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Barron Hammerstrike
Minmatar Intergang
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Posted - 2011.01.31 16:58:00 -
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Bump for an important issue. I think it's becoming painfully obvious that it isn't strictly a hardware issue
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Cpt Shinji
Gallente No-Mercy Black Watch.
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Posted - 2011.02.01 11:05:00 -
[62]
Bump :[
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Barron Hammerstrike
Minmatar Intergang
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Posted - 2011.02.02 18:03:00 -
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Just because we have no faces doesn't mean our voices won't be heard!
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Boonaki
Caldari Focused Annihilation Detrimental Imperative
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Posted - 2011.02.02 18:53:00 -
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For the Intel video card people, the problem is Intel stops supporting their cards via updated drivers. You can buy a brand new notebook like an Eee PC, and the drivers will be from 2008.
It's not CCP's fault, it's Intel discontinuing support on products that are still sold.
We're pretty much screwed.
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Cpt Shinji
Gallente No-Mercy Black Watch.
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Posted - 2011.02.03 00:41:00 -
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Originally by: Boonaki For the Intel video card people, the problem is Intel stops supporting their cards via updated drivers. You can buy a brand new notebook like an Eee PC, and the drivers will be from 2008.
It's not CCP's fault, it's Intel discontinuing support on products that are still sold.
We're pretty much screwed.
But that doesn't explain why mine doesn't work :/ I don't have an intel video card.. and I get the exact same problem.
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Barron Hammerstrike
Minmatar Intergang
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Posted - 2011.02.03 16:36:00 -
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Edited by: Barron Hammerstrike on 03/02/2011 16:38:18 I don't have an intel graphics card either and really now the issue is more about letting it be known that a lot of us (even if a statistical minority) have been hosed for no reason other than what appears to be the almighty dollar. My machine is old, I admit it, but these latest revisions are just too buggy
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Boonaki
Caldari Focused Annihilation Detrimental Imperative
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Posted - 2011.02.04 12:19:00 -
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Originally by: Barron Hammerstrike Edited by: Barron Hammerstrike on 03/02/2011 16:38:18 I don't have an intel graphics card either and really now the issue is more about letting it be known that a lot of us (even if a statistical minority) have been hosed for no reason other than what appears to be the almighty dollar. My machine is old, I admit it, but these latest revisions are just too buggy
What video card do you have? Can convo me in game and I can help you as much as possible.
Spent allot of time talking to the GM's to find out it was intels lack of support on their drivers.
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dreada0
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Posted - 2011.02.06 12:31:00 -
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Edited by: dreada0 on 06/02/2011 12:35:44 Hi all, I have the same problem as above. Acer AspireOne D150 with the Mobile Intel 945GM chipset.
Don't most netbooks use these Mobile Intel chipsets? If that's the case, then CCP have basically locked out many netbook players with the new character selector - why didnt they include some "low graphics" option suitable for the unsupported Intel chipsets?
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Lork Niffle
Gallente External Hard Drive
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Posted - 2011.02.06 13:35:00 -
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Originally by: dreada0 for the unsupported Intel chipsets?
Intel are removing support for them, they are really poor chips even for their time and were designed to provide basic graphic support for the system for video output.
Intel are focusing on their new line the Intel 4500 and up. ------------------------------------- The system issues man. |
Mirabi Tiane
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Posted - 2011.02.06 13:40:00 -
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...Since when did people start expecting netbooks to be suitable for 3D gaming?
By the way, I managed to get through the entire character creation process on Linux after eleven hours of setup. _____________________________ ¬DesuSig |
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dreada0
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Posted - 2011.02.06 14:17:00 -
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I guess I just expected CCP to continue catering for low-end and hi-end systems; I admit I don't know how the game architecture works, but did they really need to raise the bar by that much for *everyone*, low-end and high-end players??
Anyways just came across the following, pity it was sufficienty communicated so we knew in advance.
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=800
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1396298
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Boonaki
Caldari Focused Annihilation Detrimental Imperative
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Posted - 2011.02.07 20:11:00 -
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Originally by: Mirabi Tiane ...Since when did people start expecting netbooks to be suitable for 3D gaming?
