| Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #165385] |
Fri, 05 August 2005 05:41  |
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s0meSkunk
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Does anyone know of a place to get a patch to enable DXT1, or curved textures on nvidia cards???
Both are disabled, so...yea. Anyone?
Thank you.
"Sexy Kick!!!"
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| Re: Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #165394 is a reply to message #165385] |
Fri, 05 August 2005 08:40  |
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Dave Anderson
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In the manual it says that option will only be available if your graphics card supports it. No matter what graphics card I have had I have never had the option available.
David Anderson
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DCOM Productions
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| Re: Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #165613 is a reply to message #165394] |
Sun, 07 August 2005 08:19 |
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s0meSkunk
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Well, Curved Textures is an ATi thing, cards with Truform can do it.
But, not only that, but DXT1 is also disabled on all Nvidia cards.
I guess it's not too important though.
"Sexy Kick!!!"
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| Re: Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #165953 is a reply to message #165385] |
Wed, 10 August 2005 06:23 |
JPNOD
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I had a friend with a Radeon X600 - just a 9600 Actually he was able to turn it on, I have various of Geforce Cards. But I didnt see the difference on the side of Hourglass.
WOL nick: JPNOD
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| Re: Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #165990 is a reply to message #165385] |
Wed, 10 August 2005 18:06 |
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Dave Anderson
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Well, Curved Textures is an ATi thing, cards with Truform can do it.
But, not only that, but DXT1 is also disabled on all Nvidia cards.
I guess it's not too important though.
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My ATI card has trueform...but I still cannot enable it. (128MB ATI Radeon 9200 SE BTW)
David Anderson
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DCOM Productions
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| Re: Renegade nvidia card patch. [message #166039 is a reply to message #165385] |
Thu, 11 August 2005 08:26 |
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s0meSkunk
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Well, I asked about modded drivers and what not.
They told me curved surfaces is just an ATi thing, because ATi cards do something called "npatching" to make surfaces look smoother. It's not needed in newer games. Also not possible to mod a driver for it. They also mentioned it causes a hard performance hit. So it's probably not worth the almost unnoticable graphical gain.
They also told me DXT1 textures are supported by nvidia cards, so I still don't know why they're disabled across all nvidia platforms.
Enabling DXT1 textures would most likely need a game specific patch.
And, what's up XPtek? I remember you from somewhere or another in Renegade. It's been a while.
"Sexy Kick!!!"
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