c.f. H'uru commits:
> commit e4e718e243
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 1 17:19:50 2013 -0500
>
> Bypass ATI Generic fudging with Radeon HD cards
> commit bbae6a76d7
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:02:08 2013 -0500
>
> We don't support 3dfx cards...
>
> Come on, man... They made some good cards, but they went out of business
> in 1999! Ain't nobody got time fo' dat.
> commit a30a326d17
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:06:19 2013 -0500
>
> We only support DirectX 9...
>
> If you have less than 11MB VRAM or need to use the ref implementation,
> then you are using a dinosaur and have no business even attempting to play
> this game.
> commit 544abef39e
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:41:56 2013 -0500
>
> Wow, those cards are old...
>
> Remove detection for cards that are don't support at LEAST DirectX 8.
> There's no way they would even be able to get past Direct3DCreate9, so we
> shouldn't need to worry about them... I hope.
> commit 9070d70e50
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 14:50:20 2013 -0700
>
> Lots of cleanups to hsG3DeviceDelector
> commit ac23835384
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 15:09:24 2013 -0700
>
> Get rid of obsolete readers/writes for device info
> commit fc67738ee8
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 15:50:10 2013 -0700
>
> Remove some obviously obsolete caps
> commit 60c544e1ff
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 29 23:42:20 2013 -0500
>
> Don't lazy-load D3D9.dll
>
> We already link against it, so that's just a waste of time. Also, cleanup
> some unneeded ddraw includes. Remember that in Direct3D9, all devices can
> render in windowed mode.
(cherry picked from commit 95ab8161f0)
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