Supported features on video cards
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Someone bought my son a copy of "LEGO Star Wars" for the PC. Of course, none of the kit we have has an advanced enough video card to play it. Is there a way to find out (without installing a card and trying it) whether a card supports a particular feature/version (in this case PixelShaders 1.1) of DirectX? NB: I know about the DXCAPS stuff, but I want to make sure I buy the right card; I also don't want to spend a huge amount of money, having seen some cards for more than 100 UKP... in the frame at the moment are GEFORCE FX 5200 ATI RADEON 9550 GEFORCE 6200 I've looked on the NVidia website, but that didn't help much, and the Eidos site wasn't exactly useful. Is there a 'supported features' list available?
Steve S Developer for hire
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Someone bought my son a copy of "LEGO Star Wars" for the PC. Of course, none of the kit we have has an advanced enough video card to play it. Is there a way to find out (without installing a card and trying it) whether a card supports a particular feature/version (in this case PixelShaders 1.1) of DirectX? NB: I know about the DXCAPS stuff, but I want to make sure I buy the right card; I also don't want to spend a huge amount of money, having seen some cards for more than 100 UKP... in the frame at the moment are GEFORCE FX 5200 ATI RADEON 9550 GEFORCE 6200 I've looked on the NVidia website, but that didn't help much, and the Eidos site wasn't exactly useful. Is there a 'supported features' list available?
Steve S Developer for hire
(Grrr... can't modify my message for some reason...) In addition to the AGP cards, I'm also considering PCI Express : GEFORCE 6200TC PCI: NVIDIA FX5200 Ideally, there's someone out there who has one of these and can tell me that LEGO SW actually works! Annoyingly, I opted for the Intel graphics option (at no 'extra' cost) rather than the NVIDIA when I bought my laptop :(
Steve S Developer for hire
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(Grrr... can't modify my message for some reason...) In addition to the AGP cards, I'm also considering PCI Express : GEFORCE 6200TC PCI: NVIDIA FX5200 Ideally, there's someone out there who has one of these and can tell me that LEGO SW actually works! Annoyingly, I opted for the Intel graphics option (at no 'extra' cost) rather than the NVIDIA when I bought my laptop :(
Steve S Developer for hire
Hi Steve S, I am using a Geforce fx 5200 AGP card now and i find it quite good. Although it is a "old" card, i can play "doom 3", "Half life 2" and "Lord Of The Ring Battle for middle earth 2" with it. Not on full Detail settings of course. I'll ask i few friends of mine that are runnig the same screen card if they've played "LEGO SW". But i can't see why it wouldn't. But i'll get back to you.
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
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Hi Steve S, I am using a Geforce fx 5200 AGP card now and i find it quite good. Although it is a "old" card, i can play "doom 3", "Half life 2" and "Lord Of The Ring Battle for middle earth 2" with it. Not on full Detail settings of course. I'll ask i few friends of mine that are runnig the same screen card if they've played "LEGO SW". But i can't see why it wouldn't. But i'll get back to you.
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
TVM. I managed to find a PDF on MSDN which details various chipsets and the feature support for DX9, which told me that yes, it will work. It's not the fastest card, and turning on all the game video features does slow it down, even on a P4 2.xGHz 1.5GB RAM system, but it's playable, which was the main thing.
Steve S Developer for hire