How many people still play WITHOUT shaders?

by eihrul on 04/09/2015 18:23, 49 messages, last message: 10/07/2022 14:09, 31436 views, last view: 05/17/2024 09:26

Poll: Do you still play with shaders disabled? If shaders were required to play, would you still be able to play?

Reason I ask:

So, one of the things I was thinking about for the next release is getting rid of all the other rendering modes in the engine EXCEPT for the GLSL shader path.

This would mean we could possibly use a bit more spectacular shader effects as well since we wouldn't need to make sure it was supported on old GPUs.

The disadvantage is that people who are playing on older chipsets that do not support OpenGL 3.0 or at least OpenGL 2.1 would no longer be able to play.

It would also make the codebase a lot cleaner and easier to understand.

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#41: Re: ..

by suicizer03 on 06/29/2015 11:05, refers to #40

Try /shaderdetail 0...3

Most graphic effects (other than glare and grass) ate disabled at default. Not sure about Anti-aliasing.

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#42: ..

by eihrul on 07/31/2015 22:54

The bulk of these changes have now been completed in SVN. Sauer now requires a minimum of OpenGL 2.1 to run.

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#43: Re: ..

by Papriko on 07/31/2015 23:31, refers to #42

Noooo! How am I going to play Sauer on my gamer rig now?! https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/riz-toaster.jpg

Sorry, I didn't intend to be a jerk. All joking aside, I am happy to see that these changes are done to the shader system.

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#45: Shraders?? :/

by Hero2015 on 08/12/2015 20:28

what are shtader?

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#46: Re: Shraders?? :/

by suicizer03 on 08/15/2015 04:11, refers to #45

As from wiki;
A program that tells a computer how to draw something in a specific and unique way.
So they tell your computer to draw a mapmodel with or without reflections for example.

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#47: ..

by rabe on 09/20/2015 12:17

I play without shaders.

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#48: Re: ..

by Papriko on 09/20/2015 20:39, refers to #47

Because you don't want to or because your PC can't handle it?

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#49: Re: ..

by rabe on 09/21/2015 11:20, refers to #48

Both.

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by chasester on 12/28/2015 05:38

Technically speaking its a visual effect so sauer could release (at least for this year) an unofficial version with shaders to give people one more year (or so) to update to a graphics card. Since this is only a removal of code no work around would have to be updated.

chasester

PS:I have a dell inspiron built before the release of cube 2 (penium 4 intergrated graphics card), that runs cube [well last one i checked what justice]), so idk how much of a problem this will really cause, sauer is not really graphically intense. If you are having issues with shaders you could just write simplified shaders to inprove preformance, or lower the resolution that sauer is rendering at.

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