Shadows under Radeon HD3850 + Catalyst 8.3

[slogic]

Shadows absence makes unit view really ugly. 3850 is a middle-end video card & i wonder, why the absence of just GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow degrades the game view. 3850 supports GL_ARB_shadow & GL_ARB_shadow_ambient. Isn't impossible to develop another algorithm for shadows if required OpenGL extension is absent?

[[Krogoth86]]

Use Catalyst 7.11 to fix that or try if the changes described HERE fix that too...

Apart from that you don't want to turn on shadows anyway because the stencils used in Spring aren't really suited for a RTS as it will bring your system to a crawl very fast...

[slogic]

Evidently i will not use old drivers because there are plenty of other games which require up-to-date drivers. I'm just asking about updating the source code to avoid using of that OpenGL extension cause there are a LOT of users with Catalyst 8.x.

[slogic]

PS. Here is a possible fix i guess (for developers): http://www.gpgpu.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10627#10627 ?

[slogic]

I found a possible fix: replace atioglxx.dll with similar one from 7.11. I'll try tonight & report.

Also i posted i ticket to ATI Tech Support asking why they removed an extension.

[AF]

You do know catalyst 8.4 is out?

[slogic]

Yep. I haven't downloaded it yet but read changelog. Nothing new to OpenGL support. So?

[slogic]

Replacing atioglxx.dll does nothing. Replacing atioglx2.dll makes Spring not launching silenlty.