Top 15 SwiftShader Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The SwiftShader libraries act as drop-in replacements for graphics drivers.

On Windows, most applications can be made to use SwiftShader's DLLs by placing them in the same folder as the executable. On Linux, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or -rpath linker option can be used to direct applications to search for shared libraries in the indicated directory first.

1. R4

R4 R4 is a standalone OpenGL accelerated program (created by Gordon Williams of RabidHaMsTeR.Org) which aims to produce animated 3D graphics in real-time that twist and turn with the music. The WinAmp-based precursor to R4 (R2/Extreme) is now used in many nightclubs, at parties, and has been used at many massive......

2. Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite Phoronix Test Suite is a free, open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems developed by Phoronix Media with cooperation from an undisclosed number of hardware and software vendors.The Phoronix Test Suite has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPlanet and has been called "the best benchmarking platform"......

3. DirectX OpenGL Wrapper

DirectX OpenGL Wrapper DirectX OpenGL Wrapper emulates API calls thru OpenGL commands and other platform specific commands in order to run DirectX 8 application running on other platform than Windows......

4. Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP)

Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) It is a component of the DirectX graphics technology that was introduced by the Direct3D 11 runtime. The Direct3D 11 runtime is installed on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Vista with the [KB971644] update. Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT include the Direct3D 11.1 runtime,......

5. 3D Analyze

3D Analyze With the help of 3DA you can change different graphic options under DirectX 8 and OpenGL. 3DA changes different CAP-bits for example, if a game requires HW T&L 3DA emulates these bits and the games runs on graphic boards which don't have HW T&L capabilities. 3DA doesn't emulate any features......

6. 3D Ripper DX

3D Ripper DX With 3D Ripper DX you can:- capture all geometry, textures and shaders, rendered during single frame;- import captured geometry into 3D Studio Max or Maya;- see what exactly has been drawn by each individual draw call;- see renderstate, textures, vertex streams, index stream, vertex declaration, vertex and pixel shaders (including......

7. Meta 3D Modeller

Meta 3D Modeller Meta 3D Modeller is a three-dimensional modeling tool type modeling clay, capable of 3D painting. 3D modeling to create organic forms with greater stability than the previous version and new tools for painting and texturing facilitating their creativity.......

8. WebGL

WebGL WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar......

9. Synapse Compositor

Synapse Compositor Synapse is a free node based compositor for Linux and Windows.......

10. 3DRACS

3DRACS 3DRACS is a feature-packed application that can be used for a wide range of 3D Graphics and Rendering tasks, as well as it can be used for Real-time Structured Light 3D Scanning, Real-time Virtual 3D Scanning, Triangular Subdivision, Smoothing, Fairing, Cleaning, Texturing, Polygon Reduction, and CNC Cutting Simulation, etc. 3DRACS......

11. GPU Caps Viewer

GPU Caps Viewer GPU Caps Viewer is a graphics video card utility that quickly provides the essential information regarding the GPU.......

12. Mesa

Mesa Mesa is a software library for 3D computer graphics that provides a generic Khronos-compliant OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms.......

13. Dxtory

Dxtory Dxtory is a movie capture tool only for DirextX/OpenGL application.In order to acquire data from Surface Memory directly, It operates very much at high speed.Arbitrary cropping and free scaling are supported by hardware.......

14. CreaToon

CreaToon CreaToon is a free easy to use animation program. It is different from other programs however, because you don't draw the objects in the program, it is a cutout based animation program. What that means is you make the parts in something like Gimp or Inkscape, and then you import......

15. GLiv

GLiv GLiv is an OpenGL image viewer. Image loading is done via Gdk-pixbuf bundled with GTK+-2.6, rendering with OpenGL, and the graphical user interface uses GTK+ with GtkGLExt. GLiv is very fast and smooth at rotating, panning, and zooming if you have an OpenGL accelerated graphics board. It supports thumbnails and......