shader emulator?

Hi.

are their any shader emulators that work.

my laptop only supports dx7 in hardware.

thanks.

John.

 

try "3d analyzer", it pretty much emulates anything

http://www.tommti-systems.de/go.html?http://www.tommti-systems.com/main-Dateien/files.html

 

What's it for?
If it's because you want to play games that require more advanced features, you can try with the above program, but don't expect too much. There's a reason shaders *require* hardware support. They are insanely expensive to compute, and without GPU support, everything will slow to a crawl. DirectX used to support software emulation of every feature.... Until shaders. With those, it's just not worth the bother generally, because it'll totally kill performance.

The tool above *might* be able to come up with a few cheats (Looks like it can force smaller features and recompile shader programs and a bunch of other stuff which might save some performance, even if visual quality will suffer), but don't expect miracles.

If you're asking because you want to write shader programs yourself, the DirectX SDK comes with a software emulator (The reference rasterizer, or RefRast) which does *everything* in software. It also runs something like 60 times slower than normal hardware supported graphics...