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Having trouble running the Republic Commando Demo- need help!

2005-02-14, 5:10 PM #1

YODA

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I am having a problem running the Republic Commando demo. First it prompted me that it needed the newest DirectX drivers to run it, which in this case is 9.0c. Okay, I downloaded it and now I have that. But now, I get the error box that says, "Insufficient Pixel shader detected on your display adapter. Republic Commando requires Pixel shader 1.1 or higher, do you want to continue?" Help! What can I do to correct this problem? Is there a way to download a patch to restore the pixel shader, or to just download the pixel shader, or what? What must I do? Please help me!

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2005-02-14, 5:19 PM #2

Avenger

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What kind of video card do you have? It's probably not able to run the game.

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2005-02-14, 5:27 PM #3

Cool Matty

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Yup, sounds like you have either a really old or integrated graphics card. Gonna need a new one most likely.

What video card do you have at the moment?

2005-02-14, 5:28 PM #4

YODA

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Okay, I think I have your answer. It has something to do with it being an NVidia, isn't it? Those bastards! Yes, I have a
HP Pavilion PC with an NVidia GeForce4 MX 420. That's what's wrong, isn't it?

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2005-02-14, 5:35 PM #5

Cool Matty

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That card is crap. Don't blame Nvidia though, they didn't buy the PC for you. Blame whoever thought a HP computer was a good one.

Yeah, that graphics card simply won't do. Any idea whether your PC has an AGP slot or not?

2005-02-14, 5:48 PM #6

YODA

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Probably, but I don't exactly have the money right now to buy a new card. Oh, well. Scratch yet another Star Wars game I can't play. First KOTOR, now Republic Commando. LucasArts just makes Star Wars games worse and worse to play. I may have to take a little bit of a game sabbatical and then come back and re-install one that still runs on my machine. Maybe I'll get to buy myself a copy of Jedi Academy- I never did get a copy of it, anyway. Have Jedi Outcast, though, but Single Player has gotten so boring. I can't stand playing the same storyline over and over, even with a zillion SP mods; haven't been any new SP maps for a LONG time, either. Oh, well. Thanks for everyone's input and help.

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2005-02-14, 5:53 PM #7

ECHOMAN

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So...games from LucasArts get worse and worse when they have more demand for better graphics...?

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2005-02-14, 5:55 PM #8

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Would it run on an mx440? j/c

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2005-02-14, 6:05 PM #9

KOP_Snake

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It wont let me play because when I try to run the game it gives me the "illegal operation" crap. Anyone know what this means?

Quote:

SWREPUBLICCOMMANDO caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:6c707544.
Registers:
EAX=10185ec0 CS=0167 EIP=6c707544 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00bf1b70 SS=016f ESP=01a0fb70 EBP=01a0fbb0
ECX=1088a828 DS=016f ESI=01a0fb8c FS=1c37
EDX=1078a328 ES=016f EDI=1078a328 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:

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