t&l

[cornilia]

Ok i have the "once upon a knight" game and i can't seem to get it up and running cause i get a message saying your card does not support t&l!!!!! I had a look around and my card does support t&l and yes i have downloaded the latest drivers. So please any info about this would very much be appreciated. thanks
Oh by the way my display card is a cyber aladdin-p4 with 32mb on a toshiba laptop a20-s103 with 2.8mhz cpu.

[Lycius]

I wasn't able to find a single Trident card that supported T&L, the fact that it's a laptop means it's not an AGP card and it's onboard and probably sharing RAM with the CPU.

Got a link with the stats for your card?

[Zalgaddas]

Here's one:
http://www.aliusa.com/eng/product/corelogic/m1644t.htm

Here's two:
http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/cyberaladdin-p4/shared/cyberaladdinP4.pdf

However, it would appear to be an AGP laptop. As far as I can tell, they only mention up to directx 8.0 support.

Which drivers do you have installed for it? What is the driver version specifically?

[Edit]
Ah here we go: the name Cyber-Aladdin-P4 is the name of the laptop 'solution', not the video chip.
This:http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/cyberblade%20xp2/shared/cyberbladeXP2.pdf They try to mask its sub par features by using fancy wording like "Adaptive Sharing of Transform & Lighting with CPU". All that means is the Pentium 4 processor is doing the work (Software T&L) instead of the video card doing the work (Hardware T&L).

If you still have the ability to take that laptop back to the point of purchase, do it.


I think somebody needs to give that company an enema.

[cornilia]

No guys i can't take it back now :( So i guess theres nothing i can do hey? And i really wanted to find a way to work it out. Oh! Do you know if there is any way that i could change my display card? toshiba says no but hope always dies last...

[Zalgaddas]

Well the problem is that if you switch out the video chip then the motherboard goes with it, that right there is essentially the whole laptop. You'd pretty much have the hard drive, ram and casing+screen left after that.

If its really that important to you to play games with high system requirements on your laptop, then you may want to consider just selling the laptop and getting one with say, a Geforce Go or Radeon Mobilty (9x00). You'll want to get as much RAM for the video as possible, like 128megs or more, since you can't really upgrade the graphics on a laptop, for cheap anyway.

Here is a decent system:
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_8600?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

[cornilia]

well ok thanks for the info