HTOTM: FUSION
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+Is there any big difference between playing with and without shaders?
I can't get my notebook to bear with shaders. I can't update my customised video driver either, and my other PC's video driver is crashed.
It seems like there is no solution right now, so I'm just asking if playing without shaders makes the game much less enjoyable or not.
Depends on you.
IMO, it doesn't make THAT much of a difference. It just makes it better looking.
I generally play without shaders even though my PC can easily handle it. I just use it for screenies and stuff like that.
there are a lot of threads about shader problems.. why u dont use the search button?
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Originally Posted by R4ff View Post
there are a lot of threads about shader problems.. why u dont use the search button?

I already read most of them, and as you see, I'm not asking what's the problem, I was just curious about the differences.
I prefer non-shaders.

Just always had it that way and even though I don't play the game anymore, it will stay that way.
lol
The difference between non-shaders and shaders used to be way bigger. Earlier, non-shaders had huge black outlines and edgy joints, and you had to use shaders to get it smoothed out.

As per now I will only say the colors are smoother and more shaded in shaders. Without, they look a bit too shiny. This is only if you're playing in raw shaders. When you run shaders, you have several additional options. These are fluid blood (Blood is rendered as a fluid object), reflections (the floor is like a poor mirror, so the Toris get reflected), soft shadows (softer shadows on Toris. This is hardly noticable), ambient occlusion (I don't know what it is, and I can't spot the difference) and bump maps (This is for the bump map textures. It gives the texture an illusion of a rough surface with bumps).

I hope this helped you. You won't lose any gameplay experience if playing without shaders.
This was very helpful, thanks.
Well, I don't have any other option after all, I have to get along with the non sadered version.
The game physics is the same with or without shaders, so they dont affect the gameplay.
The only difference is the graphics which is, with this new non-shader graphics, pretty much almost nothing.

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