Pixel Shading

[minkster]

In any of rices new plugins, i cant use pixel shaders. i dont get it because my laptop was built with dx9 in it so i thought it met the requirements for pixel shaders. i keep getting an error and it says it will use best fit. arg someone help me out

 

[rcgamer]

your graphics card doesnt have pixel shaders capabilities. It is compatable with directx9 but isnt able to use the pixel shader technology.

 

[Nighty0]

only radeon 8500 (not sure), 9x00 and GF Ti & Fx

 

[Trotterwatch]

Yep, Radeon 8500 supports up to 1.4

 

[Nighty0]

Yep, Radeon 8500 supports up to 1.4

tnx for the info

 

[minkster]

arg....are laptop grahics cards more expensive if i want to upgrade

 

[sheik124]

some notebooks have unupgradeable GFX so its all dependent on your luck

 

[minkster]

damn do pixel shaders work better than limited stage combiners and high end combiners? just curious

 

[rcgamer]

yes for most games , there are some where you have to have it on 3 stage combiner though.

 

[minkster]

yes for most games , there are some where you have to have it on 3 stage combiner though.

thanks for the info maybe i shuld be using limited 3 stage combiner rather than limited 4 to get the most accurate results for myself

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

yes for most games , there are some where you have to have it on 3 stage combiner though.

So far, the only game that does display a beneficial difference with pixel shader is Goldeneye 007. Super Mario 64, Harvest Moon 64, Snowboard Kids and Snowboard Kids 2 probably won't display any differences with pixel shader and thus the high end combiner, limited 4 stage combiner and limited 3 stage combiner probably will be OK.

 

[Clements]

The pixel shader combiner was mainly to fix compatibility problems with the high-end cards, as DX7 type cards had much less issues using the other combiners. Same with S/W T&L, not needed for MX cards, but can help a lot with Ti/FX cards.

 

[Rice]

Pixel shader is much more accurate for complicated combiner modes in most big titles, GE, Zelda, PD, etc. If you want to compare, here are a few examples:

Zelda logo
Mario Tennis player shadow, and shadows in many other games
GE menus
Conker, the whole game

High end combiner or 2-stage combiner (manually configurated combiner settings) are OK to run these games, but not as beatiful as pixel shader.

 

[Qun Mang]

And to think the Nintendo 64 came out years before pixel shader technology in 3D cards for computers...

 

[minkster]

rice you are da man! o yeah and pixel shader sounds cool too lol