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StormWingDelta

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My computer doesn't like shaders for some reason but tries to run the games anyways. Also a few of the newer games in the projects section aren't working for some reason.

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I have many ideas but need the help of others to find way to make use of them.

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Re: Well this is rather annoying. Any game made with a shader doesn't work.
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2012, 12:42:45 am »
So? I don't see a question or anything... ;D

My PC can't handle Crysis 2 at max and don't even think about recording it with PlayClaw/FRAPS. (Another random comment...)

Have you check if your graphics card supports shaders? You know they weren't always supported. Do you use the right driver for you card? Is it uptodate?
What OS are you using? Which SFML version are you using? Is this even related to SFML?
What games do not work?

Have you ever read this thread?
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Re: Well this is rather annoying. Any game made with a shader doesn't work.
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2012, 12:53:54 am »
So? I don't see a question or anything... ;D

My PC can't handle Crysis 2 at max and don't even think about recording it with PlayClaw/FRAPS. (Another random comment...)

Have you check if your graphics card supports shaders? You know they weren't always supported. Do you use the right driver for you card? Is it uptodate?
What OS are you using? Which SFML version are you using? Is this even related to SFML?
What games do not work?

Have you ever read this thread?

I already know my Graphics card hates shaders but as for being up to date I have no clue or how to update it for that matter.

OS is Windows XP.  Don't need SFML to run other people's games but I'm using the current one.

The two games that don't work are Nom! and moonman. The others work fine last I looked through them..

Never ran into this issue before so I'm at a lose for what to do and I can't exactly take my computer apart while being this clueless.
I have many ideas but need the help of others to find way to make use of them.

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Re: Well this is rather annoying. Any game made with a shader doesn't work.
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2012, 01:20:57 am »
See what graphics card you're having within your computer then go to the website of its vendor and look what the current driver version is, then compair it with your installed driver version. Also on the website of the vendor is probably written if your crad does support shaders.
You can also run DxDiag to get a detailed analysis of what you card is capable of, although since that tool is for DirectX it doesn't mean it's also supported by OpenGL.

As a developer it's quite a requirement to know what the underlaying hardware is and what it's capable of. And it's crusial to know its system and how one is able to change settings and drivers etc., i.e. you should actually know more about computers than the usual computer user does. ;)
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Re: Well this is rather annoying. Any game made with a shader doesn't work.
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2012, 01:24:50 am »
check what sf::Shader::isAvailable() returns
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