Vista - help !!! pixel or vertex shaders

11-02-2007

After I load the Sierra game "Joint Task Force" I receive the following error
msg "your graphics card does not support pixel shaders or vertex shaders" I
just bought a Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 with Windows Vista installed. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
--
RJ Runyan
FOB Marez
Mosul, Iraq

11-02-2007

"rj runyan" <rjrunyan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After I load the Sierra game "Joint Task Force" I receive the following
> error
> msg "your graphics card does not support pixel shaders or vertex shaders"
> I
> just bought a Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 with Windows Vista installed.
> Any
> help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If this machine has an integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics chip, like the one
I looked up online then it doesn't have any vertex, pixel shaders nor
transform and lighting in hardware and this will severely limit what games
will run on it.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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11-02-2007	#1 (permalink)
rj runyan n/a posts	help !!! pixel or vertex shaders After I load the Sierra game "Joint Task Force" I receive the following error msg "your graphics card does not support pixel shaders or vertex shaders" I just bought a Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 with Windows Vista installed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- RJ Runyan FOB Marez Mosul, Iraq
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11-02-2007	#2 (permalink)
Paul Smith n/a posts	Re: help !!! pixel or vertex shaders "rj runyan" <rjrunyan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A8D9CCAF-682D-4B91-ABBF-C430E920418F@xxxxxx Quote: > After I load the Sierra game "Joint Task Force" I receive the following > error > msg "your graphics card does not support pixel shaders or vertex shaders" > I > just bought a Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 with Windows Vista installed. > Any > help would be appreciated. Thanks. If this machine has an integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics chip, like the one I looked up online then it doesn't have any vertex, pixel shaders nor transform and lighting in hardware and this will severely limit what games will run on it. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail
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