Can I make a little survay here? You tell me, if not I will delete this post. This is to know a little things to start developing a new adventure game this year:

Do you know what video card do you have?

Do you know if your video card suport shaders? if yes, what model of shaders? (1, 2, 3 or 4)

Do you have plans to buy a new video card in the next 12 months?

Do you prefer 2.5D adventure games, 3D games or it is the same to you if the game is good by itself?

No problem, Dreamweb. Keep us posted on your new project.

Yes, I know my video card. ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum
No, I don't know if it support shader off hand. I can check.
No, I don't have any plans to buy a new video card.
Same to me as long as the game is good.

Thanks MaG

Please, tell me what video card do you have.

This new adventure is currently on pre-production, and we want to do it with shaders only, even in 2.5D. BS4 require shader 1, but I don’t know if most adventure gamers support it.

The game will be a tradition point and click adventure game about a young scientist looking for his own past and identity while reaching for a new chemical formula that will became the key to understand human personality and feelings and how to induce them pharmacologically.

Hi Dreamweb,

I have dual SLI EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 7900 GT 256MB PCIE video cards

Not sure about the shaders

Not buying any new cards

I have no preference as long as the game is good and easy to maneuver.

on your project. Can't wait to hear more about it.

Ana

I have a GeGorce 7600GT, Full Directx 9.0 Shader 3.0 Support
No plans on buying a new card

I have a GeForce 7800 GTX. Not sure if it supports shaders, though with what I paid for it, if it doesn't support them I was taken for a ride.

I don't have plans to buy a new video card. I like both 2.5D and 3D -- though I've noticed that navigation through a 3D environment is almost always more problematic than through a 2.5D environment.

Radeon X700 PRO. AGP

I have no plans to buy a new card at this time.

2.0b shader support.

I like both 2D and 3D games.

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC, my card supports Shader Model 4 and is DX 10. No plans for an update for a long time after buying this

Radeon X800 XT Platinum AGP. I really like it, and don't have any plans to buy a new one (until the games force me to anyway). How can you tell about shader support? I don't know. SM2- (thanks Butcher)

I prefer 2.5D adventure games. Good luck on your game Dreamweb!

GeForce 6600 GT, which supports shaders although I have no idea which model. Only fairly recently upgraded, so I'm not planning to buy a new card for a good while yet. 2D, 3D, whichever, I don't mind, the game just has to be GOOD!

GeForce 6200 OC AGP 256Mb

Box says Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0

Just bought this one a few months ago, no plans to buy a new one any time soon.

2D/3D not important, just a good game that plays smooth, no graphics issues.

I can identify with the young scientist searching his past and looking for his identity, but I shudder at his career goals. The pharmaceutical companies have more ads on TV than used car salesmen. I don't want them invading adventure games too! Aargh!
To answer the question I have a Nvidea GeForce 7900 GS. I have no idea what "shaders" are as this is the first I have ever heard of them. I prefer 2D to 3D and I like a third person interface.

The best card I have is a Radeon X800SE (half the pipelines of a regular X800). I have a Geforce FX 5700 in another computer.

Both support shaders, but I don't know which version of shaders.

I am hoping to build a new computer soon (with my brother's help), but I've been hoping to do that for some months now and something always comes up.

2D, 2.5D, or 3D doesn't matter if the interface is good. But I tend to have motion sickness problems with first person real time 3D games if the point of view is too close to the ground (which is most of the time). And 2D first person games that use soft edge-panning also give me nausea. Given the choice between a great game that gives me nausea and a mediocre game that doesn't, I tend to opt for the latter.

The X800s support SM 2.

In the end, all will be the same; fortunately the story goes more deep that a pharmaceutical advertise! that's for sure; the interesting thing is how human brain works and how is it related to feelings and personality, imagine if you can change that with a pill. Our character will understand that and that's the interesting part of the story. The overall plot have a Gabriel Knight feeling but with a more scientist approach.

THANKS everybody for the answers, we surely will choose 2,5D with shaders that will be something new and cool and every of you can play in yours videocards. We are adapting our 3D engine we have used for "Get a Life show", a game that's something like a "Jones in the fast line" remake.