What's better, having SM2 compliant drivers that allow us to play CoD4, among others, or having SM3 software that's slow enough to disable playing ANY SM3 games due to lack of processing power? Think about it
On 2 Dez, 10:04, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > Geez... you guys need to wake up. SS is good for evaluation purposes, > it has NO practical use for our hardware. SM3 graphics load is too > high for our cpus. Even SM2 is high already, think of CoD4... What we > really need is full OpenGL 1.5 support and SM2 compliance. Not some > phony SOFTWARE SM3 thingie. > > On 2 Dez, 09:13, Daniel PK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > its been a while since i've checked here :(( was getting raped by uni work! > > ...am quite astonished to hear abt this news :D man!!!!! this is great! if > > SS started a PS3.0 revolution...then maybe 3D Analyze's team would take the > > same step...MAYBE am saying :P if they do! then we'll witness a huge > > evolution in the gaming industry...especially on our side (IGP users) GMA950 > > users to be precise :P am gonna download this and give it a shot with what > > games i have here :) god speed! > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:47 AM, akoj akoz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > mad beast i have tried this new d3d9.dll in games like hitman 4 and > > > street fighter 4.as for hitman 4 if in the swiftshader config file if > > > you change the pixel and vertex shader version to 11 the game runs > > > fine at plable fps as when you lower the pixel and vertex shader > > > version in swiftshader it then reduces the processing to some extent > > > on cpu and due to this fps increase.but this case may not be true for > > > all games as for hitman 4 it needs ony shader model 1 to run properly > > > if any other game that requires only shader mode 2 or 3 to run then > > > this tweaking wont help as for eg.in street fighter 4 changing the > > > shader model to 2 and kepping pixel shader to 3 in switshader config > > > file will start the game but only cut scenes run and no other thing > > > are visible when both pixel and vertex shader are changed to 2 the > > > game starts with capcom and all such labels but after that there is > > > noting no visuals only black screen.shader model 3 version of > > > swiftshader will tend to use more of cpu than previous ones games > > > which only requires shader model 3 will only be runned by shader model > > > 3 capabilities of swshader changing which can cause normal crashing or > > > problems faced previously in shader model 2 cards so it wont be any > > > easy task to get playable fps in this new version of swiftshader. > > > > On Dec 1, 10:27 am, MAD_BEAST <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > heeeey Akoj > > > > im going to download it and see if it works as SW2.... > > > > yeah its true as far as i know Transgaming is the only co developing > > > > something like Swiftshader... well transgaming developed it > > > > -- > > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
