Radeon 8500 with NFS High Stakes
Anybody have this combination? If you do does the fog work in the game. Alot of older ATI hardware had problems with implementing fog into games especially High Stakes. .
Anybody have this combination? If you do does the fog work in the game. Alot of older ATI hardware had problems with implementing fog into games especially High Stakes.
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Supposedly ATI released new XP drivers yesterday:
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/r...&cmdNext=GO!
I guess those ARE the 6071s?
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/r...&cmdNext=GO!
I guess those ARE the 6071s?
I remember asking this somewhere before but I not only forgot where but I forgot what the answer was: Does the Radeon 8500 support 8 bit paletted textures?
8-bit palletted support in all ATI cards is pretty much non-existent. As for my fog question apparently there is some hack out there that modifies the registry to point from Z-buffering FOG to W-buffering FOG. Search the forums of http://www.rageunderground.com for NFS in the Radeon section.
Damn, there go my hopes of playing Terminal Velocity again...
I'm not entirely sure about 8-bit palletted support Admiral. Try asking at http://www.rageunderground.com or http://www.rage3d.com all I know is that my Rage Pro and Rage 128 Pro didn't have it and the original Radeon core didn't either.
Quote:Damn...tell me more about the Radeon 8500, I was going to buy one in the next week or so. How does it scale up to the task? Driver problems? Compatibility?
Its a beauty of a card.
Crisp, fast and definatly useful.
Dual monitor (retial version comes with DVI to VGA converter) is great....and the second monitor I have running at 1600x1200.
As far as drivers go, I only ran into one problem. When I was playing freedom force, characters and objects 'streaked' or flashed across the screen. I got the 6071's and I havent had the problem yet.
Card is extremely stable, runs great and I can OC mine to 300/300 stable (probably can go higher, but the vid card isnt my bottleneck anymore - damn tbird).
Its a beauty of a card.
Crisp, fast and definatly useful.
Dual monitor (retial version comes with DVI to VGA converter) is great....and the second monitor I have running at 1600x1200.
As far as drivers go, I only ran into one problem. When I was playing freedom force, characters and objects 'streaked' or flashed across the screen. I got the 6071's and I havent had the problem yet.
Card is extremely stable, runs great and I can OC mine to 300/300 stable (probably can go higher, but the vid card isnt my bottleneck anymore - damn tbird).
Fog does work on the Radeon 8500. I have a Radeon 8500 LE 128 meg built by ATI, and all you need is this simple fix. Using the 6.13.10.6094 Catalyst 2.1 drivers.
http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/radeon.htm
Or if you have NFS: Porsche Unleashed just use its d3da.dll file and dump it into your NFS: High Stakes folder and presto, enable fog in High Stakes and see the graphical facelift and improved frame rates.
http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/radeon.htm
Or if you have NFS: Porsche Unleashed just use its d3da.dll file and dump it into your NFS: High Stakes folder and presto, enable fog in High Stakes and see the graphical facelift and improved frame rates.
I was using a GF2MX before so I always had good fog support, but hey the Radeon was cheap so I said what the heck, turned out to be a good investment, the only 2 problems I have had were with NFS: High Stakes and no fog, but that is now fixed. The other was with Unreal 1, it wouldn't load with Direct3D so I downloaded a user made OpenGL patch, from www.oldunreal.com works good with GeForce series cards too and is faster than D3D.
