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NVSDK effects

Started by Rickwi22 May 22, 2002 at 7:48 PM 2 replies 350+ views

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May 22, 2002 at 7:48 PM

I have the gotten the NVSDK to check out the effects and stuff, and I have a fairly decent graphics card, a GF2MX400, but almost 3/4 of the demos in the effects browser are grayed out and disabled, I really want to look at those effects even if they would run slowly on my computer, is there any way I can enable those effects to look at them? Some of the effects I cant understand why they would be discabled becuase they are fairly simple like "simple fog" , "explosions" and even "particle system". If you have encountered this problem please let me know if and how you fixed it, Thanks Alot Rickwi22

S1CA

May 23, 2002 at 5:12 AM

All of the effects which use pixel shaders won''t work on your graphics card - and those with vertex shaders need to be run in software vertex processing mode.

As for being able to run them albeit very slowly - get the DirectX 8 SDK - with that you''ll get the "reference rasteriser" which is a software rasteriser intended for testing features you don''t have hardware for. This is only intended for development *not* as a releaseable software rasteriser (which many people wrongly assume) which is why it''s only available in the DirectX SDK.

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com

Rickwi22

May 23, 2002 at 10:18 AM

I have the DX8 sdk, and have messed with pixel shaders in REF, but the NVSDK doesnt even give me an option to use REF.

S1CA

May 23, 2002 at 12:07 PM

Admittedly I have an older version of the NVEffectsBrowser, but take a look at the File menu when it starts up, the first three items I get are:

Hardware Device
Reference Device
Force Software Vertex Processing

works fine for me - tested on 3 machines. Ensure that the DirectX SDK is set to DEBUG mode in the control panel before trying the ref device.

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com

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