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Old Shadermodel on new Graphic cards?

January 4, 2013 8:43:00 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Hy guys,

as I am unable to run the game (after 2 months) I did some more research.

I found a post on the steam forums that this game uses Shader Model 3.0 my graphic card (ATI Radeon 5800 series) supports Shader Model 5.0.

Now I cant find a way to tell if

A: The Radeon is downwards compatible

B: If this game can be run with Shader Model 5.0

Has anyone information about this? Maybe a workaround on how to run the game with a ATI Radeon 5800 series?

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mqpiffle
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Reply #1 January 4, 2013 11:21:59 AM
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My Radeon HD 6700 has Shader Model 5.0 and game runs just fine.

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Reply #2 January 6, 2013 5:02:31 PM
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usually video cards and their drivers are BACKWARD compatible, meaning that they support older versions of the features, and I have a ati6850 ,a ati5850 & a ati4850, and all cards run fe AND even WOM without issues for me, but I do set the drivers to high performace settings.

harpo

 

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Reply #3 January 9, 2013 11:08:34 AM
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Dang... there goes another hope of getting the game to run :-/

 

Still thx for the answeres

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Reply #4 January 9, 2013 4:19:40 PM
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aerouge, what are the rest of your system specs?

I have run fe on xp & win7 32 & 64 bit, cpus range from a core2duo t6400 (2ghz w 4gb ram intel integrated video on a laptop) core2duo e4500 @ 4.5ghz 4gb ram (xp32bit geforce 420) i7 2600k 32gb ram(w7 ult w ati6850) and even a amd x2 6000+ 4gb ram(xp 32 bit geforce 8800gt) the amd was the most sluggish between turns such that even the laptop beat it even though the amd was supposed to be a 3 ghz desktop cpu dual core with ddr2 800 ram.

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Reply #5 January 9, 2013 8:17:13 PM
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His specs are in his other thread. I just read it and instead of replying to the old one I'll add this here:

You said you changed your regional settings to English, but did you change your actual "location" to an English speaking country? Or your language for non-Unicode applications to English? I switch between Japanese and English a lot and sometimes a game requires all three to match in order for it to not crash (surprisingly common issue and most devs don't seem to care about fixing it). I notice I didn't see that fix he mentioned in the 1.1 or 1.12 notes so it still may be your issue.

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Reply #6 February 12, 2013 4:56:40 PM
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Hi Sanati,

sorry for not answering so long. I considered this thread done after realising that it probabbly wasnt the shaders and just monitored my old thread.

 

As to answere you question: Yes I did change EVERYTHING. Despite reinstalling as a native english windows (so "Program Files" folder still was called "Programme" (German Install)). Funny thing is the game runs flawless on a machine from a friend of my who has basically the same OS install (because I did it) but a different hardware setup and it runs fine there. So I think the problems are not located in the language settings but somewhere in a strange combination of Hardware and maybe OS settings. Still I cant get it to run.

 

@harpo99999 & Others trying to help and needing system specs: I´d like to referr to my old thread:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/437433

Still everything pretty much unchanged despite some driver updates since then (i.e. newest ATI Drivers)

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