Help, my textures are looking weird...

ZIGS on 9/8/2007 at 19:02

Hi, I've started playing SS2 today (LONG OVERDUE lol) but I couldn't help noticing the textures look kinda weird. Can this be due to the game only supports 16bit resolution? Here's a screen I took:

(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1202/ss2es8.jpg)

Is there anyway to fix this? I opened cam.cfg and changed it to 32bit but didn't worked. Thanks in advance

Bjossi on 9/8/2007 at 19:14

The game doesn't support 32bit.
And telling us your system specs wouldn't hurt.

ZIGS on 9/8/2007 at 19:27

Ok, my specs are:

Pentium 4 @ 3600Ghz
8800GTX
2GB RAM
Windows XP professional SP2

Ok, so is there any way to fix it? I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to look like that :P

Thanks

ZylonBane on 9/8/2007 at 20:39

Quote Posted by ZIGS

8800GTX

Ding. That's your problem right there. NVidia cards haven't rendered Dark Engine games (SS2, Thief) correctly for years.

Kolya on 9/8/2007 at 20:40

While there can be some banding on color gradients in 16Bit, this looks ... weird. You should check your graphic card settings.

Nameless Voice on 9/8/2007 at 20:45

ZylonBane is quite right.
The latest generation of nVidia card (the 8xxx series) - and, unfortunately, the latest generation of ATI cards (the X2900 series) - cannot run Dark Engine games properly.

Read these threads for more information:

(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113501) nVidia 8800 series
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113958) ATI 2900 series

ZylonBane on 10/8/2007 at 01:51

New ATI cards have the problem too? Dammit.

There's got to be some smart guys out there working on a software Voodoo emulator. The need for one as more and more legacy 3D-accelerated games start to degrade or outright fail is getting ridiculous.