I'm sorry, but you don't run EQ2 on high settings with an integrated card. I'm skeptical that you can run EQ2 at all. Kyleran had a perfect solution. Here you go, an 80 dollar card. I use this, and run WAR on max settings.

 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150285

Originally posted by lorndarken

i was so happy when i was able to buy the game foolishly thinking it would run on my system,

FYI : the computer can play eq2 on high settings, guild wars, daoc, wow, and many other games btw.

so anyways.  i get the game installed and patched and and when i push the play button, i get a error occered  warhammer will now terminate.  so as soon as i get this i go in the  debug files to find out what the problem is, i look at the file as it state i fail to reach system requierments because my video card dose not support  VERTEX SHADER 2 ?. funny how ea mythic forgets to put that on the box when they made the game, so i can only assume i need to go out to the store to buy another video card and dish out a good 200 bucks just to play the game.

ea mythic ,  thank you for making a game that me and many others can't play.  with the developers making a game  where we had hopes to play get crushed due to a little program that can cater to only the people who would by chance have a video card that can be supported by corprate greed.

good bye warhammer, hello darkfall. i hope this game dose not dispoint as well.

I used to use an intergrated card. The water in Guild Wars looked like a mass of nothingness. You may have been able to run the game, but you weren't running it properly.

This is 2008. Sooner or later people have to switch over to better technologies. Unfortunately for you, the switch was made some time ago. Vertex Shader 3 is out already. Many of the cheapest of Nvidia cards have that feature.

I think what you mean to say was "Thank you EA Mythic for a game some people can't play". 

You dont have to spend $3000 on a computer to run War I just bought my wife a $399 computer off of tigerdirect and it runs the game on high settings with little to no vid lag.

Check newegg and tigerdirect for a card you should beable to get one around $30 with shader 2. But I would buy a better one if you are planing on playing Darkfall if and when it is released because I think you will have a harder time getting it to run then you will War.

Originally posted by Rollotamasi

I think what you mean to say was "Thank you EA Mythic for a game a very small minority can't play". 

Fixed.

do you really expect a playstation 3 game to run on playstation 1..

200 bucks cant even be called money, because it's pocket dust.. if thats mutch money, than its maby time to quit playing games, and start working..

pc these days is so cheap its laughable... but the sad thing imo is that this game dosnt run on mac, thats one of the reasons i liked wow..

Originally posted by lorndarken

i was so happy when i was able to buy the game foolishly thinking it would run on my system,

FYI : the computer can play eq2 on high settings, guild wars, daoc, wow, and many other games btw.

so anyways.  i get the game installed and patched and and when i push the play button, i get a error occered  warhammer will now terminate.  so as soon as i get this i go in the  debug files to find out what the problem is, i look at the file as it state i fail to reach system requierments because my video card dose not support  VERTEX SHADER 2 ?. funny how ea mythic forgets to put that on the box when they made the game, so i can only assume i need to go out to the store to buy another video card and dish out a good 200 bucks just to play the game.

ea mythic ,  thank you for making a game that me and many others can't play.  with the developers making a game  where we had hopes to play get crushed due to a little program that can cater to only the people who would by chance have a video card that can be supported by corprate greed.

good bye warhammer, hello darkfall. i hope this game dose not dispoint as well.

Everyone else has said it and I will say it to.......here it comes......

Check the system requirements.

Dont blame Mythic for your own ineptitude. The game installed and runs fine for me. Its good fun by the way

Sorry lorndarken your only the what second person I've seen say anything and he wasn't angry or blamed them he simply didnt know what was going on since he's not a computer person normally.  You obviously aren't either but your one of those get angry and blame someone else types that automatically attacks despite having no idea what your talking about.

Sad really...Im sure in a week we'll have a flame post that it sucks you have to PvP in order to get Renown Points or that the game is PvP based so the PvE isn't as great as you'd hoped it be.  Or that half the classes need a nerf because you have no idea how to play your class..sad really but...god I hope you play Order.

