fett on 7/12/2003 at 04:16
I'm probably not the only one having problems getting the demo to run but I'm probably the first who's dumb enough to start a thread over it.
What the hell is a pixel shader? I've got a GeForce 4x and I'm getting an error message at startup that says 'Deus Ex requires a Graphics card with a Pixel Shader 1.1 or higher.'
Is this some mysterious 'console slang' that I've never heard[/sarcasim]? I can't find any reference to such a thing in the help files that are floating around.
Crion on 7/12/2003 at 04:21
Is the GeForce 4 an MX version? If so, you're shit out of luck.
fett on 7/12/2003 at 14:08
Yep. Oh well - that's one more sale ISA just lost out on...I guess it's all the same to them. I'm sure they'll make it up in console sales to 11 year old pre-pubescents.
We're a bunch of chumps.
heywood on 7/12/2003 at 14:37
Relax and think about it this way:
In another year, you'll be able to buy a new video card for <$200 that bests the performance of today's leading edge cards, the patch(es) will be out, the game will be $20-30 instead of $50, and the boards won't be full of negativity any more.
Muzman on 7/12/2003 at 14:51
Nvidia really ought to be taken out and beaten for naming a GForce 2 with a couple of extras a Gforce 4 MX
ESpark on 7/12/2003 at 18:07
A Geforce4 ain't an MX card. A geforce 4 MX is an MX card.
Chalk it up to reading the system requirements. If I remember correctly, the system reqs on the box specifically say an MX card is NOT part of the minimum.
fett on 8/12/2003 at 05:59
Er...I don't *have* the box:
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having problems getting the
demo ...
I just don't think it's too much to ask them to make it work on a relatively common graphics card. I guess as long as it works on the X-Box they could give a shit (apparently).
Bah! Bah I say!
CPLHicks39 on 8/12/2003 at 06:30
That would mean getting rid of the normal mapping and dynamic lighting and having to do non-DX9 models. Your card is a slightly upgraded version of three and a half year old technology, if you want to play a next-gen game it's time to upgrade.
heywood on 8/12/2003 at 15:05
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Originally posted by CPLHicks39 That would mean getting rid of the normal mapping and dynamic lighting and having to do non-DX9 models. Your card is a slightly upgraded version of three and a half year old technology, if you want to play a next-gen game it's time to upgrade.
DX:IW is a DirectX 8.1 game. The XBox uses a GeForce 3 core, which isn't a DX9 core.
Yeah, they couldn't have done dynamic lighting if they wanted to support cards based on the GeForce 2 and original Radeon architectures. But for PC gamers, dynamic lighting just isn't worth the performance hit anyway. Higher resolutions, more detail, and better frame rates would have done more to sell people on this game's graphics than dynamic lighting.
