First post, by watson
I want to know why Crysis doesn't run on GeForce FX cards, but runs on R300.
Wikipedia tells me R300 supports PS 2.0, and FX supports PS 2.0a, which supposedly has more features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Level_Shad … ader_comparison
However, somebody must be lying here because this is what Crysis reports on an FX 5200:
Unsupported video card! - NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (vendor = 0x10de, device = 0x0322) - Video memory: 123 MB - Minimum SM 2.0 supp […]
Unsupported video card!
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (vendor = 0x10de, device = 0x0322)
- Video memory: 123 MB
- Minimum SM 2.0 support: no
- Rating: 1
Obviously I'm not trying to play the game on this card, I just want to know the technical explanation, i.e. R300 has feature X which the FX series doesn't.
We all know how bad these cards are with DX9 games, but it should at least start up.
Does it even truly support PS 2.0 then or did Crytek simply blacklist the FX series because it's so bad?
I'm sorry if this has been discussed in another topic.
There do seem to be several videos on Youtube, which I presume to be fake.