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T&L - Is It Essential?
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Mr. Hyperbole
understated cynic
Alricins said:
Perhaps someone can help me, then.
I have a HP, Intel card is something like 82845G(or something very similar), which does not support T&L. The game loads(however slowly with choppy sound).
I am able to select options, then the game loads. But it never gets past the "DONE" stage(and I mean I sat there for nearly 10 minutes waiting). If I then try to bring up the taskmanager to exit, the game gives me a message about the graphic driver(I tried taking a screen shot, but computer crashed at that point), and shuts down.
I have been afraid to try it again because of what it might do to my comp...
Mr. Hyperbole
understated cynic
JDexter said:What should it do to your computer?
Seriously, don't worry, upgrade your driver and try again.
To do that search with Google for the card's name + driver, download, execute, reboot, enjoy.
I tried to upgrade the damned thing last week when I discovered what T&L was, but it said that I had the latest version.
Edit: I forgot to mention, when I exited game once, the computer didn't crash but when it sent me back to the desktop, everything was hugely magnified.
Pounder
Phaethon was here
This is what it looks like without T&L.
Michelangelo
Prince
That doesn't look very promising for me.
baboon
Warlord
Some people seem to think T&L is some sort of feature you can do without. That's just not true, the graphics of the game are supposed to be 'made' by your videocard. If you don't have T&L your CPU has to do the job and that thing just can't do that. That's because he has other things to do AND the job by the videocard is pretty hard. The videocard is a specialist in that kind of math, and remember, a graphic chip of a decent videocard is more complex than a cpu.
baboon
Warlord
double post, sorry
baboon
Warlord
Pounder said:This is what it looks like without T&L.
haha, well the eyes and mouth are pretty important if you want to know if they like you
Civ4 does run without T&L, technically, but the result will be as in the above screenshots.
You will have:
1) Completely black terrain.
2) Non-working leader animations
3) Non-working minimap
You may also have:
Other black textures, missing fonts (no text) or complete refusal of the game to start.
You will have:
1) Completely black terrain.
2) Non-working leader animations
3) Non-working minimap
You may also have:
Other black textures, missing fonts (no text) or complete refusal of the game to start.
The Intel integrated graphics chipsets don't support T&L. "Software T&L" is an euphemism for not having T&L. I don't have the game box to check what it says, but the requirements are a video card with hardware T&L support.
Solver said:
i thought however that no intel have hardware TL yet trip did say that he ran the game fine using the intergrated solution from intel, osi was wondering if it was the 9xx series which says it has software TL where as the other intel internal "cards" dont even say that
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