Jester09 Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Hi all! I cannot seem to get my Fog to show up on screen. I have toggled through all the hotkeys (Shift-W and any others I thought might work). I have a brand new computer: P4 with all the bells and whistles. Could it by my monitor? Its a few years old, but certainly not ancient. Any other tips or sugggestions would be great. My gaming buddy keeps telling me how cool it looks and I am getting very jealous <grin>. Thanks! Curtis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmead Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 If you have an ATI video card you will not see any fog as ATI cards/drivers do not support it. Its likely time to buy a new Geforce card... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAsta_KFC Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Does this apply to the 9700 pros aswell? Is it just a driver or hardware problem? DOes anyone know whether this will be fixed in the future or not? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 This is a driver problem that is true of all ATI video cards running under DirectX. ATI has not supported - and most likely will never support - fog-tables / particle fog effects under DirectX. To my knoweldge (which is very fuzzy regarding this point) particle fog effect support does not mesh very well with the vertex programming in ATI's video drivers - hence it is highly doubtful that ATI will ever support the fog effects that CMB0 & CMBB need. No 'tweaker' program such as the Rage3D Tweak will change this, despite the program's registry enabling of Z-, W- and Fog-table support. The code just doesn't exist for fog-tables / particle fog. The type of fog effects that ATI supports is 'vertex fog', which doesn't look as nice as particle fog and CM isn't programmed for. The next engine might be written in the OpenGL Graphics API for the PC (it definitely will be for the Mac) and this may change the support of some features (though I doubt that ATI will support fog-tables under OpenGL either). However since it will be over two years from now before CM II / CM3 will be released, quite a few details can change, such as what type of code might make it into CM and what ATI will support at that time, etc. [ March 21, 2003, 02:28 AM: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAsta_KFC Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Might get a 9700 pro anyway. The thought of 4xFSAA+ ani is too good to miss. Thanks though! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 the 9700 is a great card, but it is overkill for CMBB. I have a 1.2 ghz Athlon with a GF4 ti4200 and I play CMBB @1024x768 with 4xs FSAA and 8xaniso and having fog really adds to the atmosphere of the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 damn no fog for the 9700? ah well still getting it tho 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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