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Which graphic card is required to run TGEA

by Laurent Mrejen · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 05/02/2007 (5:31 am) · 9 replies

Hi,

I have a vaio with an intel GPU card. I installed on my laptop TorqueX and it works well but when I tried to run TGEA demo, it stops and gives me the message : "D3D is required. Make sure you've got the latest version of DIRECTX and your graphic card support shaders 1.0"

I know my graphic card supports Shader 2.0 and I have Installed DirectX 9.0c sdk and runtime.

Can anyone help me

Thank you in advance

Laurent Mrejen
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#1
05/02/2007 (5:48 am)
Intel cards are notorious for poor (gaming) performance as are laptops. The two combined isn't a good combination for a "next gen" engine.

Try updating the drivers for your graphics card if you can.

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#2
05/02/2007 (6:00 am)
To answer the question you posed in the title of your post; I would recommend an NVIDIA GeForce 6 or greater or an ATI equivalent. The engine will run on lower end video cards but not well enough for productive development. A decent CPU and a healthy dose of RAM wouldn't go astray either.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#3
05/02/2007 (6:26 am)
Before upgrading to a 8800, I used a 6800 Ultra and it was just fine in TGEA.

Torque Owner Simon Love
#4
05/02/2007 (7:12 am)
Also Make sure that the card you get has AT LEAST pixel shader 2.0 support.

I have an old ATI Radeon 8500 which only supports up to 1.4.

Torque 3D Owner Laurent Mrejen
#5
05/02/2007 (10:43 pm)
Ok thanks.

I've checked my graphic card and it can support as you said only shader model 1.X. That's too shame but it is life. I will find another way.

Tahnk you for your qucik answers

Torque Owner Vashner
#6
05/02/2007 (11:36 pm)
Your computer is like a Jedi's lightsaber. The more power it has the more power you have (looks over at the warm glow)...

Torque Owner DodongoXP
#7
05/03/2007 (1:15 am)
Here is a list of shader model 2 cards

NVIDIA:

Geforce FX 5500 Series
Geforce FX 5700 Series
Geforce FX 5900 Series
Geforce 6500 Series
Geforce 6600 Series
Geforce 6800 Series
Geforce 7600 Series
Geforce 7800 Series
Geforce 7900 Series
Geforce 7950 Series
Geforce 8800 Series

ATI:

Radeon 9500 Series
Radeon 9600 Series
Radeon 9700 Series
Radeon 9800 Series
Radeon X550 Series
Radeon X600 Series
Radeon X700 Series
Radeon X800 Series
Radeon X850 Series
Radeon X1550 Series
Radeon X1600 Series
Radeon X1650 Series
Radeon X1800 Series
Radeon X1900 Series
Radeon X1950 Series


i put out the office models as those always has partial support of the features of the bigger models ...


also you need the direct x 9.0 c runtime version equal or newer to the version of the dx sdk used to build TGEA ...and probably recent video drivers for your card

Cheers

Torque 3D Owner Laurent Mrejen
#8
05/03/2007 (3:28 am)
Thanks.

Even in my desktop, I don't have one of those cards. I will buy another computer next year.

Torque Owner Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick
#9
05/07/2007 (3:38 am)
Funny this is twice now I have seen people get this problem, I fixed it by updating DirectX (even though I had DirectX 9.0c)

EDIT: I noticed you have already done this, so I am not sure.