UFO: Afterlight

UFO: Afterlight

Cleril May 28, 2014 @ 5:47pm
No update on Intel HD Graphics
Nothing still on making this game work, eh?
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egg May 29, 2014 @ 5:06am 
What? It uses Pixel Shader 2.0 i believe. That might be the trouble. If you go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Afterlight\Profiles\<YOUR STEAM PROFILE HERE>" then go to the configuration file Options.cfg (open in notepad.exe preferably, or notepad++) and change this line

GKEY 12 "use_shaders" BOOL TRUE* to FALSE

GKEY 12 "disable_ground_bumps" BOOL FALSE* to TRUE

GKEY 12 "image_post_processing" BOOL FALSE if it's 'true'.

maybe that would work? I recommend a better computer though, as older and 'sillier' as this game seems, it still uses Pixel Shader 2.0 or perhaps even 3.0 and it still uses Ragdoll physics and ♥♥♥♥. But yeh try this man...
Cleril May 29, 2014 @ 6:28pm 
Originally posted by Ed.G:
What? It uses Pixel Shader 2.0 i believe. That might be the trouble. If you go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Afterlight\Profiles\<YOUR STEAM PROFILE HERE>" then go to the configuration file Options.cfg (open in notepad.exe preferably, or notepad++) and change this line

GKEY 12 "use_shaders" BOOL TRUE* to FALSE

GKEY 12 "disable_ground_bumps" BOOL FALSE* to TRUE

GKEY 12 "image_post_processing" BOOL FALSE if it's 'true'.

maybe that would work? I recommend a better computer though, as older and 'sillier' as this game seems, it still uses Pixel Shader 2.0 or perhaps even 3.0 and it still uses Ragdoll physics and ♥♥♥♥. But yeh try this man...

I should be getting a better computer either this week or in a few weeks. It's a desktop with an NVIDA 750 ti (2 GB)

I'll try the suggestion, thanks.

EDIT:

There is no "options.cfg" file in my profile folder. Just "Profileinfo."
Last edited by Cleril; May 29, 2014 @ 6:56pm
egg May 30, 2014 @ 12:13am 
Do you mean there's no Option.cfg in your Profile/<Steamprofilename>/ ? There's nothing but ProfilesInfo in PROFILES, but in Profiles/<yoursteamaccountname> folder there should be.

There should be one in the Folder named after your steam profile.. If not, it must be created on first run.
Cleril May 30, 2014 @ 4:46am 
Originally posted by Ed.G:
Do you mean there's no Option.cfg in your Profile/<Steamprofilename>/ ? There's nothing but ProfilesInfo in PROFILES, but in Profiles/<yoursteamaccountname> folder there should be.

There should be one in the Folder named after your steam profile.. If not, it must be created on first run.

Tried running the game several times trying to create an option.cfg.

There is no options.cfg anywhere in the entire UFO folder set.

I will eventually try to google for a options.cfg download. I'm sure someone has it uploaded somewhere.
egg May 30, 2014 @ 6:03am 
i could upload one, if you think that might do the trick. i'll set all GFX to lowest then put it on dropbox. do you have a PROFILE in game? I was thinking it was my steam user profile, but the folder that options.cfg is USSUALY in (*once its actually genned) is under the name of the Profile for ingame which you create to start a game. I'll try to upload a generic profile folder with low gfx in that case.
Cleril May 30, 2014 @ 6:07am 
Originally posted by Ed.G:
i could upload one, if you think that might do the trick. i'll set all GFX to lowest then put it on dropbox. do you have a PROFILE in game? I was thinking it was my steam user profile, but the folder that options.cfg is USSUALY in (*once its actually genned) is under the name of the Profile for ingame which you create to start a game. I'll try to upload a generic profile folder with low gfx in that case.

I've tried creating new profiles, usng the original, and just starting a new game to try to generate an options.cfg but no dice.

Would be appreciated if you would upload one. Google is seemingly not going to provide one.
egg May 30, 2014 @ 6:10am 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqjl84vtj7bflnv/Profiles.zip

override your profile folder with this. it might let you get in game hey? But to play, you'll have to go 'new game' and then choose 'use last games options' rather than 'default', perhaps? add us on steam if you want more help. elsewise - your new PC will fix it man lol. plus, it's actually quite a decent looking game still, on 1080p with all the options on max, with the physics, laser and lighting, reflections, bloom, texture effects etc heh
Cleril May 30, 2014 @ 9:59am 
Originally posted by Ed.G:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqjl84vtj7bflnv/Profiles.zip

override your profile folder with this. it might let you get in game hey? But to play, you'll have to go 'new game' and then choose 'use last games options' rather than 'default', perhaps? add us on steam if you want more help. elsewise - your new PC will fix it man lol. plus, it's actually quite a decent looking game still, on 1080p with all the options on max, with the physics, laser and lighting, reflections, bloom, texture effects etc heh

Hm, nope, did exactly as you said. It loaded up to 25% and then crashed due to the pixel issue as per usual.

