MrSpkr Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Hey folks. Just got a new laptop and having problems getting fog to show up in CMBB or CMAK. AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL-50, 1.60 GHz, 1 GB RAM, running 32-bit Vista. Video card is an nVidia GeForce Go 6150 with 64MB on board RAM and sharing up to 192MB more. Driver is version 7.15.10.9815, dated February 27, 2007. Any ideas why I can't get fog to work? Smoke has no problems, video runs fine otherwise. And yes, I've tried hitting the Shift+W combo to turn it on and off. Steve [ June 24, 2007, 07:24 PM: Message edited by: MrSpkr ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Maybe that's a generic Vista problem, aka they dropped DirectX5? We have seen reports that 64 bit Vista does not work for CMx1 and that 32 bit Vista does work. However, nobody there confirmed that fog is present. You certainly want to edit your subject line to say "under Vista". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Done. I've never had a problem with nVidia cards and fog tables before. This is annoying. Perhaps when I get the new play toy, I should have my computer guru install XP Pro? Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 We need to see whether Vista drivers are actually the problem here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 A correction. CMX1 does work under Vista 32 and 64 bit without fog, however Nvidia 8800 cards seem to have a problem. I just loaded CMAK and was playing fine with Vista 64 bit. However fog does NOT show up. Rune 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 So NVidia finally decided to drop fog tables, too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 How is fog emulated in other games (like 1st person shooters)? Will BFC be able to reprogram to address this change? Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Originally posted by MrSpkr: How is fog emulated in other games (like 1st person shooters)? Will BFC be able to reprogram to address this change? Steve It's trivial. But there's no question that BFC won't touch the CMx1 codebase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 Originally posted by Redwolf: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by MrSpkr: How is fog emulated in other games (like 1st person shooters)? Will BFC be able to reprogram to address this change? Steve It's trivial. But there's no question that BFC won't touch the CMx1 codebase. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 If they were willing to do that they had done the switch to modern fog APIs during CMx1 heyday when ATI already refused to support them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 sad, but it's inevitable that newer hardware and software will stop supporting older games. One more reason to hang on to my 7900 and XP though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Well, yeah, but, to quote myself here: The problem is not that the game is 6 years old. The problem is that the game uses an API that is 10 years old. DirectX 5 was released July 16, 1997. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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