Water not working right

link12827 · Post by **link12827** » 28 Apr 2007, 04:23

Water in Spring is not working for me for some reason, near the edges of land, it cuts through land, like its coming up vertically. ive seen this problem on the forums in other places, but none of those solutions worked for me. The water shows through the land when i zoom out too, and when fully zoomed out it looks like the map is filled with water
my graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400, and i have the most recent drivers
i would post pictures, but i just tried to and the forum told me i cant because im a new user
any help would be appreciated
if you want to see pictures, my spring looks like the picture in 'Edge of water totally screwed up' (if you search that, and go to page 4 that topic is right near the bottom)
thanks

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 28 Apr 2007, 04:37

turn up your Z-buffer from 16 to 24 bit in settings

AF · Post by AF » 28 Apr 2007, 17:22

The video card may be why....

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 Apr 2007, 20:32

Indeed, I play with 24 bit Z-buffer enabled and still have water clipping issues. Didn't exactly know where they come from though.

It's definitely the card as mine is a regular GF2.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 28 Apr 2007, 21:10

Does the GF2 even support 24 bit Z buffering?

(Spring probably just gets a 16 bit visual then even if it asks for 24 bit, without Spring even knowing about it...)

link12827 · Post by **link12827** » 29 Apr 2007, 04:14

yeah, ive tried on both 24 and 16 bit, so the card is probably the issue, oh well, still a fun game to play

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 30 Apr 2007, 17:25

A better graphics card than that is probably about ├é┬ú30 now.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 30 Apr 2007, 18:35

Does the GF2 even support 24 bit Z buffering?

Yeah it should.

edit: It supports up to 32-bit, 8 bit stencil buffer and 24 bit Z buffer

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 30 Apr 2007, 22:28

tooleh wrote:A better graphics card than that is probably about ├â┬»├é┬┐├é┬¢30 now.

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 01 May 2007, 13:07

When I had a GF2 MX400 it glitched with a tonne of things, like black & white :C

On the topic of water, how do we get that dynamic, rippling shader water that I keep seeing in videos and screenshots?

AF · Post by AF » 01 May 2007, 15:23

You need a 7800/7900 series card and XP sp2 to run it.

Vista 2k and 2k3 wont run it
8000 series cards give horrible artefacts
ATI cards and integrated graphics wont run it
6xxx series cards are too slow
FX series cards and below dont support it and would be too slow if they did.

Ontop fo that, its extremely laggy for what you get, The performance is terrible.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 01 May 2007, 20:31

Why does 2k not run it, what's so different from XP sp2?

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 01 May 2007, 20:37

That's pretty gay. Can't it be done with just a few shaders and water?

Whats wrong with ATI cards? (I have an x1650pro)

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 01 May 2007, 20:43

Bad OGL support.

AF · Post by AF » 01 May 2007, 23:14

the dynamic water shader is using an nvidia shader language.

That and bad ATi OpenGL support.

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 03 May 2007, 15:13

Wish I'd gone 7600GS now :C

link12827 · Post by **link12827** » 03 May 2007, 16:53

do you of any cheap graphics cards (around 60-80) that work really well with Spring, and that are really good overall?

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 03 May 2007, 17:56

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... &subid=356

You're not going to get REALLY GOOD for anything under ├â┬»├é┬┐├é┬¢100, but those *should* work well.

E: whats with this forum and pound signs.

EDIT 2: Judging by the PC you *may* need an AGP card, if that is the case get a 7600GS from here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... &subid=411

AF · Post by AF » 03 May 2007, 22:27

omg, an agp slot, sell it on ebay, they pay masses for antiques lolol..

tooleh · Post by **tooleh** » 03 May 2007, 23:45

Fuck you I have AGP ;p

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Water not working right

Water not working right