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the-middleman
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Auswaschbar
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SHUT UP, SERIOUSLY. Do you listen to yourself, I have and ATI card, and a crappay 3.2ghz celeron with 512mb ram, and run full settings just fine. Not too sure about the card's name, but it is a 256mb pci-express, so yea, you need something more high end, and ATI cards in my opinion work much better for gaming then Nvidia, I admit, the Nvidia's get much better fps and run way smoother, but ATI cards, as long as I've had them have had support for more in opengGL earlier then Nvidia. But, yea, you want to see that, get an nvidia, because everyone buys them, and they work better with linux then ati.
What drivers do you have? I can run it just fine, but I get really weird streaky reflections.Auswaschbar wrote:Works fine on my gf8500Peet wrote:You buy a high-end nvidia card (but not the gf8 because it doesnt work on them) and turn on the dynamic water option.
Ok, show me a screenshot with dynamic water running, with some nice waves after an explosion.rcdraco wrote:blather
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Auswaschbar
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x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.11Peet wrote:What drivers do you have? I can run it just fine, but I get really weird streaky reflections.Auswaschbar wrote:Works fine on my gf8500Peet wrote:You buy a high-end nvidia card (but not the gf8 because it doesnt work on them) and turn on the dynamic water option.
nonsense.
GF8 series cards can run dynamic water but its a horrible fps hog and there are those horrible lines where reflection highlights are then stretched in a line to the top left corner of the map.
And that stuff about ATI and better openGL is even more rubbish. ATI has a poor OpenGL track record, they've always prioritized DirectX and as a result OGL has suffered on their cards. Do you not wonder why nvidia is better for linux? Everything in linux is OpenGL! And because ATi have let OGL slide and focused on the windows only DirectX so have their Linux drivers suffered.
So no, if you have dynamic water running on an ATI card either your muddled up or your lieing. No ATI card has the stuff needed to implement dynamic water, mainly because dynamic water uses an nvidia shader language ATI cards will never support IIRC.
GF8 series cards can run dynamic water but its a horrible fps hog and there are those horrible lines where reflection highlights are then stretched in a line to the top left corner of the map.
And that stuff about ATI and better openGL is even more rubbish. ATI has a poor OpenGL track record, they've always prioritized DirectX and as a result OGL has suffered on their cards. Do you not wonder why nvidia is better for linux? Everything in linux is OpenGL! And because ATi have let OGL slide and focused on the windows only DirectX so have their Linux drivers suffered.
So no, if you have dynamic water running on an ATI card either your muddled up or your lieing. No ATI card has the stuff needed to implement dynamic water, mainly because dynamic water uses an nvidia shader language ATI cards will never support IIRC.
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Auswaschbar
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Its neither a fps hog nor have I seen any graphic bugs until now. Proof is here: http://freenet-homepage.de/auswaschbar/tropical.jpgAF wrote:GF8 series cards can run dynamic water but its a horrible fps hog and there are those horrible lines where reflection highlights are then stretched in a line to the top left corner of the map.
