always night

[airslo]

Hello all, when I play on my pc it works fine, however when I play on my surface pro 2..its always dark... any ideas?
Thanks
slo

 

[giladteller]

Hi,
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As far as I know, the Surface Pro 2 has an intel integrated graphics card, which is not supported.

 

[airslo]

Thanks for the reply. True the surface does not have a dedicated graphics card but it does have the newest processor which elevates the need for one. It plays civ v with no issue heck it even plays battlefield it really should play cim.

 

[XanosEU]

True the surface does not have a dedicated graphics card but it does have the newest processor which elevates the need for one. It plays civ v with no issue heck it even plays battlefield it really should play cim.

Just pure power does not compensate that a game or engine just does not supports a certain platform.
For example no matter how powerful your mobile phone processor (most likely an ARM) is, it will not be able to run applications written for a standard x86 or x64 Desktop processor.
Of course there is not such a hard line between dedicated or built-in graphics as there is one between different processor architectures. However, the interfaces of Intel / AMD / NVidia graphics just aren't the same.
And although modern processors may have powerful graphics, if a game or engine is not compatible to it you can not really do something about it as user.

 

[Erisiah]

airslo, I'm playing CiM2 on a Surface Pro 2 as well, and I've found that turning off Ambient Occlusion really brightened up the scenery.

I took a screenshot of the settings that I use on my tablet. Maybe that will help you?