TGEA client on a laptop without 3D?
by Arcanor · in Hardware Issues · 07/17/2007 (12:16 pm) · 1 replies
I have a relatively recent (about 1 year old) Dell Latitude D610 laptop that does not even attempt run the TGEA demo application, however the TGE demo app runs just fine.
I wonder is there a way to "turn off" shader support (and thus the requirement for a graphics card that handles it) in the TGEA client, so I can use my laptop to connect to a remote TGEA server in some sort of "low quality graphics" mode? I guess I'm talking about a software rendering compatibility mode for TGEA?
Or alternatively, is it possible to connect to a TGEA server using a TGE client and interact with it more or less "normally" but without the fancy graphics?
I wonder is there a way to "turn off" shader support (and thus the requirement for a graphics card that handles it) in the TGEA client, so I can use my laptop to connect to a remote TGEA server in some sort of "low quality graphics" mode? I guess I'm talking about a software rendering compatibility mode for TGEA?
Or alternatively, is it possible to connect to a TGEA server using a TGE client and interact with it more or less "normally" but without the fancy graphics?
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You can try to use a software shader. I've never used one but from what I hear they are painfully slow.
Here's a link to the SwiftShader demo: http://www.cedega.com/license.php?swiftshader=1
You basically just drag and drop the D3D8.DLL and D3D9.DLL files provided into the directory of the game that requires shader support.
Expect this (if it even works for TGEA) to be agonizingly slow.