Having trouble running the Republic Commando Demo- need help!

I wasn't sure whether to post this under the official thread or not, but 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!

 

I'll try,

first, what graphic/video card are you using?

 

Indy3,

Thanks anyway, but a couple of people also answered my question over at The Massassi Temple. I have a machine with an NVidia. A word to the wise: DO NOT download and/or buy the demo or the full game expecting it to run on a computer with an NVidia chipset or card. You will be sorely burned by the experience. I know I was. LucasArts should have warned people downloading the demo of this fact. I will never buy another game from them again that's a new title until they have made them able to be played on a machine that's fairly current without having to upgrade just to play something!!

 

to play it you have to go to Local Disk (C and then go to program flies then go to LucasArts and then go to Star Wars Republic Commando Demo and then go to GameData then go to System and click on it SWRepublicCommando and play that how I got it to work.

 

> have a machine with an NVidia. A word to the wise: DO NOT download and/or buy the demo or the full game expecting it to run on a computer with an NVidia chipset or card.

Uhh, that's casting a pretty far net, considering Nvidia and ATi are the 2 main chipset producers for graphics cards.

I'd be absolutely shocked if the demo would not run on any nvidia card, I think you've just got an older / cheaper card (like a GeForce MX / Ti) that doesn't have the features necessary to run the game (in this case 'pixel shading').

For what it's worth the game won't run on ATI cards that fail to meet minimum specs either.

 

I have an nVidia GeForceFX5200 and it's running fine. The funny thing is that I've heard of computers with far superior video cards that simply won't run it. Regardless, LEC has released a list of video cards that the full version will support, so there's no duplicity or secrecy on their part. You'll just need a computer that can handle it.

 

to play it you have to go to Local Disk (C and then go to program flies then go to LucasArts and then go to Star Wars Republic Commando Demo and then go to GameData then go to System and click on it SWRepublicCommando and play that how I got it to work.

Didn't work for me.

 

It work for me and it is sweet!!

 

At least it's telling you the graphics won't work, I just started playing and the entire view outside of my helmet was blurry as hell. Couldn't see a damn thing.

 

Did you clean your visor?

 

How do you do that?

 

Doesn't it do that automatically?

 

I've got a Radeon 7500 and its running fine not at top settings but still good.

 

"Doesn't it do that automatically?"


I thought so, it did that in the Xbox demo. Did anyone else have to wipe their visor clean to see at the start of the level?