Shader Model 2 Patch Splinter Cell

Hi, I'm new to these forums and I am having a small problem with this game. I just recently purchased it through the Steam Winter sale. Specifically, the game will not run with Shader Model 3.0 even though (I believe) my hardware is more than capable of running this game.

Aug 03, 2005 Ubisoft released a new patch for splinter cell, in this update they included support for Shader Model 2.0, which was previously unsopported. The lack of parallax mapping and soft shadows is very noticeable between the 1.1 and 2.0 profile shots. The lighting between the 2.0 and 3. Microsoft Virtual Cd Rom Utility. 0 profile shots, however.

I am trying to run it with a Dell XPS laptop running an i7 processor and GT540M (2GB) graphics card. Shader model 1.1 and 2.0 appear to work fine however whenever I enable 3. Pimps Hos here. 0, the entire game morphs into black and white. Hopefully someone can help me out.

By John Reynolds Introduction When Ubisoft released the newest title in their Splinter Cell series of stealth-action games earlier this year, there was a certain amount of controversy surrounding the visual effects the game supported. Or, perhaps more aptly put, the controversy was based on the fact that Chaos Theory shipped with no support for Shader Model 2.0, largely viewed by the online graphics community as an inflection point for games coded to support DX9-level technology since it is supported by both ATI and NVIDIA hardware, whereas only the latter’s chips currently support SM3.0. The shader profiles found in the shipping game supported SM1.1 and SM3.0, which left those owning graphics boards based on ATI chips limited to the 1.1 profile and its lack of additional features, such as parallax mapping and high quality soft shadows. These visual effects were considered to be artificially, and unfairly, limited to the SM3.0 profile, and various message boards hummed with conspiracy theories and rumors as to why Chaos Theory shipped in such a state. Yet now with the recently released 1.04 patch for the game, an additional shader profile for SM2.0 support has been added to the game, available only for ATI hardware, and this article will detail the shader profile performance differences using an ATI Radeon X800 XT and a NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT graphics boards.