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I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
because of Pixel Shaders-
Can i emulate it?

Thanks in advance.

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:54:27 +0100, "Virgulilla" <virgulilla@ono.com>
wrote:

>I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
>because of Pixel Shaders-
>Can i emulate it?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>

um...

why not just buy a decent (but modest ) graphics card instead ?

John Lewis

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Virgulilla wrote:
> I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
> because of Pixel Shaders-
> Can i emulate it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

Yes in fact.

http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html

You can emulate the caps and also software rasterize any functions, but
it's best just to emulate the cap to force the game to run.

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"deimos" <deimos@localhost.net> wrote in message
news:33708nF3iq1mjU1@individual.net...
> Virgulilla wrote:
>> I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX
>> 440
>> because of Pixel Shaders-
>> Can i emulate it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
> Yes in fact.
>
> http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html
>
> You can emulate the caps and also software rasterize any functions, but
> it's best just to emulate the cap to force the game to run.

Software rasterization = slow performance

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No.

--
DaveW

"Virgulilla" <virgulilla@ono.com> wrote in message
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>I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
> because of Pixel Shaders-
> Can i emulate it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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You can. (In fact, people have been successful in running Doom 3 on
Voodoo5.) However, the end result will be slow, ugly as hell, or a
combination of both...

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It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Virgulilla" <virgulilla@ono.com> wrote in message
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> I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
> because of Pixel Shaders-
> Can i emulate it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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I'm not sure if a 5200 will result in faster gameplay...

A Geforce3 or Geforce4 Ti4200 will be a much better buy.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Santy Concepción" <SANTYCG*NO_SPAM*@terra.es> wrote in message
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> Why don't you buy a good but cheap card?
> You can get a Fx-5200 for about $50!

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You are correct. Good and cheap is not an FX5200 only cheap. G4 Ti4200 is a
better card.
"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure if a 5200 will result in faster gameplay...
>
> A Geforce3 or Geforce4 Ti4200 will be a much better buy.
>
> --
> "War is the continuation of politics by other means.
> It can therefore be said that politics is war without
> bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
>
>
> "Santy Concepción" <SANTYCG*NO_SPAM*@terra.es> wrote in message
> news:7VSzd.34960$oN1.60364@telenews.teleline.es...
>> Why don't you buy a good but cheap card?
>> You can get a Fx-5200 for about $50!
>
>

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:45:44 GMT, john.dsl@verizon.net (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:54:27 +0100, "Virgulilla" <virgulilla@ono.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
>>because of Pixel Shaders-
>>Can i emulate it?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
>um...
>
>why not just buy a decent (but modest ) graphics card instead ?
>
>John Lewis
>

Seems to be the only solution, as these f--- game companies drop
support for the older video hardware. Maybe it would be nice of some
of them to write games to the consumer's specifications instead of
their own.

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:25:06 -0600, deimos <deimos@localhost.net>
wrote:

>Virgulilla wrote:
>> I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
>> because of Pixel Shaders-
>> Can i emulate it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
>Yes in fact.
>
>http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html
>
>You can emulate the caps and also software rasterize any functions, but
>it's best just to emulate the cap to force the game to run.

Used this, but usually can't get past the opening splash screens and
intros, and anything else is unviewable. The only game I've played
that required Pixel Shader 1.1 was Star Wars, Republic Commando, which
ran nice without the advanced texturing.

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:56:01 GMT, Sam Hamwich <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>>Virgulilla wrote:
>>> I have the game Thief 3 and it doesn't work with my NVIDIA GFORCE 4 MX 440
>>> because of Pixel Shaders-
>>> Can i emulate it?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>

Just had a crazy thought. T3 is also out for XBox, right? Get an XBox
emulator for the PC and load the XBox image into it.
Might try it myself.

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