ATI 200M and Pixel Shader 3.0 support

juanymerja · Apr 10, 2007, 08:38 PM

I know that ATI Radeon Xpress 200M support pixel sahder 2.0, but is there something that one can do so that this card supports the shader 3.0?
Thanks a lot for your help!

RoyBatty · Apr 10, 2007, 08:55 PM

I think that it would require a hardware change in the GPU itself, therefore I guess it's not possible.

juanymerja · Apr 10, 2007, 09:12 PM

Thanks for your quick answer, RoyBatty. That means I can not play any game with the Shader 3.0 or higher... or is there any other solution to play this kind of games?

dipstick · Apr 10, 2007, 09:54 PM

I'm sorry to say there is not much you can do other than buying a new board or an add-in gfx card. However, just because a game says it supports ps3 doesn't mean you can't run it; you just wont see any extra effects that ps3 provides

Judas · Apr 10, 2007, 10:05 PM

Most games are backwards capatible like dipstick says,

While a game was designed and intended to run on a more update to date graphics system, usually every game comes with the ability to drop down to a lower standard, just recently more and more games are dropping pixel shader 1.3/1.4 support graphics cards, bare minimum today is usually 2.0 and up (radeon 9500 series and newer or Geforce 6 and up)

Apr 10, 2007, 08:38 PM	#1
juanymerja DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	ATI 200M and Pixel Shader 3.0 support I know that ATI Radeon Xpress 200M support pixel sahder 2.0, but is there something that one can do so that this card supports the shader 3.0? Thanks a lot for your help!

Apr 10, 2007, 09:12 PM	Thread Starter #3
juanymerja DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	ATI 200M and Pixel Shader 3.0 support Thanks for your quick answer, RoyBatty. That means I can not play any game with the Shader 3.0 or higher... or is there any other solution to play this kind of games?

Apr 10, 2007, 08:55 PM	#2
RoyBatty HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Czech Republic Posts: 1,941 Rep Power: 122 System Specs	I think that it would require a hardware change in the GPU itself, therefore I guess it's not possible.

Apr 10, 2007, 09:54 PM	#4
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	I'm sorry to say there is not much you can do other than buying a new board or an add-in gfx card. However, just because a game says it supports ps3 doesn't mean you can't run it; you just wont see any extra effects that ps3 provides