"Shaders"? "Eyeglint"? "Meh"?

Pyroxic · 10-12-2007, 11:36 PM

Alright, I just got the Orange Box today, specifically for Portal(Jonathan Coulton playing the ending credits sold it for me). Anyways, I go to play Portal, and it tells me that I need a DirectX 8.0 or higher. So, I go and download DirectX 9.0, even though I am sure I have 8.0. I install it and all, enter Portal again, it closes after the loading screen and says the same thing. So I restart my computer. Same message. So I do some research. My graphics card(Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller) supports DirectX 9.0. So, I'm confused.

I continue doing research, and found out that I could make the game give me a log of everything it does. I do this, and the outcome looks like this:

Quote:

Both ConVars must be marked FCVAR_REPLICATED for linkage to work (r_VehicleViewDampen)
Unable to remove c:\program files\steam\steamapps\****(My username)\portal\portal\gamestats.log!
maxplayers set to 1
Error: Material "__depthwrite00" uses unknown shader "DepthWrite"
Error: Material "__depthwrite01" uses unknown shader "DepthWrite"
Error: Material "__depthwrite10" uses unknown shader "DepthWrite"
Error: Material "__depthwrite11" uses unknown shader "DepthWrite"
Error: Material "___glintbuildmaterial" uses unknown shader "EyeGlint"
Steam config directory: c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****(My username)\portal\platform\config

So... I dunno! I have no idea what this means, other than my card may not support shaders, or something. I have no idea. Any help, please?

Thanks so much!

- Pyroxic

ebackhus · 10-13-2007, 07:54 AM

Have you made sure that the chipset is actually supported? Even if it's DX9 compatible it may be missing certian features that prevent it from certian tasks. Tack on the fact that it's an integrated Intel chipset and you're almost dead in the water.

Game compatibility list.

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ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,335 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	Re: "Shaders"? "Eyeglint"? "Meh"? Have you made sure that the chipset is actually supported? Even if it's DX9 compatible it may be missing certian features that prevent it from certian tasks. Tack on the fact that it's an integrated Intel chipset and you're almost dead in the water. Game compatibility list. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses. Last edited by ebackhus; 10-13-2007 at 07:55 AM.