Hello again.

Pondering with the idea to use esenthel in the c++ course i'm teaching, i tried to install the bloody massacre demo on one of the classroom pc's. Now these are not meant for gaming, but even a low framerate would be enough for some basic exercises with the engine.

The computers have an onboard graphics card: intel G31 express. According to the intel website, the cards support shader model 2.0 in a software accelerated mode: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-014257.htm

Still, when trying to run bloody massacre i get a message that shader mode 2.0 is not available. Is the software mode just not good enough, or could something else be wrong? I have installed the latest intel drivers, and updated directx, but don't really know what else i could check.

Regards,

yvan

If you have installed latest graphics drivers and directx runtime, but still get the error, then it means that DirectX does not report full 2.0 shader model support.
Engine gets the shader model version from directx, if it's not 2.0, then error is returned.

Ok, i got it working now, more or less. Just in case someone else is looking for a solution, i am using http://www.transgaming.com/business/swiftshader for now. It replaces the directx dll with a software renderer. There's a demo with an image overlay in a corner, and it's very slow if used fullscreen, but it will do for my purposes.