Recent content by Andy N

On Saturday, 21st April I got 11 e-mails from Steam support that looked like this: Everything seems legit, links point to Steam web pages and headers suggest the e-mails were delivered directly from Valve. I tried logging in to Steam and everything seems to be OK and I didn't need to enter any...

I recently joined the MS beta program and installed Windows Vista build 5270 (32-bit version) and the latest beta Catalysts with CCC. I have a P4 2.4 GHz with 1 GB RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro (I know the PC isn't top-notch, but it is supported and should work fine). The problem is that there are...

I know this isn't probably the right forum but there have been a few threads here about DV recently. I never had any nVidia card and never experimented with Digital Vibrance. I'm just interested whether someone could explain what EXACTLY it does. I have written a small program for setting...

I'm just curious, because from time to time I see some suggestions to make sure that people have the power cable connected to their Radeon 9700. Recently I had some problems with a BIOS flash so I took all cards out of my system. Then I found out I have left the CMOS reset jumper closed - silly...

I tried to post this in R300 technology forum but got no useful replies, maybe here someone will notice it. I have written a DX7 application (I don't know whether it is different in DX8 or DX9). It originally created a Z-Buffer surface by requesting given bit-depth (16, 24 or 32) with according...

I have noticed some nasty visual artifacts in some games when anisotropic filtering is enabled (both performance and quality). First it was in Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed (still the best NFS game). The coronas (glow around lights) become totally corrupted when they get small (viewed from...

It seems that there are only two Z-Buffer formats supported on my Radeon 9700 Pro (at least in D3D), that being 16 bit plain and 24 bit with 8 bit stencil. There is no 24 bit without stencil neither 32 bit format. There is also no W-buffer support. Is it possible to turn on different formats via...

I just don't get it. I don't know what he means by "AA blur" but nobody said anything about that so perhaps he is right. Can someone explain this to me? The_KELRaTH says that with higher AA setting he gets AA blur and needs to use higher AF setting. As I see it, the multi-sampling AA...

Maybe this is already known but I haven't found it anywhere. I guess all (at least many) Radeon users have graphic corruption when they try to use the inset window in HLTV. I have found that it can be fixed by typing "gl_ztrick 0" in the console. Hope this helps...

I wonder if anybody has working W-fog on an original Radeon or 7500. I have my Radeon for a long time and with the first drivers the W-fog WORKED (big difference from Rage 128). However, that was a long time ago. With 7xxx drivers the W-fog stopped working. When I enabled it in the registry...

I have a Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO (OEM) 166/166 MHz, Duron 750 on Gigabyte GA 7ZX-1 MoBo. I use Windows 98 (not SE), currently with 7199 drivers. I have tried 9008, 9012 and 9016 drivers but all have the same problem (even after clean Windows install): The overlay has totally messed up color (I...

When I install clean Windows (98 first edition), DirectX 8.1 and Video Driver (tried several versions including the latest, now using 7199) the Vertex shader test reports around 15 fps. After some time the speed drops to around 5 fps, also having big impact on Dragothic score and Hi Detail Car...

Well, I got a new ATI driver from a "special" source and it states ver. 7185, while the generally available are 7184. The dtiver I have came with a Radeon 8500 which a company got from ATI. I don't know the differences, but it seems to be very slow in Vertex shader test in 3D Mark 2001...

I don't have a DVD ROM drive, but I have brought a .vob file ripped from a DVD from my friend. When I install the ATI MMC, it registers the .vob extension for use with ATI File player, but when I try to open it, the player just says it can't be done. When I install Power DVD, I can play the file...

I have seen people on this forum talking about Half-life running in 32 bit. However, there is no option in the game and my attempts at changing registry settings for the game yielded no results... Still, I would really like to run it in 32 bit color because the 16 bit quality really sucks on all...