AppleSauce wrote on 2022-10-20, 14:26:
How come the installer differentiates direct3d and powervr then?
Wipeout 2097 was a PowerVR Extreme rated title. That meant really high compatibility and good performance. Direct3D titles are alittle hit and miss on the PowerVR cards, and many games require you to select the right settings in the drivers. I'd love to be proven wrong, but from what I remember when I tested this back 10 years ago, the PowerVR install option is an optimized executable for PowerVR cards, but it's still running in Direct3D.
I'm pretty sure the hardware check could be removed with hex editing, like I did with Destruction Derby (and have been done on other bundled games by others).