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...nice water like this?

You buy a high-end nvidia card (but not the gf8 because it doesnt work on them) and turn on the dynamic water option.

does it have to be a nvidea card? Cause I got dynamic water turned on and its not showing these nice waves.
I hope this is not one of these "The way its meant to be played" games

I got ati

ATI cards do not have the necessary openGL support to run dynamic water.

darn...

Peet 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.

Works fine on my gf8500

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.

In other words, you buy a nice graphix card.

I think my Sapphire (ATI) raedon 8600XT runs dynamic water, I dont remember cause I dont use that computer ever.

But my 7900GTO sure as hell does : D!

Auswaschbar wrote:

Peet 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.

Works fine on my gf8500

What drivers do you have? I can run it just fine, but I get really weird streaky reflections.

rcdraco wrote:blather

Ok, show me a screenshot with dynamic water running, with some nice waves after an explosion.

Peet wrote:

Auswaschbar wrote:

Peet 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.

Works fine on my gf8500

What drivers do you have? I can run it just fine, but I get really weird streaky reflections.

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.11

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.

AF 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.

Its neither a fps hog nor have I seen any graphic bugs until now. Proof is here: http://freenet-homepage.de/auswaschbar/tropical.jpg

Thats not dynamic water that's reflective+refractive. Jelmer wrote that one, SJ wrote dynamic water.

If you had dynamic water there'd be big circular ripples and splash, yet that water shows only refractive distortion, no geometry distortion.