Pls Help me set up this Geforce 6800

[Zak33]

why do I need it?

I dont

but needs are funny things.

[Skii]

Wierd this one Zak, there are some seriously happy peeps with 6800 cards on the Ubi and SimHq forums, so theres obviously something amiss here..

[Zak33]

agreed..but the Rad's back in and although this is a "get it done to get out of the house" screenie, it looks so much better moving.
So...6800


and Radeon 9800 Pro


ok I hit Print Screen at the WRONG time for the ripples to show, but you cant see gradients on the water colours anymore.

PLUS the AA is working much better....

Its a tricky one..I grant ya. Card goes to someone else tomorrow to have a play. Its not for THIS bloke cos its not a pilots card

but for a 1st Person Shooter is is awesome

[Zak33]

oh and by the way....the Radeon went straight in, no driver trouble, and ran at 1280x960 on the first go...the 6800 that I had would not run 1280 in Il2!!!!

[Jiff Lemon]

Obviously a faulty card.....

£50 guvnor, take it off yer hands,I'll pop it the missus's machine... she only does 2d stuff...

What???? You got try aint ya?

[Skii]

try this in your conf.ini fole - copy and paste the lot m8

[Render_OpenGL]
TexQual=3
TexMipFilter=2
TexCompress=2
TexFlags.UseDither=1
TexFlags.UseAlpha=0
TexFlags.UseIndex=0
TexFlags.PolygonStipple=1
TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0
TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=1
TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=1
TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0
TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1
TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1
TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1
TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0
TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0
TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1
TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=1
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=1

HardwareShaders=1

Shadows=2
Specular=2
SpecularLight=2
DiffuseLight=2
DynamicalLights=1
MeshDetail=2
VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2
Forest=2
LandShading=3
LandDetails=2

LandGeom=2
TexLarge=1
TexLandQual=3
TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=15
Water=1

[Zak33]

Skii...that is a copy of what I already had...thanks for trying but its just not the right card for this game

EITHER the drivers are making bad calls OF the texture units that are mising on this card and that ARE available on the GT /Ultra cards DO some of the other work to make other cards better.

However...I think its a driver issue, for this series of cards. Am sure NVIDIA wil sort it.

Meantime....its going off to Tarinder, who is gonna rip the hell out of it for a review.

Radeon9800 Zakky is back

and thanks Skii for all your input

[Zak33]

as a side note...the TexCompress is 0 for No Texture Compression, 1 for 16 bit and 2 for S3TC.

Tried all three.

Also tried changing the Mip Mapping in the nVidia control panel

[Skii]

No worries m8

shame

[Zak33]

its life....

just gotta thing X800 really

[Capt Doufos]

You running OpenGL or Direct3D you tried both?

It looks Awesome on my X800XT Even better than on my 9800Pro. Not to mention you can have it sharp all the way to the Horizon.

[Zak33]

Capt Doufos...

STOP IT

I lust after that card

[Capt Doufos]

I'll post screenies when I am back home if you like




Seriously though. They support pretty much the same instruction sets so you should be able to get it looking the same.

You tried installing a new copy into a different directory? I am certain my graphics improved after I did that.

[Skii]

ftp://download.nvidia.com/developer/...x_Textures.pdf