Yandros on 3/9/2009 at 02:32
After over a year with Vista and no fog, I now have it back!
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http://www.wearytaffer.com/screens/gloriousfog.jpgThanks to Bikerdude, who figured out that the lucky few Vista users who have fog all had HD-family ATI cards, and helped me find the right one for my slim desktop case, a Sapphire HD4650 low profile card. I had fog right out of the box without twiddling anything. For the record, my ATI drivers are 8.14.0010.0662 and I'm running ATI CCC version 2009.0428.2132.36839.
I'm ecstatic!
THANK YOU BIKERDUDE!I also launched St. Lucia real quick since the framerate was almost unplayable in the street areas running onboard graphics, and it was nice and smooth running at a high res (I think it was 1600x900).
daniel on 3/9/2009 at 02:40
Oh wow! Well, now that it can be done, maybe I'll upgrade. Yeah that's right, I make all my computing decisions based on Thief.:laff:
massimilianogoi on 3/9/2009 at 02:52
Me too, but I wait to have enough gol... ehm... money :laff:
In any case I would have to keep XP in some virtual machine due to 3dsmax 5.1, its license doesn't run on 64b OS.
There's some patch to run Thief 3 or 2 with correct proportions in my laptop, that is with 1280x800?
Yandros on 3/9/2009 at 03:38
Yes, I've used the widescreen path as well since I got my new monitor a few months ago. The card I got was surprisingly cheap - since I could only get a low profile card for my slim case, the best card was the 4650, which was only US $57 shipped. I was expecting closer to $100.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102829)
jtr7 on 3/9/2009 at 03:42
WOOOT!
Victory is ours! Thanks Bikerdude and Yandros and ATI!
\o/
massimilianogoi on 3/9/2009 at 03:48
In truth, my question meant other.
lost_soul on 3/9/2009 at 04:23
A lack of fog has never bothered me as much as the 16-bit/dithering problem. That one just sticks out like a sore thumb, whereas fog is only visible on a few maps. When I was playing another game that had dithering issues years ago, a friend of mine said, "wow that looks all 256!" referring to a 256 color pallet. :)
mudi on 3/9/2009 at 04:24
I don't have fog with a HD4550 and windows 7 :(
Oh wait, I think someone said it was because ddfix doesn't support it. With how long my monitor takes to switch resolutions I'm not really willing to give up ddfix either :tsktsk:
jtr7 on 3/9/2009 at 04:47
It's not just DDFix that hasn't been updated for it (can it be updated for it?), but most video cards don't.
Random_Taffer on 3/9/2009 at 04:49
Got an HD 2600 XT. I sometimes have fog, but it randomly goes away, typically giving me a few rare moments of happy.
