I am incapable of using Shaders on my Windows 8 laptop. Someone, help.

[WolvFire]

I just tried playing Blockland on my mom's Windows 8 computer today for the first time and when I loaded into a game none of the shaders were working. The console said something about disabling extensions in OpenGL and I have no idea what anything means with this. This game isn't very fun without shaders... dark areas in maps suck. Help, me, please.

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[Champion]

i dont think you can play blockland with shaders on intel graphics, can you?

[AutoBahn]

Intel graphics cards can't run OpenGL as far as I know(except maybe the newest ones, I have no idea about those).

[WolvFire]

Intel graphics cards can't run OpenGL as far as I know(except maybe the newest ones, I have no idea about those).

I love the quick responses. And... forget. I could play it on Windows 7 just not this Windows 8, but this computer is soooo much faster than the other. I just want to play with shaders, I can only play with minimal on the other.

[WolvFire]

Intel graphics cards can't run OpenGL as far as I know(except maybe the newest ones, I have no idea about those).

Wait, is there anyway I can MAKE it work?

[Zeblote]

And... forget. I could play it on Windows 7 just not this Windows 8, but this computer is soooo much faster than the other.

You're being very unclear here. Did you buy a whole new computer, or just install windows 8 on it?

[WolvFire]

You're being very unclear here. Did you buy a whole new computer, or just install windows 8 on it?

Brand new Windows 8 computer, it's my mom's.

[Greek2me]

OP, that card should be capable of at least minimum shaders. Try updating the drivers directly from Intel's website.

Intel graphics cards can't run OpenGL as far as I know(except maybe the newest ones, I have no idea about those).

Please don't spread misinformation. While Intel cards are bad at running shaders, they can run shaders.

Source: I have a terrible Intel chip.

[AutoBahn]

Please don't spread misinformation. While Intel cards are bad at running shaders, they can run shaders.

Source: I have a terrible Intel chip.

Interesting.
Maybe some of them can run OpenGL, but I've never seen it personally from any computer I've used.

[General]

This is probably because your graphics chip is not supported, unfortunately nothing can be done about this except wait and see if support is added in near future.

[WolvFire]

OP, that card should be capable of at least minimum shaders. Try updating the drivers directly from Intel's website.

Please don't spread misinformation. While Intel cards are bad at running shaders, they can run shaders.

Source: I have a terrible Intel chip.

It works with minimal shaders... I know this computer can run better than minimal but this stupid driver...

[AutoBahn]

I just remembered what the deal is. Minimal shaders aren't actually using OpenGL, they use something else. Intel chips don't support higher than Minimum thanks to this.

[Zeblote]

I just remembered what the deal is. Minimal shaders aren't actually using OpenGL, they use something else. Intel chips don't support higher than Minimum thanks to this.

*facepalm*

Of course minimum uses opengl too.

[Pecon]

When you enable anything above the "None" option for shaders, it uses OpenGL to render. The issue here is that most intel graphics drivers either don't support OpenGL shadow methods, or misreport that they do even when they do not.

[Becquerel]

I think someone said that while Intel designs Graphics cores with their processors, they arent manufactured for heavy duty work instead of simple calculations but i cant find the quiote