Author Topic: Ati X800 users (Read 1896 times)

Kev367th · « **Reply #15 on:** October 09, 2004, 11:08:41 PM »

No way of using mipmaps Skuzzy?

Mayhem · « **Reply #16 on:** October 10, 2004, 12:25:28 AM »

Iam running at 1600x1200x32 @100hz 4xFSAA 8xAF with Tempral AA on. Vsync On. I get a min of about 52-48 fps and I normally top out at 100fps (due to vsync and temporal AA)

I have a 2.8 ghz p4 ht @800 fsb with 1gb cas2 3200 ddr ram and a aiw 9800pro w 128mb (ddrII)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #17 on:** October 10, 2004, 07:30:02 AM »

Kev, we absolutely use mipmaps, but I am not sure what your inference is. Textures still must be scaled/filtered.

Elfie · « **Reply #18 on:** October 11, 2004, 02:29:26 PM »

I dropped my max texture size from 512 to 256. I get screen stutters sometimes now but the texture swapping prolem seems to be gone now. Also, the option to load textures to my vid card is greyed out. Is there anything I can do to be able to select that option?

I'm thinking if I can load textures to my vid card and system ram that might eliminate the texute swapping also. I have anitaliasing off and anisotropic filtering off also.

Win XP Pro
Athlon 2000+
512m ram
Audigy sound
FX5700 LE 128m vid

Pongo · « **Reply #19 on:** October 11, 2004, 03:08:12 PM »

Sticky your post Skuzzy. Its a good one.
Most of us dont have a clue what some of those settings are and what combos of them to use.

Kev367th · « **Reply #20 on:** October 11, 2004, 05:24:55 PM »

No inference Skuzzy, didn't realize you used mipmaps already.

oboe · « **Reply #21 on:** October 13, 2004, 06:46:29 AM »

I think I have absolutely fixed my screen freeze problem by checking "Disable other plane skins". But I'm not sure why this would do the trick - whether or not you have enabled other plane skins, there are STILL some skin textures to load and filter when other planes approach your airspace.

I may be wrong, but I suspect that now all other planes will appear using the game's default 256 skin for that a/c, while only my a/c uses the 1024 custom skin I selected. With 'other plane skins' enabled, the vid card has to load/filter 1024 skins for every plane you encounter, thus the screen freezes when in furballs.

I wonder if there would be a way to use 1024 skins for YOUR plane, but 256 skins for everyone elses? I care about detail on my plane (I want to see the rivet detail/weathering when I look out the canopy) but I also want to see the custom skins on other player's planes. I just don't need the 1024 detail for those planes.

Can anyone confirm my thinking? Apologies if this topic has been discussed before...