Force 1.1 pixel shader??

[tooot2008]

hello all ,

greeetings to all the members of the forum.

i have battlefield 2142 running on these specs:

-Nvidia FX5200 128MB
-Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
-768 MB RAM

now i know it is a low-end PC that it doesn't run BF quite perfectly but i was just wondering if there is a way to force running the game using 1.1 pixel shader as i believe it will significantly increase the performance? anyone can help?

thanks

[OriJuice]

It may be alright; if anything a pixel shader will lower your performance. Given your RAM you may be fine; but that depends if your card supports Pixel Shading or not. From what I understand a pixel shader serves to manipulate a pixel, usually to apply an effect on an image, for example; realism, bump mapping, shadows, and explosion effects. If you are shading for those than I can see it lowering. If you want to shade them for just base texture and take away from the default BF shader then I don't see why it wouldn't work.

[tooot2008]

It may be alright; if anything a pixel shader will lower your performance. Given your RAM you may be fine; but that depends if your card supports Pixel Shading or not. From what I understand a pixel shader serves to manipulate a pixel, usually to apply an effect on an image, for example; realism, bump mapping, shadows, and explosion effects. If you are shading for those than I can see it lowering. If you want to shade them for just base texture and take away from the default BF shader then I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Yes,it definitely increases performance.Hitman Blood Money for example used to run quite poorly on my FX5200 and that was because Eidos had locked the game on PS 2.0,however,after they released the patch,a little option was added to the config that allowed the use of PS 1.1 which was so helpful to low-end cards owners such as me.So , surely if there is a way to force all textures in BF2142 toPS 1.1,it will enhance the speed of the game significantly . Only thing is I dont know if it is even possible to do that?

and as for what version of PS FX5200 has , well it says on the box that FX5200 supports PS 2.0 , which is actually BULLSH*T if u ask me.But it manages fine with PS 1.1.btw, I tried deleting Shaders_client.zip in BF folder but it didnt work ?hope any one has and idea?

sry for the late reply btw..no internet connection..