CS:DE GFX Card Question

[BeNjO]

Does CS:DE use the GFX Card at all? My gfx card's usage never moves when running CS:DE so it had me thinking if it is just cpu/ram only. If not how does one go about using some GFX card power? This has never come into my lesser programming skills but now its all i can think about; POWER

[Stein]

CS:DE is a funny beast, it has a rather broken graphics engine. On my computer for example it manages to crash my graphic drivers within 5 seconds :P

Anyway, pretty much any Mirage based game including the shootoffs are always based off of  the CPU over GPU. It's also pretty common to see that happening in large MMOs, even in today's market.

[Harris6310]

@Stein:

> It's also pretty common to see that happening in large MMOs, even in today's market.

Nope.

[BeNjO]

CS:DE has run none stop on my computer since i found it, only crashes when i run through codes and its forced to end. CS:DE is a awsome engine and is the reason i asked if i could make some rendering gpu not cpu

[Stein]

@Harris:

> Nope.

WoW, SW:TOR, TERA, Rift, AoC, GW2 just to name a few. ;] MMOs are generally much more intensive on the CPU than the GPU.

@TehDoug:

> CS:DE has run none stop on my computer since i found it, only crashes when i run through codes and its forced to end. CS:DE is a awsome engine and is the reason i asked if i could make some rendering gpu not cpu

Not unless you rewrite the entire rendering engine, which you'll need to anyway. It's far from awesome. ;] It just looks shiny. But oh well. (Let's just say it's broken by design, it just doesn't show on every configuration)