Oolite Bulletins

Sorry if this has been already discussed (as I suspect it must have).

I'm on a 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 GB and 667 MHz - will the OXPs with more developed graphics run OK without probs and/or slowing everything down ridiculously?

You should be fairly ok as far a s processor & memory are concerned, I'm assuming you have a mini. if you've got gma950 you might not be able to see all the graphic goodness though. (You need to have shaders:full enabled for that...)

I have GMA950 and shaders are a mystery to me - I tried switching it on but just got strange silhouettes and shadows.

you dont have a graphics card which can do shaders then. the game will run fine, but you need to disable shaders.

Cmdr James wrote:

you dont have a graphics card which can do shaders then. the game will run fine, but you need to disable shaders.

Pants - that's why I was going to buy that LT2030u - I thought the GMA950 COULD do shaders - oh well - won't be buying that then (at least if I do it won't be for Oolite - shaders or nothing for me!)

Yep, sorry about the misleading information. It turns out I saw one of the new generation 'ION' netbooks, and thought it was a normal one. They're identical to all the other netbooks, but they can do shaders and stuff (a quick search later, I found the cheapest of this new shaders capable lot - HP 311 / PoV Mobii ION, but either of them is a smidge over 300 squids...)

Cmdr James wrote:

you dont have a graphics card which can do shaders then. the game will run fine, but you need to disable shaders.

Not quite. He has a chip which can do shaders, but only very simple ones. Fragment shaders which exceed its limits compile (because they’re valid) but don’t run, so you everything is black.

Simple shader mode works, at least with the built-in shader, but the lighting problems are distracting.

Ahruman wrote:

Cmdr James wrote:

you dont have a graphics card which can do shaders then. the game will run fine, but you need to disable shaders.

Not quite. He has a chip which can do shaders, but only very simple ones. Fragment shaders which exceed its limits compile (because they’re valid) but don’t run, so you everything is black.

Simple shader mode works, at least with the built-in shader, but the lighting problems are distracting.

Grrrr to Intel for being so far behind the curve when it comes to gfx (in general - not just laptop/netbook ones)

I will keep looking then - my friend is still going to the US in Jan so I will wait and see what's available Stateside around Christmas and for how much.

@Kaks - no worries - C'est al vie

I've switched simple shaders on and it does work ok. So thanks for advice.

The graphic difference between simple shaders and full shaders seems to be huge. Can I hope for a step between where I can enjoy better graphics with my GMA 950? I mean, the shaders are a problem for the video card, but the textures shouldn't be.

Edit: I somehow thought the texture-packs only work if you set the shader to full, because I only had gritty coriolis installed and it didn't work. So, the post is senseless and you can delete it... gritty coriolis still doesn't work somehow, though.

gritty coriolis still doesn't work somehow, though.

You may already know this, but Gritty Coriolis only makes some of the Coriolis stations gritty. Maybe you just haven't found one yet?