Question for PC Gamers

[Rookie_80 10+ year member]

I just bought a laptop.

its dual core with 2gb Ram and 256 shared for video card. (3100 accelerator)

System is Vista Premium

I installed Splinter Cell Double Agent but it would give me an error:

"Shared Model 1.1 is the minimum required to run the game"

Whats that model and where can i download it?

Any input is appreciated.

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[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

i donno what that means just make sure the lastest directx is installed, that always bites me in the ***

 

[Jeremy M 10+ year member]

try updating drivers or search for a config file that will help u

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

I just bought a laptop.its dual core with 2gb Ram and 256 shared for video card. (3100 accelerator)

System is Vista Premium

I installed Splinter Cell Double Agent but it would give me an error:

"Shared Model 1.1 is the minimum required to run the game"

Whats that model and where can i download it?

Any input is appreciated.

Shader model is essentially a set of software instructions to render something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader

The graphics card [display adapter] has to support it also. But Maybe trying to download and install the latest DirectX may help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

Mainly, the problem is Vista.

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

Mainly, the problem is Vista.

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HE isnt lying. Vista sucks balls for some games. And for others... its perfectly fine.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

THAT is why XP is on every machine I own

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

I got a spare HD I am bout to load XP on...but the programs I wanna use are on the HD with vista, lol

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

Mainly, the problem is Vista.

No, actually it isn't....... O.P., you need a card that supports directx9 (shader 3.0). You could try a program like this that emulates this for older cards.(I've never used this so it may work it may not). I really don't think that game will run well with integrated video.

 

[MrSwiss 10+ year member]

I just bought a laptop.its dual core with 2gb Ram and 256 shared for video card. (3100 accelerator)

System is Vista Premium

I installed Splinter Cell Double Agent but it would give me an error:

"Shared Model 1.1 is the minimum required to run the game"

Whats that model and where can i download it?

Any input is appreciated.

it means your videocard sucks. i think u need at shaders 2.0, or 3.0. its not something u can download, its what your hardware supports. its like saying "requires 4gb ram to play" for instance, u cant download ram. u need a better videocard to play it. btw that is one of the shittiest pc games ubi has ever made. i couldnt even finish it becuz of so many glitches and problems, and that was over a year ago.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

The x3100 supports up to shader model 3, so that isn't the problem. However, odds are it's not even worth trying to figure out what's wrong as the x3100 blows goats for gaming, anyways.

 

[Stel 10+ year member]

Most laptop GPU's are pretty bad for gaming, especially Intel. You need to find a laptop that has one of only a handful of mobile graphic cards from nVidia or ATI.

But anyway, installing the latest drivers for the x3100 should give you support for that shader model.

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

probably cause the gfx card is a pos.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

return the laptop, i recently purchased a laptop from newegg with a geforce 8400m G , (kinda crappy but does play new games) ... i play crysis, bioshock, CoD 4, world in conflict, and others... has like a 160 gig hd, 2 gigs ram, 17" screen, yes it does have windows vista, but its been working great for me! i payed about $1000 exactly from newegg... its an awsome computer, does what i need it to do .. also has one of those little 2" subwoofers that trys its best to reproduce bass freq's

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

I just built this for $1140 (including shipping and taxes) a couple weeks ago:

Case - Gigabyte Poseidon

Power Supply - Antec Earthwatts 500 Watt

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

CPU - Intel Xeon X3110 (2 x 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo)

Memory - 2x2 GB OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-6400

Hard Drives - Seagate 500 GB/32 MB cache + Seagate 320 GB/16 MB cache

Graphics Card - XFX GeForce 8800 GTS

Optical Drive - Lite-On 20x DVD-RW SATA

Operating System - Windows Vista Business 64-bit

Anti-Virus - Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0

Windows Experience Index Score - 5.9/5.9 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Rookie_80 10+ year member]

The x3100 supports up to shader model 3, so that isn't the problem. However, odds are it's not even worth trying to figure out what's wrong as the x3100 blows goats for gaming, anyways.

thx for the input guys.

and yes Jmac im wiht u on this one.

Im pretty sure 3100 supports 3.0