Originally posted by lorndarken

i was so happy when i was able to buy the game foolishly thinking it would run on my system,

FYI : the computer can play eq2 on high settings, guild wars, daoc, wow, and many other games btw.

so anyways.  i get the game installed and patched and and when i push the play button, i get a error occered  warhammer will now terminate.  so as soon as i get this i go in the  debug files to find out what the problem is, i look at the file as it state i fail to reach system requierments because my video card dose not support  VERTEX SHADER 2 ?. funny how ea mythic forgets to put that on the box when they made the game, so i can only assume i need to go out to the store to buy another video card and dish out a good 200 bucks just to play the game.

ea mythic ,  thank you for making a game that me and many others can't play.  with the developers making a game  where we had hopes to play get crushed due to a little program that can cater to only the people who would by chance have a video card that can be supported by corprate greed.

good bye warhammer, hello darkfall. i hope this game dose not dispoint as well.

So you didn't check the video card, later found out that you needed a more up to date video card, got mad and posted what seems to be a rant.

Then you say you will go to DarkFall? And if Dark Fall requires a more modern card then what?

I just don't get posts like this.

Originally posted by lorndarken

i was so happy when i was able to buy the game foolishly thinking it would run on my system,

FYI : the computer can play eq2 on high settings, guild wars, daoc, wow, and many other games btw.

so anyways.  i get the game installed and patched and and when i push the play button, i get a error occered  warhammer will now terminate.  so as soon as i get this i go in the  debug files to find out what the problem is, i look at the file as it state i fail to reach system requierments because my video card dose not support  VERTEX SHADER 2 ?. funny how ea mythic forgets to put that on the box when they made the game, so i can only assume i need to go out to the store to buy another video card and dish out a good 200 bucks just to play the game.

ea mythic ,  thank you for making a game that me and many others can't play.  with the developers making a game  where we had hopes to play get crushed due to a little program that can cater to only the people who would by chance have a video card that can be supported by corprate greed.

good bye warhammer, hello darkfall. i hope this game dose not dispoint as well.

I feel for you mate.

I know exactly how you feel for I myself had a similar harrowing experience whilst trying to run EvE online on my ZX spectrum.

Curse those greedy inconsiderate CCP folks for not putting "not compatible with ZX Spectrum" clearly on the box!

This is a definite deal-breaker for Mythic. We should all boycott their game just to show those game-hardware mafiosos we're not putting up with this anymore!

If your card doesn't support vertex and pixel shader 2.0 then you couldn't run EQ2 either because that game requires vertex and pixel shader hardware. A friend of mine bought EQ2 and couldn't play for this very reason. These days you don't just pick up a PC game without looking at the minimum specs, which they have a very long list of cards that are supported and go as far to say that using a chipset other than what is listed might not run the game. Just fyi anything above a geforce mx series card supports vertex and pixel shader 2.0.

Originally posted by lorndarken

yes it was listed with what video cards that may support the game,

windows xp , check

2.5ghz  p4 processor or equivalent , check

1 gb with xp  or more, check

hard drive at least 15 gb , check

direct x 9.0 or later and sound check and check

and in the tiny print, pixel shader 2.0, check with a 128 mb video card, check

nope, can't find anything about a vertex shader 2 on the box anywhere . hmm it must be hidden like some sorta code where if you take the letters and arrange them in a way you would come up with that.  man i knew i should of brought my cracker jack box decoder ring with me when i was looking at the box before i bought  the game,

 

thanks guys. ill be sure to do that next time  .

This is where you went wrong. (in red).

System specs are actually important to properly check, but in any case with an integrated graphics card - you should ALWAYS assume it wont run any games.  (even if some do) theyre not designed for gaming.

Oh and nobodys saying youre trying to be a 'hardcore' gamer..  but if you want to play games..  youre a gamer at least..  and you NEED a proper graphics card.

Incidentally:  You don't stand a hope in hell of running Darkfall.

