FoC Graphics Fix for Intel Users news - Empire at War

Greetings. I have an Intel Integrated Graphics card for my laptop. Pretty decent, can run Crysis 2 high with no lag, but...

It could not run a ~10 yr old star wars game on full graphics??
Can't be true. 

Fellow FoC players, if you have an intel chip but cannot raise your graphics level....

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION

Back in those times when EaW was new, Intel chips had no shaders. What did the devs do? They made a fixed calibration of graphics for intel users. Now as time progressed, intel users have shaders within their integrated cards. So. Where did they save the fixed calibration? 

Go to the XML of your game you will see a file called "GraphicsDetails"  (if it is not there, extract it from the .meg files.) Open it and replace the existing (graphicdetaillevelenumeration with this code)

 

xml code:

<GraphicDetailLevelEnumeration>

        <!--                                                        -->
        <!--  Default Detail sets                                   -->
        <!--                                                        -->

        <!-- Lowest default detail, de-res the textures, use fixed function pipe and crappy water -->
    <GraphicDetailLevel name="Default_0">
      <ScreenResolutionWidth>1600</ScreenResolutionWidth>
      <ScreenResolutionHeight>900</ScreenResolutionHeight>
      <ScreenAALevel>4</ScreenAALevel>
      <TextureMipLevel>0</TextureMipLevel>
      <ShaderDetailLevel>3</ShaderDetailLevel>
      <WaterDetailLevel>2</WaterDetailLevel>
      <ShadowDetail>3</ShadowDetail> 
      <ShadowVolumes>Yes</ShadowVolumes>
      <SoftShadows>Yes</SoftShadows>
      <HeatDistortions>Yes</HeatDistortions>
      <Bloom>Yes</Bloom>
      <DynamicLighting>yes</DynamicLighting>
      <ParticleDetail>1.0</ParticleDetail>
      <MeshDetail>1.0</MeshDetail>
      <EnvironmentDetail>1.0</EnvironmentDetail>
    </GraphicDetailLevel>

 

This makes the default graphics put on highest settings. DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE PROCESSING POWER.

Intel users. There is a line of code, singling us out here:

xml code:

 <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!-- Intel special cases, all Intel HW gets fixed function due to the lack of hardware vertex shaders      -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->
       HardwareConfiguration name="Config_Intel_Fast">
                <GraphicDetailSettingName>  FF_0  FF_1  FF_2  FF_3</GraphicDetailSettingName>
                <DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>2</DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>
                <PixelShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</PixelShaderVersionHEX>
                <VertexShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</VertexShaderVersionHEX>
                <TextureMemory>200.0</TextureMemory> 
                <CPUSpeed>2.25</CPUSpeed>    

                <VendorIDHEX>0x8086</VendorIDHEX>
        </HardwareConfiguration> 

        <HardwareConfiguration name="Config_Intel_Slow">
                <GraphicDetailSettingName>  FF_0  FF_1  FF_2  FF_3</GraphicDetailSettingName>
                <DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>1</DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>
                <PixelShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</PixelShaderVersionHEX>
                <VertexShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</VertexShaderVersionHEX>
                <TextureMemory>200.0</TextureMemory> 
                <CPUSpeed>0.0</CPUSpeed>     

                <VendorIDHEX>0x8086</VendorIDHEX>
        </HardwareConfiguration>

        <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!-- Generic Hardware Configs, based on cpu-speed, texture-ram, and reported shader versions               -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->
        <!--                                                                                                       -->

        <!-- Highest detail setting, we want 6800's, X800's and above (primarily filtered by fill-rate) -->

COMMENT THIS OUT

xml code:

      <!--  HardwareConfiguration name="Config_Intel_Fast">
                <GraphicDetailSettingName>  FF_0  FF_1  FF_2  FF_3</GraphicDetailSettingName>
               <DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>2</DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>
               <PixelShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</PixelShaderVersionHEX>
               <VertexShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</VertexShaderVersionHEX>
                <TextureMemory>200.0</TextureMemory> 
                <CPUSpeed>2.25</CPUSpeed>    

               <VendorIDHEX>0x8086</VendorIDHEX>
        </HardwareConfiguration> 

       <HardwareConfiguration name="Config_Intel_Slow">
                <GraphicDetailSettingName>  FF_0  FF_1  FF_2  FF_3</GraphicDetailSettingName>
               <DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>1</DefaultGraphicDetailLevel>
               <PixelShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</PixelShaderVersionHEX>
               <VertexShaderVersionHEX>0x0000</VertexShaderVersionHEX>
                <TextureMemory>200.0</TextureMemory> 
                <CPUSpeed>0.0</CPUSpeed>     

               <VendorIDHEX>0x8086</VendorIDHEX>
       </HardwareConfiguration>
   -->

 

Open Game AND SURPRISE!!!

The_Didact