You can register the engine by rightclicking on cryengine.cryengine file and select register engine. Its located where the engine is installed.

Yeah i would get a better GPU. The Intel HD cards arent officially supported. Are you running a desktop or laptop? Most likely a laptop i would guess.

Emulating it will probably never work right.

Yes

Expanding the existing one makes little sense since they wan't to go away from that old one. It needs to die. The new one isn't bad, just very buggy for now.

OpenGL is not supported anymore. It never really worked right anyways. CE 5.5 Editor requires DX11 to work. DX12 and Vulkan support for the Editor will come later.

What GPU do you have?

Crytek is redoing the Material Editor and as you can see from the roadmap there is a node graph for shaders in development but that's probably further down the line.

Only need to make a shader to handle the job, so no CRYENGINE is not useless for it. It's up to the dev team handling the task.

Yes its broken in the Editor. Works fine where it's needed though in the game launcher.

Legacy Entities is available from the GameSDK. Just copy the scripts.pak and entities.xml from the GameSDK in. The new thing which is still under development is Components which will take over for Legacy Entities, but its not there just yet. Just create a project in the Launcher and use the type of ...

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