mesa-dist-win VS sodium-fabric

Go to the website https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/releases and download mesa3d-23.3.0-release-msvc.7z, or whatever the latest version is. Just make sure it’s the release version. I assume either the MinGW version or the MSVC version will work, but I’ve only tried the MSVC version (and it's a smaller download).

The thing is, I'm only a little more smart than most normies and the instructions provided in the website aren't clear enough for me, so I figured out I could use a precompiled version of Mesa3D (if it even exists) for Windows for convenience sake. In my searches, I have found two Github repositories of pre-built Mesa3D drivers but I don't know if they're safe. (https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win) (https://github.com/mmozeiko/build-mesa)

all you need to do is download and run this thing called the "Mesa Injector"

The default WDDM driver provided by Microsoft for that GPU is a stripped down version of Intel's reference drivers without the control panel applet and the OpenGL dlls. The older Windows 7 driver will not install on anything newer because it is hardcoded to expect NT version 6.x. There were some patches released about a decade ago to fix this but you're better off running Mesa3D which re-implements OpenGL 3.3 in software https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win

I've managed to run Windows game (Homeworld Remastered) that uses modern OpenGL (3.3) on Crossover using Mesa Zink (OpenGL implementation over Vulkan) build for Windows that you can find here: mesa-dist-win. So if you check Homeworld Remastered or any other modern OpenGL game status on Crossover you will notice that it doesn't work. The issue is that Crossover OpenGL support is limited to 2.1 even if macOS itself supports up to 4.1. I'm not sure why but that means no modern OpenGL Windows games for us. This is where Mesa Zink comes to shine. Zink is Mesa (open source OpenGL/Vulkan/etc. and drivers implementations that are used by Linux and some other operating systems) driver that implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan. There is no native Vulkan on macOS but there is MoltenVK. I was curious if MoltenVK is good enough to run Zink and some big game and turns out it is. Homeworld is working fine and performance is good. I didn't play whole campaign so I can't promise it will work without any issues but I tested it in tutorials and Player vs CPU mode and it seems to work fine with only two minor issues - game will crash if anti aliasing is enabled and there is some minor graphical glitches with invisible ships.

If it's OpenGL-based, have you tried Zink? It was originally meant for Wine/Linux environments, but it should be in there as a normal DLL. It will redirect OpenGL calls to its own Vulkan-based compatibility layer.

i do wonder if you can use https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win to solve your opengl errors, ive only ever tried it in a vm though

Just gonna leave this here.

instead of 46 & 460 with my Windows drivers. So I think there is still something preventing your system from working. I would recommend you submit an issue and see if pal1000 or someone else can help troubleshoot the issue: https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/issues

Try this like the Hiacenty did but for win https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/issues/63

[22:52:47] [Render thread/WARN]: If the game crashes immediately after this point, please make a bug report: https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues

I googled "fabric crashes with falling block" and found this GitHub Issue in the Sodium Repo. Solution: install Indium, because continuity relies on it to bridge over to sodium.

It`s Indium. https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues/1324

GitHub link

if https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues/1006 is what you are talking about, it is an upstream issue for any forge port of the sodium mod

Wow, a reasonable criticism! According to this issue, transparency sorting hasn’t been implemented, and so the behavior is inconsistent. Surprised to see a pull request linked that had fixed it, but was never merged and is now incompatible. Definitely affects users who have farms and stained glass builds though!

The problem with the multithreaded version of Optifine is that OpenGL doesn't officially support multithreading (at least not with older versions of OpenGL; Sodium (for modern versions) uses a "multidraw" function to get up to 10x the FPS but also uses OpenGL 4+, and even then it has issues on many drivers. Note that using such modern features would require a "core profile", precluding the use of all legacy fixed-function methods so the entire renderer would have to be rewritten).