Suppose I'll just wait for the new computer. Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.
Cyborg Lincoln Jun 25, 2014 @ 9:21pm 
Serves me right for not reading the extremely fine print that this game does not run on Intel cards, thanks Steam for making that so noticeable and up front. Game looks fun but no way am I gonna shell out hundreds of dollars for a new computer just to run this, hopefully they'll find a fix soon.
egg Jun 26, 2014 @ 4:34am 
Lol not many games nowadays will run on Intergrated videocards, i guess. I tried to run UFO afterlight on my laptop and it didn't run because of lack of shader 2.0 (among other things, no doubt) on my intergrated Intel chip. I forgot about that, heh. But that said, dude, this game will run on radeon and nvidia cards which are nearly 7 years old.
JustJay Jun 26, 2014 @ 10:09pm 
and said video cards are like $50. cheap and easy.
Cleril Jun 27, 2014 @ 4:27am 
Originally posted by JustJay:
and said video cards are like $50. cheap and easy.

Sadly still need a tower and everything else since I just have a laptop.

Plan to buy a pre-built one and just upgrade from there as necessary. I've found 2GB VRAM cards installed on pre-built computers for about $570. When they're on sale anyway.
egg Jun 27, 2014 @ 6:20am 
yeh i nearly threw a laptop at the wall when i bought it from ebay and they sent me an intel intergrated video one ugh hah. (but i didn't thankfully and sent that ♥♥♥♥ back where it came from)
Last edited by egg; Jun 27, 2014 @ 6:21am
DedZedNub Jul 3, 2014 @ 3:00pm 
Cleril, this is one of the few games that will not run on an Intel HD 2500 gpu in my experience. And you also ran into one of the problems with the U.F.O. series of games. In general, unless you can actually start the game and create a new game, you can't create a full profile and the options.cfg file will continually reset. I have the same issue.

I know everybody in the universe who doesn't have these chips thinks that everything else runs faster. But I can tell you for a fact that the older AGP card I had in my XP computer didn't run most of the games they both run as fast, but it could run U.F.O. Afterlight and also Aftershock, although that took some tweaking with issues with the movie.

(NOTE: To clarify for Ed.G etc, there is a huge difference between the Intel HD gpus 2500 and later, and those prior to those without the HD flag. They were a major upgrade to the Intel gpus. I can tell you that I can run Saints Row 3, Skyrim, Borderlands, Fallout New Vegas, Left For Dead 2, Serious Sam 3 BFE, Torchlight II, State of Decay, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Tomb Raider (new version), Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil Revelations, Resident Evil 4 HD PC, Mass Effect, Call of Juarez Gunslinger, Bioshock 1 and 2, Civ V, Alpha Protocol, Binary Domain, etc. You can probably check my list of Steam Games and get an idea. You check the boards about how bad some of the ATI and Nvidia complaints are on those games, and you'll see it isn't all about the brand. Now, I'm not saying it runs most of these at max, I usually dump the shadows to low, I never cared for AA, and I just use some Aniso when the game can handle it. Textures can be medium to high, and it varies according to the game and its optimization. But the idea that it can't run most games, that's pure bunk. I will admit that because of the newest games about to come not being optimized as much because they will expect much more powerful cards, it will get harder to defend using these gpus. But the current library I have has very few games that won't play on it, and by the time I'm done them all, I'll be dead anyway.)

The U.F.O. series of games clearly was not tested to run on Intel integrated gpus, it might work with ATI/Advanced Micro gpus integrated into the motherboard, but I wouldn't count on those either (but it isn't a guaranteed fail). They must have not considered something either in the drivers of Intel gpus or some other proprietary feature and so we get the issue. I can tell you that Pixel Shader 2.0 games and 3.0 games will both run on Intel HD 2500 gpus and higher. The Intel gpus prior to that I cannot speak for. There is the occasionaly Shader 3.0 game that will detect that the chip fails their tests, sometimes it will run then, sometimes it won't . Understand if the detection routine of the game fails, it may just have no driver assigned to your gpu, or it can't talk to the driver, in that case it fails. But sometimes the detection routine is just stupid, if you can force it to still launch, then it runs fine. I can only think of about 3 games or so that in the last 200 I tried do not run on an Intel HD 2500 or later. That would mean that an Intel HD 3000, 4000 should definitely run the same. It's up on the 98% range.

If you read all the posts about games that ATI guys have problems but Nvidia is mostly ok, or vice-versa, you get a lot of posts above 2 % failure rate. But it varies from card to card even in the same company's family.

Anyway, the standard response is that any U.F.O. series game needs either ATI or Nvidia made gpus to run. There may be exceptions, but that's up to others to mention. That's been the reality since at least 5 yeas as accepted fact. I bet you that a very good driver programmer could fix the issue, but the problem is most don't work with Intel gpu hardware, so they aren't likely to be around to test it.

NOTE: For what it is worth though UFO Extraterrestrials Gold will run on the Intel HD gpus, but that is not the same series or maker. It is actually quite similar to turn-based X-Com vintage series, but graphics are better. The Gold version includes a nice configurable mod section which also fixed just about every issue with the original UFO Extraterrestrials. So if you need an X-Com like fix, especially vintage turn-based, that's not a bad way when on sale to tide you over until Xenonauts is cheaper.
Last edited by DedZedNub; Jul 3, 2014 @ 3:13pm
Cleril Jul 3, 2014 @ 3:17pm 
Originally posted by DedZedNub:
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Well, this laptop has an older Intel HD 3000 (64 MB Dedicated, rest shared).

I can run all 3 Mass Effect games (actually the first Mass Effect runs the worst of the 3). Skyrim is unplayable (unless I roleplay a character with back problems it won't go past 20 FPS).
Last edited by Cleril; Jul 3, 2014 @ 3:17pm
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