Was that patch suppose to fix the shader? Hasn't for me??

You'll need to be a little more specific. Shaders and reflections are two different things. Then there are reflections for water and costumes/windows which are two different things. What settings are you trying to enable?


Check out these threads:

• Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines

• Players experiencing issues related to Graphics cards

• Notice: just because your Computer Says your Drivers are up to date: they probably are not

• Ultra Mode: here's what you need to know

• Ultra Mode Graphics Settings Breakdown

• ATI Users: 2 problems you need to know about!

Then post the results of these two programs:

• CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.

• HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.

Do you use an intel video card? Because it's been the same for me and others with Intel cards, shader options greyed out.

If those are the 'minor reflections' you're talking about, I'm still experiencing this - comparison i16 x i17 - as you can see my toon and the npc besides her had reflections and shading in the i16 pics and now they look plain.

Anyhow never hurts to see if you're running the latest drivers (I'm assuming you have an Intel chip because the shader options were supposed to be fixed and our 'minor reflections on toons and npcs/enemies corrected):

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/detect.htm

Okay, Shuri? What hardware are you using?

Based on this post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...48&postcount=2

It looks... LOOKS like you are using Intel Integrated graphics. One of the threads Zombie Man links to directly deals with this issue in later posts: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502 :: cross-references to http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=220618

Luminous Martini found that forcing -useTexEnvCombine as a launch option solved the outright crashing on Intel chips:



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Now, if you aren't using Intel integrated graphics, and you have some other graphics card from ATi or Nvidia that's on a legacy driver, such as from the Radeon 9x00 series, Radeon x300-x800 series, Radeon x1x00 series, and Nvidia Geforce4 through GeforceFX... your graphics options might be limited as neither company commits (a significant amount of) resources to addressing bugs or issues on cards from these errors.

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Also, if you ARE using Intel Integrated graphics, you may, or may not, be S.O.L. when it comes to getting the exact same graphics settings as before. The existing graphics engine contained several hacks, work-arounds, kludges, and in some cases just plain bad coding to achieve some of the visual effects under OpenGL 1.3-1.5 Rendering paths.

The Ultra Mode upgrade fixed several of the outstanding code quality issues. Unfortunately, just because the graphics code itself might now be API Adherent... does not necessarily mean that the drivers themselves are API Adherent.

It is very possible, although unconfirmed, that CoH's engine was making use of non-specification OpenGL API calls to achieve some of the graphical effects. Converting these graphical effects into "standardized" OpenGL API calls may encounter problems when a vendor has implemented the non-specification call for performance or hardware reasons. E.G. : Nvidia, UltraShadow, and GeforceFX.

From the information that has been given to the players, it seems that the guys working on the engine think they can reduplicate existing effects on the cleaned-up code. They might not be able to. As demonstrated... quite painfully for many players... in the 5/04 patch, kludging the engine means... kludging the engine.

Yup., same thing as me, bad gfx/ greyed shader opstions.

Actually the game has not crashed at all for me after i17, I didn't crash often before but had some nasty ones when training / accessing the markets. The 'useTexEnvCombine' thingie worked for those who had crashes with Intel cards.

The guys from support told me to try safe mode lol. I don't know if I lose hope and laugh at them or keep my faith that they'll solve the shader intel issue, since it's not only me and you who have shader/low gfx quality problems among Intel users, meaning the supposed 'shader fix' wasn't ideal.

Told me to do the same thing. Didn't help at all lol. I haven't crashed once, I did get a couple mapserves but besides that i was ok. Just hoping to get my old graphics back