Do Shader Emulators Work ?
 

The 3danalyze thing, is it really a workable program to allow an obsolete graphics card (GeForce 4 mx integrated) and system to play games that require pixel shaders ?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=3danalyze&meta=

Does it work at all and how well ? Are there *other* programs for the same purpose too ?

Any info & opinions much appreciated, as I'm a busy indebted university student with no free cash.

There is no such thing (to my knowledge) as an emulator for any level of pixel shading. Transform and Lighting is/was the most basic element of 3D, introduced close to ten years ago, and ignored by Intel until late last year. Most Intel IGPs require something such as 3Danalyze (T&L emulation) to do anything at all in 3D.

FYI, the "MX" was actually a GF2, and thus about seven years old. It was renamed five years ago to "GF4" without doing anything at all to upgrade it. You need to either buy a computer from this century, or at least upgrade that atrociously awful thing to a card from the shader century.