By the way, I managed to get through the entire character creation process on Linux after eleven hours of setup.
Some of us run 3+ accounts, great when you can pay for them with ISK. Run 1-2 on your main computer, can run others on cheaper $250 laptops, this wont be the case once Incarna comes around.
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Quintus Varro
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Posted - 2011.02.08 11:39:00 -
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I have the same issues. I did get a good response to my petition though, after the work around suggestions. They said it was under discussion and that a patch was being mooted, with a temporary solution of randomly generated avatars so we don't get locked out. My hope is that this will happen. Randomly generated toons would suit me fine, at least until a permanent fix is found, or I upgrade my hardware, something I am loathe to do currently, as my current machine runs Eve just fine.
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Barron Hammerstrike
Minmatar Intergang
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Posted - 2011.02.08 15:10:00 -
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Is it possible to upgrade the graphics card on a Dell Inspiron laptop to one that will run the creator? My current card is an ATI radeon 9600 turbo
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Royally
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Posted - 2011.02.10 11:47:00 -
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I use a Geforce 6100 Yes, old ****zle XD however i can use the character creator with no issues at all at low shader settings, both fullscreen and windowed mode
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Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2011.02.10 11:54:00 -
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Originally by: Royally I use a Geforce 6100 Yes, old ****zle XD however i can use the character creator with no issues at all at low shader settings, both fullscreen and windowed mode
What did you set your shared video memory (I assume it's set in the BIOS) to? Any OS and NVidia driver version info? |
Royally
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Posted - 2011.02.10 12:11:00 -
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Edited by: Royally on 10/02/2011 12:14:08 I'll update when i get home and can check the specifics, but I'm running windows vista and my RAM is only about 800 ish mb effective (supposedly 1 gigabyte) on an amd athlon 3500+ (so about 2.2 ghz) I did expand my virtual memory way above whats recommended, as I'm stuck with only one gig ram atm and it was an effective workaround, will update on those numbers when i'm home.
All in all, I'd say my computer system is pretty crappy to run any game thats recent, especially EVE, yet for some reason I can go with it just fine^^ (altough I do have to say I tone down my graphics)
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Goriel Maahn
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Posted - 2011.02.16 11:39:00 -
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Hi,
I got the character creation tool running with my Intel 945GM Chipset. It was a bit tricky and slow but at least I could create a new portrait.
As the Intel 945 family does not support the required shader version I was checking the web for a software simulation of the shader with DirectX. There is a solution by Transgaming, it is called SwiftShader 3. I was downloading the demo version, installed the DLL and created my portrait. Then I reinstalled the original DirectX driver back for playing.
You can find the DLL on the homepage of Transgaming www.transgaming.com.
I hope that helps.
Regards,
Goriel
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pocketbattleship
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Posted - 2011.02.17 17:57:00 -
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Could you explain how you installed the new dll? Did you copy it to the CCP directx folder and remove the normal directx?
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Goriel Maahn
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Posted - 2011.02.17 21:56:00 -
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Yes of course. I performed following steps
1.) taking the ownership of the d3d9.dll from C:\Windows\System32, otherwise you can't touch it. 2.) renaming it to d3d9_original.dll 3.) copying the swiftshader d3d9.dll to C:\Windows\System32
My operating system is Windows 7, so I had to make sure that the security permissions were properly set.
After installing the swiftshader d3d9.dll I was starting Eve. For character creation it is recommended to set the texture and shading quality to lowest before starting. When your character creation is finished, you could simply increase the shading quality in order to make a good snapshot. It takes a lot of time for rendering with high settings.
To play Eve and flying around in space just copy the original dll back to d3d9.dll and start the game.
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pocketbattleship
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Posted - 2011.02.18 18:59:00 -
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Thanks, that was very helpful, I understand what I'm doing now. However, I'm running into a problem with taking ownership of the original d3d9. When I try to change its name windows says I don't have permission, and when I try to change the permissions on the file it says I don't have permission to do that. How did you get around this problem? I am on an administrator account, so I should be able to do anything to the file.
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pocketbattleship
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Posted - 2011.02.18 23:45:00 -
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Nevermind, I figured it out and that worked great... low quality shaders and all of course, but at least I have a portrait now.
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