Think You Have A Hot Graphix Card

Error404 · December 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Post Your NS Screenshots and Prove it!</div> In another thread we got onto the subject of graphics cards. It would be interesting to see what NS renders look like on the latest graphics cards.

If you feel like getting some sympathy then maybe post some really bad renders on a really crap graphics card to make everyone feel better.

Post your screenies!

Nubi · December 2002

ok, uhh I don't have any?

But it was weird, when I was playing Tribes 2 and got a new graphics card, the little tunnel thing sthat u fly up to get to the other levels fo the base, they were shiny then, so it was odd

So I wanna see if there's something I'm missing as well

Error404 · December 2002

I'd like to see screenies from someone who has bump-mapping on their card.

uranium_235 · December 2002

GF4 TI 4600... Doesn't look like much... this IS the hL engine. You want bump mapping? erm, what is BM?

SemperFi · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (uranium - 235 @ Dec 25 2002, 12:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>You want bump mapping? erm, what is BM?</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Bump mapping is the latest buzz word in the arsenal of people who dont know **obscenity** about **obscenity** (including me).

Its a way of mapping objects so that they appear to have grooves and bumps instead of just teaxtures. Its looks mighty fine, but noone has seemed to be able to perfect it yet.

QuantumSlip · December 2002

GF4 Ti4200, 1024x768, Quincunx Antialiasing, 4x Antistropic Filtering
<img src='http://home.earthlink.net/~quantumslip/forumimage/ns_eclipse_01.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
<img src='http://home.earthlink.net/~quantumslip/forumimage/ns_eclipse_02.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

sorry for the quantity or quality, i couldnt get any good scences to take pics of.

Fantasmo · December 2002

The engine has to support environmental bump mapping in order for the video card to display it, that goes for many of the latest GFX Card features.

Brad_R · December 2002

if your gonna post a SS, make sure you got netgraph running so we can see the FPS.

getting a nice looking render with 2 fps doesnt really mean much

Aaron · December 2002

Note, that once you compress the image through a lossy compression algorithm (JPEG) you will probably lose some of the subtleties of the image... (e.g., you might miss the distinction between anti-aliasing, etc.)

Also, seems like NS looks considerably better in 32 bit. I usually play 16bit, but I got the latest nVidia driver and decided to try 32bit, and everything is just as fast, but seems richer.

QuantumSlip · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (mcclane @ Dec 24 2002, 07:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>if your gonna post a SS, make sure you got netgraph running so we can see the FPS.

getting a nice looking render with 2 fps doesnt really mean much</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yes, your Majesty <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'>

<a href='http://home.earthlink.net/~quantumslip/forumimage/ns_hera_01.jpg' target='_blank'>SS 1</a>
<a href='http://home.earthlink.net/~quantumslip/forumimage/ns_hera_01.jpg' target='_blank'>SS 2</a>

SemperFi · December 2002

Dude what resolution are you running in?

ctx · December 2002

Anti-Aliasing
FPS
Lighting

Those are the only things that I have found that higher quality video cards can enhance.

coldfuse · December 2002

ss's come out sooo dark

Surge · December 2002

Ah, check this out. Awesome here.

<b>Note: Some of the color was changed during conversion to .jpg, so bear with it.</b>

<img src='http://home.insightbb.com/~bghsurge/images/nsscreenshot.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

AcKz · December 2002

hahahha

uranium_235 · December 2002

<i>"Particle Cannons, fire at will! Let's give them some bump mapping to worry about!"
- Max Payne development team</i>

This isn't Half-Life (Duh), but UT2K3 on a GeForce 4 TI 4600. With sexy liquid lighting. Half-Life only gets so good, and all those other screens look just like what mine looks like. But here's your bump mapping!

uranium_235 · December 2002

And my "God I wish this was NS shot." (The level's a wee bit too bright, but... it's orgasmic.)

folk · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (tojo13 @ Dec 24 2002, 09:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>only 800 x 600 but i can get my fps up to 500+</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
you suck at lying.

Surge · December 2002

Nah. I could get graphics as good as/better than that with ATI Radeon 8500LE. UT2k3 has a great engine.

And by the way, UT2k3 doesn't have bump mapping.

Surge · December 2002

Hell yeah. I don't get that 400x300 max color graphics with a BANSHEE. Pfsh!

And like I said, UT2k3 doesn't have bump mapping, if you didn't notice my edit.

uranium_235 · December 2002

Benchmarking in UT2K3:

Flyby: 97.482019
Botmatch: 61.002918

At 1024x768

uranium_235 · December 2002

Like hell it doesn't support bump mapping <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'> Where's it say that?

Oh and Surge, what is that level? Ns_CoffeeHouse? Looks like a coffee mug on a table and a door with a doorknob in the background <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

uranium_235 · December 2002

Can someone get me a screenshot of NS in software rendering, 640x480 with all options turned way the hell down?

SemperFi · December 2002

Sorry that NS auto gamma made it dark and i dont feel like opening PS.

SemperFi · December 2002

By the way both of these are running with no video card <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Aden · December 2002

uranium_235 · December 2002

Heh to Semper

SemperFi · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fopher @ Dec 25 2002, 03:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>What's the best card for it's price out lately? Something along the lines of runnin flawlessly smooth on UT2K3.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
That would probably be the geforce2.

What are your system specs? Maybe other things are slowing your card down. Not to mention its the mx series, i think the best one is the TI series. Not 100 percent sure though.

uranium_235 · December 2002

The reason your 2 looks like our 4 is... well it's like pong... it can only get so good... and half life is OLD.

Nubi · December 2002

I gots a GeForce 4 MX 440

<img src='http://www.boomspeed.com/nubi/Convert.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Kinda Dark, but that's the ready room of some map (Still can't match name with map yet)

<img src='http://www.boomspeed.com/nubi/Convert2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Spores going off in the background, this is the lowest FPS I've ever had

<img src='http://www.boomspeed.com/nubi/Convert3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

extremely dark, but it's just fine in game

Fantasmo · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ctx @ Dec 24 2002, 09:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Anti-Aliasing
FPS
Lighting

Those are the only things that I have found that higher quality video cards can enhance.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
For the HL engine, that is all!

UT2003 can do environmental bump-mapping.

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