Ogi on 28/8/2006 at 14:26
Recently I bought a video card and I replaced it with the former one I had - MX440. Before everything worked fine. Now, since I placed my new card -XFX6200 AGP 8x (my mainboard is 4x) I experience some problems with the textures in Thief 2. All textures contain huge pixels and there is no smooth transition from one color to another. I was wondering whether I have problems with the incompatability between Thief 2 and XFX6200 or I have problems because of my mainboard's AGP BUS.
BTW Thief 1 works perfect, as well as Deadly shadows.
There's a screenshot and you cans see the strange textures I get.
Inline Image:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/weadford/detail?.dir=9041&.dnm=3303re2.jpg&.src=phThanks!
Vigil on 28/8/2006 at 14:49
Well, the crappiness of the sky in that screenshot is a problem with the way Geforce6 and newer cards handle transparency - it occurs to all semi-transparent objects, but shows up most noticeably in the clouds. There's no known solution unfortunately, as it seems particular to the hardware rather than the driver version.
However, besides that I don't see what you mean about huge pixels and no smooth transitions - is this a problem that affects regular walls and objects as well as the sky? Could you post more screenshots to elaborate?
Vigil on 31/8/2006 at 16:23
The water and the model skins look fine (or rather, they look how I would expect them to look on a different card) but the rest all are clear symptoms of the Geforce6 Just Plain Ugly Transparency syndrome.
SlyFoxx on 31/8/2006 at 16:40
Have G6200...looks about the same. It's a case of "it is what it is.":erg:
june gloom on 31/8/2006 at 22:01
guess i'm gonna get a geforce 7 then. :/
Vigil on 31/8/2006 at 22:05
They have the same problem, as far as I know.
june gloom on 31/8/2006 at 23:27
strange, i've been trying to find something on the old intertron about this, but i'm not getting anything.
could it be something involving transparent-AA?
Ogi on 1/9/2006 at 14:42
Ok, is there anything I can do. I really can't work like this. I can't use the full potential of Dromed, just because everything looks disguisting. Do you guys just accept it and work with the crappy textures and effects?
