3D Analyzer-Play Games Without GPU??

Is this possible?

The website claims "NOW U CAN PLAY ANY LATEST GAME WITHOUT GRAPHICS CARD!!!! JUST INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE IN UR PC AND PLAY GAME WITH IT...
3d analyze is a Graphics Card Emulator that can emulate all the feature of a 3d graphics card like pixelshader 1.1, 1.4, 2.0, bump maps and a lota stuff. If a game stops running on your system just because u dont have a graphics card, dont worry 3d analyze will do it for ya. run 3danalyze select the game exe, select a few options u wanna emulate and there u go the game run perfectly now."

here is the link to download

http://download-free.programas-gratis.net/php/software.php?id_programa=675&download-3D-Analyze-2.36

I have no idea about this!

List Of Games That Work With 3D Analyze
Alexander (needs confirmation)
* Act of War: Direct Action
* Advent Rising
* Attack on Pearl Harbour
* Battlestations: Midway
* Black & White 2
* Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods
* BloodRayne 2
* Boiling Point: Road to Hell
* Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
* Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
* Caesar IV
* Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
* Chaotic
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
* The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
* Colin McRae Rally 2005
* Company of Heroes
* Darkstar One
* Deus Ex: Invisible War
* Devil May Cry 3 (Use skip pixel shaders options, force 100 Hz, check performance mode, force SwTnL; Tested on Intel 865 onboard graphics)
* Earth 2160
* Empire Earth 2
* Empire Earth 2: The Art of Supremacy
* Eragon
* Fable: The Lost Chapters
* F.E.A.R.
* Half-Life 2: Episode Two
* Heroes of Might and Magic V
* Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
* Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
* Just Cause
* Knight Of The Temple 2
* Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
* Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
* Lord of the Rings Online
* Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Required LOTR Texture Fix)
* Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
* Medieval II: Total War
* Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
* Mega Man X8
* Men of Valor
* Need for Speed Carbon
* Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2 Healing Hands
* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow
* Portal
* Project: Snowblind
* Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [Click here for detailed settings. Thanks, Vatsal!]
* Psychonauts
* Richard Burns Rally
* Roboblitz
* Serious Sam 2
* Silent Hill 3
* Silent Hill 4 (Performance > force SW TnL, Hardware Limits(cap bits) > all, Vendor ID 0, Device ID 0, ANTI DETECT MODE > shaders and textures ).
* Silent Hunter III
* Sniper Elite
* Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars
* Star Wars: Republic Commando (works with some texture problems)
* Sudeki
* Team Fortress 2
* Test Drive Unlimited
* The Godfather: The Game
* The House of the Dead III
* The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II
* The Matrix: Path of Neo
* Thief: Deadly Shadows
* Titan Quest
* Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
* Toca Race Driver 3 (launches, but isn’t playable)
* Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Lockdown
* Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
* Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
* Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
* Top Spin
* Total World Demo
* Wildlife Park 2
* Winning Eleven/ Pro Evolution Soccer series on PC (although playable frame rates are possible with a Geforce 4 MX if used with a fast enough CPU)
* Worms 4: Mayhem
* Virtua Tennis 3
* Crazy Taxi 3
* Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (requires hardware TnL, per EA.com Tech Support)
* F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (needs confirmation)
* F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate (needs confirmation)
* Genesis Rising: The Universal Crusade
* Loki: Heroes of Mythology (needs confirmation)
* The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
* X3: Reunion
* Battlefield 2
* Battlefield 2: Special Forces
* Battlefield 2142
* Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
* Hitman: Blood Money
* Star Trek: Legacy
* Resident Evil 4

http://crystalunicorn.wordpress.com/list-of-games-that-work-with-3d-analyze/

 

Without doing too much digging, I doubt that list is accurate. Last I heard, software emulation of graphic using processor cores had a lot of trouble running the original half life at decent resolutions. Certain games on that list (such as X3) are mostly def. impossible unless the service is something like on-live, which hasn't launched nor proven that is a viable platform for gaming.

 

I am doubtful about this as well. it just seems like there would be serious compatibility issues here.

 

Even though, will this not useful for those who have mid ranged GPUs to gain some more FPS?

 

Try it and tell us how it works

 

I have to agree seems difficult, but as others have said best way to find out is try it and see for yourself, would be great if it helped low end machines,

 

I can test it if you want, which of the games on the list is the smallest in size?

BTW I did test it with L4D a while back (I know it's not on the list) and I got 1 more extra frame per second. Didn't make the game playable though.

 

I've actually used it in the past, when I had the Inspiron 5100. I wasn't able to play GTA: Vice City or GTA: San Andreas without it.


So I can say it works, to an extent.

 

ive used it, and its good to emulate features your integrated or dedicated card dont support like shader features etc. It will require more cpu power and will not improve performance, it will decrease. Great tool for netbooks with limited GMA950.

