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One of the biggest problems we have had since we started working on the Build Mod for POTC has been the Intel graphics chips bug. These Intel chipsets were designed to be a cheap solution and mostly for business use, like displaying spreadsheets or pie charts. However, because it was a cheap solution, more motherboard manufacturers included this graphics chipset as a way to cut costs and still provide a computer with basic video capability's. These chipsets were mainly used in laptops, but there are desktop motherboards that are effected by this as well. POTC wasn't the only game to suffer, gamers everywhere have been plagued by this for years! I won't go in to the tech details, but games or programs that use shaders are particularly vulnerable.
The only solution that we were able to find was a program called Swiftshader, and while it did work for most people, it didn't work for everyone. It is also a software solution to a hardware problem, and it forces a computers CPU to do all the graphics calculations on top of all the other work that a CPU does. That results in a serious degradation in performance, and makes the game a lot less enjoyable to play. Thanks to amplificar, and his post on the forum, we may have a permanant solution! But we need your help to confirm this, if you have an Intel chipset, please read through amplificar's thread and try his solution for yourself. So far, we have had one user confirm it, but for this to be a proper solution, we need as many people to try it as possible!
The only solution that we were able to find was a program called Swiftshader, and while it did work for most people, it didn't work for everyone. It is also a software solution to a hardware problem, and it forces a computers CPU to do all the graphics calculations on top of all the other work that a CPU does. That results in a serious degradation in performance, and makes the game a lot less enjoyable to play. Thanks to amplificar, and his post on the forum, we may have a permanant solution! But we need your help to confirm this, if you have an Intel chipset, please read through amplificar's thread and try his solution for yourself. So far, we have had one user confirm it, but for this to be a proper solution, we need as many people to try it as possible!
