Progammable Shaders, essential?

by **Onasaki** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:22 am

Hi, so a friend of mine pointed me out to this game and I was trying to attempt to get it to work. Sadly, however, my computer's video card is too old, and does not support prgrammable shaders.

I was wondering, if there was a client, or something I might be able to do on my end to get the game to run. If not, well, figured I'd ask anyway!

Thanks!

by **loftar** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:14 am

Programmable shading is pretty important to how the graphics engine works, so if someone managed to produce a client that didn't require them, I'd be impressed.

Just for the record, though, what is your graphics card? It could very well be that you're just using outdated drivers.

by **Onasaki** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:21 am

It's an integrated card on my laptop's motherboard. Which is from 2009. I couldn't really tell you what it was, outside of crap. My drivers are for the most part updated. I think. But thanks for the response! I'll double check, and try again.

by **loftar** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:55 pm

Onasaki wrote:Which is from 2009.

I really have to say it sounds strange that there would be GPUs from 2009 without programmable shading.

by **APXEOLOG** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:19 pm

loftar wrote:
Onasaki wrote:Which is from 2009.

I really have to say it sounds strange that there would be GPUs from 2009 without programmable shading.

Integrated GPU's can be really shitty

by **loftar** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:10 pm

APXEOLOG wrote:Integrated GPU's can be really shitty

No doubt, but I'm not aware of any manufactured in or even close to 2009 that didn't have programmable shading.

by **Serin** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 11:26 pm

well mine is an integrated intel and it apparently lacks the function as well, it runs world of warcraft but not the custom clients. when i run a custom client it gives me that error, it also throws that error up on the antialiasing setting when its turned on in the default client. im guessing clients tend to have that on by default

by **loftar** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:16 am

Serin wrote:well mine is an integrated intel and it apparently lacks the function as well

If you managed to start the default client at all, then it does not lack programmable shading.

by **Serin** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:33 am

"Caused by: haven.GLConfig$HardwareException: Graphics context does not support programmable shading." in the error made me think otherwise but the Default throws this when antialiasing is active and ONLY then (that ive seen)

while the custom clients throw this:

im not too good at understanding error messages

by **loftar** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:42 am

The fact that the default client at all launches means that your hardware and driver do support programmable shading. I certainly have no idea why a custom client would think differently, however.

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