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Still somewhat angered about the new shader update.
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sethja8:
Yes yes, you've heard a million complaints now.  But I guess I'll put it from my side of the story.

About a month ago I ordered a new graphics card- a galaxy, the best one I could find for my not-so-uptodate computer.  25$, not expensive, which means not so good.  BUT,

this totally changed my gaming experience.  I can run most of my steam games now with atleast 30 fps and I can run TF2 at all highs (by saying TF2 I basically mean all source games, shaders and whatnot)

Forgetting about Blockland's shader update (and taking a break from it to wait for responses from Badspot to somewhat help people who couldn't have shaders like myself) I went back ingame to see that I could run the shaders and shadows.  BUT,

After loading a few builds and such I noticed that my FPS goes from a good 50 or so to a horrid 10.  On "low" settings for shaders/shadows.  Now, I guess this isn't really a thing to complain about, but I don't see how this makes sense.

Seeing how much of the BL community is/will/are indeed children, I don't see how they would enjoy spending much money (or have the intelligence of how to) on upgrading their computer.  But that isn't really the case I wanted to say.

If I can run most of my current games (especially from the source engine and such) on near-to full highs, I don't think it makes sense that BL should require more than that to run shaders properly.  It doesn't honestly make much sense to me, but I can't necessarily do anything about it.  I just wanted to say this quickly and see what people replied with.  Most likely hate, but I won't be checking this thread that often so I don't really mind the feedback.

Unless I said it before, I'm not very mad about this.  Just confused.  I imagine it will get "fixed" but I hope that BL in later updates doesn't require such a good GC, especially because the one I have now is the one I'll be stuck with for a while.

Also, this doesn't really seem like a kind of problem, so I didn't post it anywhere but here.  I will move it if it seems that necessary. 
otto-san:
Just don't use shaders?
You can't run them, and if that's out of your control, you can't help that.

At least you can actually play the bloody game.
Swat 3:

--- Quote from: otto-san on September 21, 2012, 06:36:09 PM ---Just don't use shaders?

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Dem be good even though I has Minimum only
Reinforcements:
I don't use shaders when I play. My framerate drops and whenever I switch out of blockland to my code editor the gui of the editor lags XD.(Shaders are cool though)

--- Quote ---Seeing how much of the BL community is/will/are indeed children, I don't see how they would enjoy spending much money (or have the intelligence of how to) on upgrading their computer.  But that isn't really the case I wanted to say.
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Very good point
otto-san:

--- Quote from: Swat 3 on September 21, 2012, 06:36:36 PM ---Dem be good even though I has Minimum only

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Yes, they look very pretty, but they hardly make the game.

This is why shaders are off by default. Also keep in mind they're fairly new.
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