 

3d-analyze is not a program to play games without graphics cards, but to emulate features needed by games that are not supported on your cards, for example, lego star wars need pixel shader but i had the famous geforce4 mx which didnt have pixel shader, so i used 3danalyze and could play it

If you really want to be able to play games without graphics cards, go to this site: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-cpu-gpu,6645.html

If you have a core i7, it is hyperthreaded to be able to do all graphics work on the cpu itself, if you read pcgamer or gamepro, i can't remember which one, you can play crysis on lowest at around 18fps with a core i7 965 without a gpu.

 

Pretty cool information on Windows 7.

I just have to point out that you cannot do much without a GPU. Every computer since the 386 PC has had a graphics card. Without a graphics card you wouldn't even get into Windows.

What 3D Analyzer does is emulate and/or disable features to make a game or program function when your GPU is incapable. It is only good enough for up to shader model 2 though.

I was able to get Resident Evil 4 to work on my previous notebook with the ATi x200m GPU, but it was too slow to play. I was only making about 5 to 8 frames per second. That was up until I used 3D Analyzer and checked 'force max pixel shader 1.1'. I got RE4 running at just over 15 frames per second by doing this and it was very playable.

Psychonauts and Painkiller are games that both require Hardware T&L. If you tried to start them up on an Intel video chipset they would refuse to start at all. I opened them both up with 3D Analyzer with 'emulate HW TnL caps' checked and they both started up and worked. They were somewhat playable too. They still ran a little slow though, but that's just because the Intel graphics cards are pathetic to begin with.

This is not one of those things where it sounds ridiculous and impossible. This program REALLY works!!! There were no graphics anomalies either! Try it and see for yourself. You could even force software T&L on some games and gain framerate in some cases!

 

Windows 7 Warp 10. Cool. It seemed CPU's were far outpacing GPU's lately. With all the cores being added it seemed something like this was inevitable. At least you could plan older games without a GPU. Funny how the non-GPU system ran faster than the Intel integrated GPU. If they can manage this through the CPU, it seems they should be able to significantly step up the performance of an integrated chip.

 

it works. i was using an old geforce 2mx or whatever its called to play guild wars and a few maps wouldnt load, so i had to use 3d analyzer to play them. the game looked funny with it on but at least it ran

 

I could attest to this. I was using a Lenovo with a GMA 950 a while back, and while it did do great on basic video games, of course it needed more ooomph with more recent games.

It will only really let you play games that have lowest requirements i.e. I played SWAT 4 smoother when I used it, but I could play SWAT 4 without it either (it requires HW TnL) as well as Half-Life, but it gave me like ~16fps with the lowest settings EXCLUDING gunfights. Then the most ambitious I got: I tried it with Need For Speed ProStreet. Well, it booted up until the main menu but crashes when I try to play. Haha. Really, it's just for low-end games that require one too many feature your card doesn't.

Although if you have let's say an integrated card from NVIDIA or ATI, then it might work well for you, just not for Intel/other integrated video cards, since they have the *least* feature with just good names.

 

So, I can get more fps if I use it in my 98m SLI to max out crysis.

 

Slayer366, are all your'e laptops old and obsolete?

 

Could I use this to push my quad core to work more efficiently with my GPUs? My gpus are always been stressed, but my processor hardly ever does any work (unless I'm playing a few choice RTS's).

 

Probably. You could emulate software shaders using this software I think, and what it does is offset the load to the CPU.. but it could only do up to Shader 2.0 though..

 

I always laugh at systems that have 3 GPU's and an i7

2 for SLI and the 3rd for PhysX... REALLY? a whole $100-200 for PhysX!?


So who wants to start thinking about using this to make games play better?!
Don't know what I am trying to say really... but you get my point...
(I need sleep)

 

Wha? Who has three GPU's? Whoa. I thought SLI was the ultimate.

 

The Sager 9850 has 2 gpus in sli and a 3rd for power saving, along with the MX17

 

It sounds like Swiftshader or Pixomatic, just used in an emulator rather than a rasterizer for a game engine. I've always had a graphics card that "works" unlike Intel's integrated which have/had horrid OpenGL support...

 

NO NO NO
I never said Dual 9800's plus 9400 because it's on the mobo in LAPTOPS.

I am talking DESKTOP wise, you can have tri-SLI, but it's complete BS to dedicate the third GPU to PhysX...


Anyways, a good Dual i7 system could probably run this Analyzer quite nice alongside of Dual GPU's and boost some FPS right?

 

Thats just Hybrid one and the 3rd GPU is useless in todays game.

 

I never commented on its usefulness, but it does have 3x gpus nonetheless.

 

He was talking about Tri Sli and you talked about that which basically points towards 3X GPUs.

 

Wouldn't Dual GPU's already rape the hell out of games? Why need 3DAnalyzer to boost the FPS?

The only thing I could think of that would definitely boost your fps is when you offload a lot of functions to the CPU instead of the GPU.. I can't remember which those are, but I think it has a dedicated box-like thingy in its window for CPU-controllable functions..

 

Hi All,

New to this forum, so nice to meet you guys. I am trying to use 3D-Analyze to play Psychonauts. But I have a problem. I keep getting an error:

The game was unable to create the Direct3D device. Please check to ensure your video drivers are installed properly. I have a Asus 901, and I have the drivers installed properly.

Any help would be appreciated.