From 4c22e6387d251a4c4e315edcf9f50b5780238edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helios747 <aserna3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:18:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [Video] Warn when booting a bounding box game on an
 unsupported GPU

---
 Source/Core/VideoCommon/MainBase.cpp | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/MainBase.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/MainBase.cpp
index 659eec31b3..d39b8c6fa9 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/MainBase.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/MainBase.cpp
@@ -120,9 +120,6 @@ u32 VideoBackendBase::Video_GetQueryResult(PerfQueryType type)
 
 u16 VideoBackendBase::Video_GetBoundingBox(int index)
 {
-  if (!g_ActiveConfig.backend_info.bSupportsBBox)
-    return 0;
-
   if (!g_ActiveConfig.bBBoxEnable)
   {
     static bool warn_once = true;
@@ -133,6 +130,17 @@ u16 VideoBackendBase::Video_GetBoundingBox(int index)
     return 0;
   }
 
+  if (!g_ActiveConfig.backend_info.bSupportsBBox)
+  {
+    static bool warn_once = true;
+    if (warn_once)
+      PanicAlertT("This game requires bounding box emulation to run properly but your graphics "
+                  "card or its drivers do not support it. As a result you will experience bugs or "
+                  "freezes while running this game.");
+    warn_once = false;
+    return 0;
+  }
+
   Fifo::SyncGPU(Fifo::SyncGPUReason::BBox);
 
   AsyncRequests::Event e;