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3D Analyze

Sunday, March 23, 2008





Did you buy a new laptop and you're trying to play a top notch game and after a long installation you've discovered that it does not work? Now you are wondering what went wrong, you've checked the basic specifications and noticed that your hardware meets the minimum requirements and maybe even the recommended requirements. And after some Googling searching and browsing through games sites and pages you've discovered that your video card is not supported. Well yes this happens to lots of people and its not there fault since gaming companies does not provide a full system specification and I don't know why but it happened to me. Most of the technical specifications only tell you the amount of video memory needed to run the game, sometimes they forget to tell you that you'll require Hardware TnL, Pixel Shading and Vertex Shading. As some of you might know that Intel Chipsets does not offer these essential gaming technologies that are required to play your game. But rest assured that there is a solution to this issue.

3D Analyze is a free application that lets you emulate both pixel shading and Hw TnL if your graphics card does not support them, it also comes with tons of other tweeks that you can apply to your game and/or 3D application. It is basically the one and probably the only solution out there that lets you run 3D applications on your computer with out the need of upgrading.

The GUI is somewhat frightening at first run as you'll see dozens of options and radio buttons but after a while you'll get the hang of it.

Basically most games nowadays requires HW TnL and Pixel Shading and most Intel Chipsets comes with a basic 1.1 Pixel Shading and no Hw TnL so the most important option in running a 3D game is to activate "Emulate HW TnL" and sometimes "Emulate Pixel Shading" if you have an older version than the one required. You can also enter a device ID if your game or program only works on specific chipsets like Nvidia or ATI, but first you'll have to know the device ID. And if you can't 3D analyze provides you with some of these IDs for popular hardware.



3D Analyze consumes a lot of memory depending on the options activated which means that even after emulation your game might suffer some glitches and/or crashes since your RAM will be working on maximum capacity so a change of RAM might be required before playing. Another disadvantage of 3D Analyze is that it doesn't provide you with explanations about what the various options will do, you can find information online but still it should be provided with at least a help file.

So far I have tried Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, NWN2 and the mighty Oblivion and they all worked brilliantly except for NWN2 and I'm still trying to figure out the flaws there.

3D Analyze can be downloaded from Here.

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