical for your
>> application.
>>
>
> Given that I'll be bundling a JVM with the app anyway I think it'd be
> easier and give a better UX to just patch JavaFX to expose this data using
> an API specific to my app. It obviously has it because when running with
> Prism debug logging the info is printed.
>