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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
[Re: Majelang]
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04/29/06 09:26
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Yes, if in the pc is no 3d video card, the engine starts without real(directX can make a virtual 3d hardware) 3d hardware. So after it's not good to show any 3d scenes. But for this, DirectX9.0c MUST be installed on your pc. You can install it on win 98se or higher.
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
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04/29/06 17:06
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Can 3DGStudio A6 create 2D game that is able to run on computer without 3D hardware card? For example, I want to put a text or a picture / sprite into the monitor and there is no any 3D object, how can 3DGStudio do it? Some notebook computers don't have 3D hardware card.
Thanks
From all my experiences with this..... NO
Because 75% of the time A6's weak mode just dosn't work and only older Version such as A5 could run on such a computer.
Because simply A5 didn't care about your hardware it used software rendering. A6 uses hardware rendering all the way.
I have allways thought for this very reason leaving Software Rendering out was bad  It would have been better to have it as a default.
Well good Luck...
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
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You're wrong TeutonicDarkness, I asked before two/three days conitec about that. But this thread is only in german. Just install DirectX9.0c on your pc and then you can run the game without 3d hardware. The 3d scenes will be also rendered, but very low. So you can only make 2d games, you can show panels + texts,....
Edit: You're also right TeutonicDarkness, a6 has no sofware renderer anymore. Before DX9.0c appears, you couldn't run games without a video card. But with DX9.0c you can run the game without 3d hardware.
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
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04/30/06 15:43
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You can run 2D games without 3d hardware, but you can't run 3d games without 3d hardware. This is very simple. So look, if this is a 3d game.
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
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04/30/06 17:15
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I think JCL said they were going to have a mode that would let it go back to A5, but he said that would be done after 6.4 was finished. Hope they get that done soon as I would love to do my 2d game with 3dgs as it would be much quicker then making my own 2d engine, which I'm doing to an extent now.
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
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You're wrong TeutonicDarkness, I asked before two/three days conitec about that. But this thread is only in german. Just install DirectX9.0c on your pc and then you can run the game without 3d hardware. The 3d scenes will be also rendered, but very low. So you can only make 2d games, you can show panels + texts,....
Edit: You're also right TeutonicDarkness, a6 has no sofware renderer anymore. Before DX9.0c appears, you couldn't run games without a video card. But with DX9.0c you can run the game without 3d hardware.
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Have you tested this personally?
The reason I ask is I have 
Now If you at least have a low grade 3D card it will run as said in low mode.
However After testing on 5 different systems with no card the Anwser is no ... Weak mode is Virtually useless.
Also On My Test Systems I can run a few other 3D Games ( As long as they don't use shaders) just not any A6.
Yes I think I they would bring back Software Rendereing as an option I would full switch to A6 instead of often using the A5 Engine.
( I say that after testing public Beta ).
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Re: Can 2D game run without 3D hardware?
[Re: TeutonicDarkness]
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05/01/06 10:45
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I will test it again... With the code of majelang. At least you also need A6.4.4 Beta
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