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TGEA on older hardware

by Derry Bryson · in Torque Game Engine · 07/23/2007 (8:22 pm) · 3 replies

Does TGEA support turning off the more advanced features so that it can run on older hardware like
that supported by TGE? I would like to both support older machines and have the option to support
the newer rendering features of TGEA, is that possible?

I know the TGEA demo won't run on anything without pixel shaders 1.0 (or something like that), but
can that be turned off?

Thanks in advance.

#1
07/24/2007 (3:45 am)
No, it sure doesn't. =/

You'd either need to do it yourself (I'm not sure it's been done before) or work with TGE and add the "Modernization Kit". That kit brings some shaders to TGE (though it's not related to TGEA).
#2
08/04/2007 (2:34 pm)
That's too bad. It would really be nice to support both those with older hardware and newer hardare.
#3
08/04/2007 (5:48 pm)
And if you build tgea with a recent directx sdk will only run with shader model 2 cards