Yep, the 7800 supports SM3.0 which the game requires. My systems not far off yours, Athlon XP 3000+ but with an ATI X850XT, this still plays some of the recent releases just fine so why drop support for SM2.0 is beyond me, unless they ported the textures straight off the 360 version and couldn't be arsed to recompile them?

As of right now the game is hardly worth playing. It may get alot better with updates, but I'm not sure. I have a good rig, and I have to lower almost all settings and disable HDR, AA and whatever to get a decent framerate. Let's hope for heavy improvements in the future.

I've got Ati Radeon x600/x550? Can I start the game or not? Does my graphic card supports that Sm 3.0 :confused: or not?

No, it does not. I think X1600 is the lowest that has PS 3.0.

Here's the Patch description... doesn't say to much about graphical improvements...

Anybody made a no-DVD for the patched version yet? The old no-DVD .exe replacement works fine, but I noticed that the patch changes the .exe too so a new no-DVD .exe is needed.

It didn't change my EXE, so are you sure about that? I also had all the improvements of the patch with the original EXE.

I only payed attention to the last files of the loading queue (since I only play the versus mode) and SCDA_online.exe was listed among them.

I haven't looked for actual changes, though. I did go back to the previous version after the install since people couldn't connect properly to my host anymore when using the 1.0 no-DVD patch.

Will it run on my system???

Intel Pentium 4 2.66
Asus P5RD1-VM Mobo
ATI Radeon X550 256mb/512 hypermem
40 gb HDD IDE Seagate
80 gb HDD IDE Seagate
512 mb GEIL DDR400

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I just made a working full image of the game with virtual cd v8 :D
Just like BF2142

But it's not possible to burn a working dvd. I have to leave the data on my hard drive

Geee... Ok ok.. :) but you don't have to shout at me...

MacBryce: Yes, it changes the online-exe, but not the offline one. That's really nothing unusual. When did a game work online with a cracked exe anyways?

I can confirm that you don't need a new crack .exe to play SDDA v1.1. Just like for v1.00, you just have to mount the image thru DT v4.06, run YASU, then play.

Among other new releases like Dark Messiah, Gothic 3, and NWN 2, this is the only game where performance is good on my aging 6800Ultra and there are no game-freezing bugs.

v1.1 ONLINE won´t run with YASU and the other method with deactivating cd-drives...SP runs great...do someone know a method to run online 1.1 without dvd? i´m too lazy to put my dvd everytime inside...

ive read on a few sites that running SCDA a Windows Vista without a 2.0 card will work,I do not know if this is true cause im not using vista RC1 nor do i have the game because of no 2.0 support.Just telling what I have read elsewhere about it running on vista.

The package states "XP Only".

Running an unfinished game on an unfinished operating system...? bold! :D

I wouldn't call it running. I managed to get decent framerates on parts of the first level. Meh! This game is in SERIOUS need of big patching.

Seriously, I could give a c*** about single player and the online game doesn't work with YASU. I'm not going to have that DVD in there the entire day, so I need a patch to solve that.

Not many games whatsoever is playable online when cracked. It's a quite safe bet to say that you will never play this game online with anything else than the original disc in the drive.

Hi guys.
I have a mysterious problem. In Chapter 4, i must stolen a liquid from a safe in a briefing room. But when i will hack the safe nothings happend. The circles dont turn. But it works in other levels.

So i wrote to UBIsoft and they tell me that they know the bug and i should send my log and my SERIAL to UBIsoft.

So my question: Is this a trick to find out illegal game copy, because i play it with a crack from gcw.

nope, as I don't use a crack and I also have safes which won't open. Not the one you mention, but two others...

Ok, I don't read Chinese. Sorry

Chinese???

Yes, (the installation program of) that no-CD patch (or whatever) is in a language with a non-Latin character set. (Might be Chinese, Japanese, Arabian; actually, it doesn't matter much for English speakers...)

aha, ok

i just took the one from gcw (there is no installer included ;-))

This is what worked for me. Installed the game. (this is important :) )
1. Update/patch to version 1.1 (splinter_cell_double_agent_1_00_to_1_01)
26MB.
2. Mount the NS-SCDAMI.MDS Maxi-Image in DAEMON Tools v4.06 (SPTD v1.37)
3. Activate YASU
4. Execute the SCDALauncher from ?:\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
5. Play the Game!

Hi! I have the original game, installed the latest patch (1.02), but I cannot launch the game from the desktop! The game seems to be launching, a screen begins to open but then stops halfway and I get this error message: "Splinter Cell exe. has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." The "Hardware Detection Tool" passed my system in all the tests (Pentium 4 / 3.20GHz with Hyperthreading, MSI Geforce 6800GT / 256MB and 1GB of RAM). So, if I even have the "recommended settings" why doesn't it work? Is anyone having the same problem, which has nothing to do with the 3.0 shaders issue because my graphic card has them? Thanks in advance!

Read the forum FAQ.

I read the FAQ and everything that is suggested there...I have! I always keep EVERYTHING in my system uptaded and I mean EVERYTHING! So, the problem is somewhere else! Thanks anyway for trying to help! Best Regards!

This is not Ubisoft's technical support. Go ask them for general tech help.

i know 1 thing this games looks good but is full with fault and bugs and i've got also that problem with the shader som1 found a patch for that?