Most of the custom shader links are available at Pete's Website along with Guest's Shader Collection Note:GeForce FX cards might be inferior to their Radeon Counterparts in terms of performance though, as they are weak in high level shaders.Īlso integrated DX9 cards such as the Radeon X300 and GeForce 6100 and above may also support the shaders but it may give poor performance. (afaik, if you were able to test OpenGL 1.4/1.5/2.0 tests then your fine). Regarding checking OpenGL shader capabilities of your card If your not sure if your card support shaders, you may wanna check kenmasters' thread At least a GeForce FX 5900 series/ GeForce 6/7 series or Radeon 9600XT and above/Radeon X and X1K series is recommended to play most options enabled as well as shader level/internal X and Y resolution set at very high. Cards such as the GeForce FX 52 may suffer in terms of performance when shaders are used.
Pete noted that its better if your card has at least 8 rendering pipelines to get a good speed in higher settings, although it will still work with cards with lesser pipelines. Other card manufacturers might also be supported provided that they can do DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0, but this is not guaranteed.Also, Make sure they have the recent drivers for them to support newer shader features/extensions needed for ARB/GLSLANG.(Click ATi or NVIDIA for driver updates for Windows XP) Note before using the shaders: These custom shaders, depending on its function, requires a DirectX 9 Fragment(Pixel) and Vertex Shader 2.0 capable card mostly found on newer graphics cards. That means you can't modify individual effects since you would have to modify the game itself. In this case for Pete's OpenGL2 graphics plugin, the shaders acts as a "post filter" effect wherein it mostly modifies the stuff you see on screen after its already rendered by the PlayStation itself (such as sprites and polygons).
But this is OpenGL you say, well lets just say that OpenGL also use the similar feature with some minor differences.įor a more technical terms regarding shaders, you may wanna look at this or this Links and Guide to Custom Shader for Pete's OpenGL2 PLuginįirst of all, what are Shaders? Well for a simplified term, its a graphics hardware feature that enables more complex special effects to be implemented into games by developers, a succesor to the old Hardware Transform and Lighting that were present during the days of Direct X 7 GeForce 2 series and Radeon 7xxx series.
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