 I call troll and complete crap , you do not run EQ2 on High settings with that integrated Intel card that's not even remotely one made for any gaming to begin with 

Originally posted by lorndarken

i was so happy when i was able to buy the game foolishly thinking it would run on my system,

FYI : the computer can play eq2 on high settings, guild wars, daoc, wow, and many other games btw.

so anyways.  i get the game installed and patched and and when i push the play button, i get a error occered  warhammer will now terminate.  so as soon as i get this i go in the  debug files to find out what the problem is, i look at the file as it state i fail to reach system requierments because my video card dose not support  VERTEX SHADER 2 ?. funny how ea mythic forgets to put that on the box when they made the game, so i can only assume i need to go out to the store to buy another video card and dish out a good 200 bucks just to play the game.

ea mythic ,  thank you for making a game that me and many others can't play.  with the developers making a game  where we had hopes to play get crushed due to a little program that can cater to only the people who would by chance have a video card that can be supported by corprate greed.

good bye warhammer, hello darkfall. i hope this game dose not dispoint as well.

I was so pissed when my Voodoo II wouldn't run this game!! I mean WTF it ran EQ1 on lowest settings perfectly... F**kin' developers can kiss my f**kin' a**!! M*****q**t*****f*a*!!1!

Originally posted by Kahine

 I call troll and complete crap , you do not run EQ2 on High settings with that integrated Intel card that's not even remotely one made for any gaming to begin with 

Don't forget about HT&L eq2 definitely needs support for it, which most intel based integrated graphics do not. I find this to be a very skeptical statement.

for all the speculation aside about me being able to play eq2  , it did use up some storage space and the game did lag like crazy but it was still capable of playing.  wana know what kinda computer im running as well ? okay....

gateway 702GE. maybe that will explain some things.

 as for looking on the box. i did look at the system requirements. if it said i needed vertex shader 2 , then i would of simply not bought the game cause i would of wanted to know if my current graphics card had that to begin with.  but gee willy wouldnt you know. a game that was rushed out for devilery  not to mention it has no mentioning of a vertex shader 2 to begin with wont run because  blah blah blah ect......  but why am i even responding to such childish taunts when someone makes the claim they cant play a game  they get blasted with mocking statements ,, if the warhammer community is like this    in game as  it is   on mmorpg  i can actully thank ea mythic for saving me by

 NOT

putting me in a world with non mature people aswell.

normally most games can

  be played if your computer, or graphic cards barley meet the system requirements, 

It's funny you are calling someone childish.. because they are pointing out all of your inconsistencies.  It's all ready been mentioned Vertex shader = pixal shader (as far as requirements). 

You need to chage the title to "Thank you Mythic for an opprotutnity to learn about video cards"

By a cheap AGP Geforce card.. spend about 50 bucks.. and quit bitching. 

Another Ignorant post brought to you be an Ignorant Person.

The best that you can buy price/performance wise is a nVidia 8800 GT but you already bought a card for $49.99.

Thats very cheap and must be a budget card.

Do you think that you will be happy with that in the long run?

I don't think the 8800GT is in an AGP format (let alone a PCI (33Mhz)  format) Given the age of his computer, he probably doesn't have a PCI-16x slot.. 

Originally posted by banthis

Originally posted by lorndarken

i've got a  intel 82915G/GV/910GL  Express Chipset Family

yes it is a older video card , but it is capable of playing many games on it.

 

....an integrated video card..well that explains it.   Just because it can run 'many games' and most of the oens you listed are ancient and had seriously LOW requirements in the first place (especially DAoC which is an ancient game) doesn't mean it'll run a brand spanking new game out of the box.  I can tell you right now Fallout3, Diablo 3,  probably even Starcraft 3, Oblivion, Spore, Crysis definitly, will NEVER run on your machine.   I still find it hard to believe EQ2 runs on your machine...my old computer (when the game came out) barely ran it properly.

Ingrated video cards are NOT made for gaming their made for computer illiterate people who want to surf the internet and write document files.

That's because EQ2 engine is mostly CPU bound. It will assigns what would normally be done by the GPU in other games to the CPU. It was parts of SOE's brilliant plan to future proof EQ2 for 5 years so it would look better as CPU power got better to handle the higher settings, but this move alienated EQ2 from benefiting from the advancement in GPU tech over the years. Now resulting in a game engine that can't do much with the GPU power of today and only improves if you do CPU upgrades.