WhiteFantom on 8/7/2009 at 06:29

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I feel like an idiot having to ask this because I feel like the answer must be staring me in the face and I'm just missing it somehow.

I'm playing the FM "Swamped," which states very emphatically that the entire mission is supposed to be shrouded in fog; only, when I started playing, there wasn't a drop of fog anywhere. I know about the issue with newer video cards and needing to enable fog-table emulation, and I thought I already had mine set that way. But I went looking anyway, just in case, and in my NVIDIA Control Panel, there is no such thing as "enable fog-table emulation" or anything similar. It's just not there.

Some background: I'm running Vista Home Premium 32 bit and an MSI-branded NVIDIA 9800 GTX+ with DirectX 10. I upgraded to this card about six or eight months ago, but I could swear I've played missions with fog since then with no problems. I also upgraded my video drivers within the past week to the latest ones, but I can't see why fog-table emulation would have been completely removed from the most recent drivers.

Here's what I do to get to the video settings: Right-click on the desktop, click "NVIDIA Control Panel" in the context menu (alternately, I could go to "Personalize," and then to "Display Settings" and click the "Monitor" tab and choose "Advanced Settings," but the other way is shorter and leads to the same thing). In the NVIDIA Control Panel, Under "3D Settings" in the left pane, I click "Manage 3D Settings." I can change global settings or program-specific settings, but the settings I can change are the same either way:

Ambient Occlusion
Anisotropic Filtering
Anti-aliasing - Gamma Correction
Anti-aliasing Mode
Anti-aliasing Setting
Anti-aliasing Transparency
Conformant Texture Clamp
Extension Limit
Force Mipmaps
Maximum Pre-rendered Frames
Multi-display/Mixed GPU Acceleration
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias
Texture Filtering - Quality
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization
Triple Buffering
Vertical Sync

If I remember correctly, the fog-table emulation option used to be listed with these, but there's nothing at all there about it now. Is this something that's been discontinued? Is there a tweak or hack that can re-introduce this option? Or am I just looking in the wrong place?

--Jennifer

WhiteFantom on 8/7/2009 at 08:25

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That may be true, but I've been running Vista for two years, and I *know* during that time I've played missions with fog that worked correctly. Maybe I'm just hallucinating that, I don't know, but I really can't believe I've gone two years with no fog and haven't even noticed it until just now.

--Jennifer