Civilization V Pixel Shader 2.0 Patch

[IFeelStupid]

Hi Ive been playing civ 4 for 4 years now so i decided to buy civ 5 on steam so i download it and get a black screen and i found out that i need PS 3.0 Where as i have PS 2.0 so i wanted to ask the community if they were willing to make a patch to enable PS 2.0.

 

[Aristos]

are you serious?

 

[IFeelStupid]

obviously

 

[Aristos]

I don't think that is possible for the community.

 

[Aristos]

just buy a PS3 card, I play this thing in a 9800GTX+ smoothly, and those are going for a few bucks as of now, so go for something like it. Easier than asking for the recoding of the shader model

 

[Zyxpsilon]

Try this, first!
But, if you really don't want to bother with 1000's+ of coding hours & a full course in DirectX SDK development... get a new video-card.
It's a lot cheaper in both time & money.

 

[The_J]

I don't think that is possible for the community.

This.


And seriously, if the card doesn't have Pixel Shader 3 support, then it's completely underpowered for the game. Such a card is then at minimum 5 or 6 years old, definitely 1 or 2 generations minimum behind the min specs. Buy a new one. 60€/$ and you're shortly behind min. specs, 80-90 and you should do relatively well (assuming the rest of the PC is able to handle the game).

 

[tokala]

It might be possible (see Oldblivion), and the x800 and upwards should be roughly on the performance level of a 2600, but those are indeed antiques these days

For ~50€/$ you will get a HD 4670/5550/5570 good enough for medium settings.
60€/$ will get you a HD4830/4850, which is literally "recommended"
And the GTX 460, which is apparently good enough for >30 fps @ 1920x1200 with everything maxed out, has almost come down to 100€/$