I remember reading somewhere about a possible emulator for an appropriate graphics card. My friend is trying to play on a computer where she isn't able to change from her Intel(R) 82845G. Does anyone know if there is a way to do this?
on a side note.. why the heck does SE only allow ATI and Radeon chipsets? seems rather.. odd..
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Minimally, a video card must accept commands to control the colors of each pixel on the monitor. A typical card also has some extra functionality that that allows it to do certain common calculations on it's own hardware, taking workload off of the CPU. An nVidia or ATI card does a great deal of work by offering a complex rendering pipeline of the calulations that are repeated thousands of times per second when mapping a modeled 3D world to pixel colors on the screen.
An emulator driver would just reroute this work back to the processor, and in the case of any video game released in the last few years, it would likely cripple the system's available processor and memory resources to where the game would be unplayable.
An Intel integrated graphics chipset simply does not have the hardware necessary to perform certain 3D calculations required by modern 3d graphics engines. Nvidia and ATI are the only graphics processor manufacturers making video cards that do.
Hope that all made sense.
Your friend needs a nicer computer. Sorry.
An emulator driver would just reroute this work back to the processor, and in the case of any video game released in the last few years, it would likely cripple the system's available processor and memory resources to where the game would be unplayable.
An Intel integrated graphics chipset simply does not have the hardware necessary to perform certain 3D calculations required by modern 3d graphics engines. Nvidia and ATI are the only graphics processor manufacturers making video cards that do.
Hope that all made sense.
Your friend needs a nicer computer. Sorry.
Your friend needs to disable the chipset graphics before installing the video card or else he'll just be greeted with a black screen, shouldn't be a problem.
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My friend is trying to play on a computer where she isn't able to change from her Intel(R) 82845G.
Is there any expansion slots in that PC? At the very least you should have a PCI slot or if you're lucky an AGP slot that you can put an add-on card into.
I know the program you're talking about. I've used it on my laptop with an integrated video card and while the game doesn't look anywhere near as good as it does on my desktop PC, it does allow you to play it.
I'm at work now, but I'll post more info on the program when I get home and have a chance to dig up the link to the install.
I'm at work now, but I'll post more info on the program when I get home and have a chance to dig up the link to the install.
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