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Quote:Original post by dirk1
anyway to continue what im saying is that the game does know how to do graphics with my card it just cant locate the right shader package and im not saying cod4 should be patched backwards to make older system users happy.
im trying to find out how i can work around shader package detection

I'm confused. What do you think a "shader package" is?

Quote:Original post by WanMaster

Quote:Original post by Sneftel

Quote:Original post by dirk1
anyway to continue what im saying is that the game does know how to do graphics with my card it just cant locate the right shader package and im not saying cod4 should be patched backwards to make older system users happy.
im trying to find out how i can work around shader package detection

I'm confused. What do you think a "shader package" is?

I translated it as "the game requires shader model n, and my card support this, but for some reason the software detects shader model n - 1". Not that the shader model is the only thing that matters of course.

Quote:Original post by Sneftel

Quote:Original post by WanMaster

Quote:Original post by Sneftel

Quote:Original post by dirk1
anyway to continue what im saying is that the game does know how to do graphics with my card it just cant locate the right shader package and im not saying cod4 should be patched backwards to make older system users happy.
im trying to find out how i can work around shader package detection

I'm confused. What do you think a "shader package" is?

I translated it as "the game requires shader model n, and my card support this, but for some reason the software detects shader model n - 1". Not that the shader model is the only thing that matters of course.

So let's say that you skip the check, and cause the game to think--incorrectly--that the video card can do a particular thing. What should happen when the game actually tries to do that thing?

Actually, let's put some specifics in there. One thing your video card can't do is texture lookups in the vertex program. Suppose a vertex program tries to do a texture lookup. What should happen?

Quote:Original post by WanMaster

Quote:Original post by Sneftel

Quote:Original post by dirk1
anyway to continue what im saying is that the game does know how to do graphics with my card it just cant locate the right shader package and im not saying cod4 should be patched backwards to make older system users happy.
im trying to find out how i can work around shader package detection

I'm confused. What do you think a "shader package" is?

I translated it as "the game requires shader model n, and my card support this, but for some reason the software detects shader model n - 1". Not that the shader model is the only thing that matters of course.

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Erm, you're not asking me, right?

Quote:Original post by dirk1
well not particularly saying that my card would support that request for shader package "n1"

Quote:but i know for a fact that the alpha en glow rendering methods used in game could be set to 0 in which case my card would be able to run the game smoothly

Quote:and i should then rather say work around shader package detection to get in game and from there i can work in such a manner that i would have visually acceptable renderings and good to decent framerate

Quote:but for example at a friends pc who also did not meet the minimum requirements for cod 4 i did manage to get it working without a problem how is this possible?

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Quote:Original post by dirk1
well not particularly saying that my card would support that request for shader package "n1"

Okay, now I'm confused too.

Quote:but i know for a fact that the alpha en glow rendering methods used in game could be set to 0 in which case my card would be able to run the game smoothly

What does that mean, "setting the alpha rendering to zero"? Just because you switch something off in the settings, doesn't mean the software no longer depends on it. Furthermore, the game's settings don't translate directly to video card capabilities. Who knows what this "alpha" is used for, perhaps it's required for something completely unrelated to the graphics, like GPGPU.

Quote:and i should then rather say work around shader package detection to get in game and from there i can work in such a manner that i would have visually acceptable renderings and good to decent framerate

Well, if you still insist on trying, find out where the settings are normally stored (file, registry) and create or change them. But you'll be on your own.

Quote:but for example at a friends pc who also did not meet the minimum requirements for cod 4 i did manage to get it working without a problem how is this possible?

You got lucky.