Is there ANY way to play SM3.0 games on older cards?

Casheti · Jul 1, 2007

I was just wondering if there's some way to force them to work on older cards or something.

I know this is a wild swing in the dark but I thought it was worth asking anyways...

Dippyskoodlez · Jul 1, 2007

Casheti said:
I was just wondering if there's some way to force them to work on older cards or something.

I know this is a wild swing in the dark but I thought it was worth asking anyways...

All games should automatically have a SM 1.5 or 2.0 mode, should SM 3.0 not be present.

SM3.0 is NOT required for all direct X 10 features anyways.

A DX9 card is perfectly capable of running a majority of direct X 10 features.

Same with Direct x 8.1 and Direct X 9.

theonetruewill · Jul 1, 2007

Dippyskoodlez said:
All games should automatically have a SM 1.5 or 2.0 mode, should SM 3.0 not be present.

SM3.0 is NOT required for all direct X 10 features anyways.

A DX9 card is perfectly capable of running a majority of direct X 10 features.

Same with Direct x 8.1 and Direct X 9.

SM3 = DX9.0c not DX10...
And primary example Spiderman 3 cannot be turned down to SM2.

Dippyskoodlez · Jul 1, 2007

theonetruewill said:
SM3 = DX9.0c not DX10...
And primary example Spiderman 3 cannot be turned down to SM2.

haha sucks if you bought that shitty game.

You got screwed twice!

Wasn't SM2 a big thing about DX9?

Or was there an addition I wasn't paying attention about?

EDIT: Ahh yes SM3.0 was 9.0C I was off by one version. SM4 is Direct X 10.

With Direct X 9 you could always revert back, but apparently you can't with Direct X 10.

hah, enjoy vista. Good thing none of the decent games are DX10 only.

Ripper3 · Jul 1, 2007

Rainbow Six Vegas doesn't have an SM2 mode. I looked around for one, before I decided on getting an X1800, as I was planning a cheap upgrade to a used X800 XT from my old 6600.
Splinter Cell Pandora Tommorow has a patch released tat enabled SM2 as an alternative to SM3, and for cards not supporting SM3.
Not sure many games though I know that STALKER and Oblivion have SM2 compatibility built in, while STALKER can use SM3. SM2 won't be dropped completely for a little while, X800s are still capable cards.

Demos_sav · Jul 1, 2007

To answer your question:

There is NO way to use an SM2 card to play SM3 applications:shadedshu

Either the application will have a built in feature to support SM2 or you can install a patch that will add SM2 support.

Casheti · Jul 1, 2007

Demos_sav said:
To answer your question:

There is NO way to use an SM2 card to play SM3 applications:shadedshu

Either the application will have a built in feature to support SM2 or you can install a patch that will add SM2 support.

That's all I wanted to know.

Thanks for the other replies guys.

hat · Jul 1, 2007

If you're trying to play Oblivion, you could always use Oldblivion (download), which supports SM2. It worked fine on my FX5200 Ultra.

theonetruewill · Jul 1, 2007

Dippyskoodlez said:
haha sucks if you bought that shitty game. You got screwed twice!

1. I haven't got that game
2. My X800XT (if you read my specs) is a temporary card.
3. I haven't been screwed - I'm not the one with the problem.

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 1, 2007

hat said:
If you're trying to play Oblivion, you could always use Oldblivion (download), which supports SM2. It worked fine on my FX5200 Ultra.

Ummm... Oblivion works fine on SM2 cards. That patch must allow it to work with other old features, not SM2.

Ripper3 · Jul 1, 2007

Jimmy 2004 said:
Ummm... Oblivion works fine on SM2 cards. That patch must allow it to work with other old features, not SM2.

Yeah, I think hat misinterpreted me, I meant as in, most games (newer ones) have two modes, one for SM2, maybe older, and SM3, and I used Oblivion as an example, heh.
Although Oldblivion does help with older SM2 cards.

Casheti · Jul 1, 2007

Nah I'm trying to play DiRT actually

HookeyStreet · Jul 1, 2007

Casheti said:
I was just wondering if there's some way to force them to work on older cards or something.

I know this is a wild swing in the dark but I thought it was worth asking anyways...

All games will work anyway, just without all of the eye-candy

Dippyskoodlez · Jul 1, 2007

theonetruewill said:
1. I haven't got that game
2. My X800XT (if you read my specs) is a temporary card.
3. I haven't been screwed - I'm not the one with the problem.

note: I do believe 6 was the highest rating anyone has given spiderman 3 for PC.

maybe you get it now? :laugh:

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