Albert on 4/7/2009 at 18:16

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Now, I don't know if this will work, but being the sort of idiot I am, I decided to search up this Table Fog which I've deduced may be what is keeping me from attaining 100% thief perfection. going to msdn, I searched and found nothing.Then, out of curiosity, I tried pixel fog, and found (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb147268%28VS.85%29.aspx) something... But as far as I'm concerned, this could very well be written in chinese, as I don't understand a lick of what it's instructing me to do.

Though this may very well be a red herring in finding a solution to the fog less calamity that is... Vista! :eek:



:erm: Well, at least I'd hope something like this'd work. It's hardly understandable why more widely supported platforms like nvidia and ati are getting all the boohoos and "oh you poor thing, I'll get you to play thief 2 NO MATTER WHAT... nvm this intel chipset thingy, eww..."

baeuchlein on 12/7/2009 at 19:10

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I'm afraid there will be no solution for your problem.

The Microsoft article you found describes how an application (a game, for example) could talk to DirectX drivers in order to use a certain kind of fog with the graphics card (or on-board graphics chip) present in the computer. However, the graphics card must be able to do that (display "table fog" or "pixel fog", for example) if this is going to work. Microsoft basically tells the programmer of a game how to enable this kind of fog if the graphics card can do it.

Unfortunately, there are graphics cards which can't display "table fog" (or rather, display fog with the algorithm described by "table fog" or "pixel fog"), and that problem cannot be circumvented by anything you find in the article.

There are some graphics cards which do not select the "correct" way of displaying fog with Thief 2 (and other games). Sometimes, one can change this behaviour by editing the registry; my Radeon 9550, for example, won't display fog in Thief 2 unless I change three registry values. But these will almost certainly not work with an Intel graphics chipset because these things are ATI-specific. It is a way to tell the ATI Radeon driver what to do in case of fog, but the Intel driver will most likely not react to these changes in the registry.

Unless some page on the internet tells you of a fog solution meant for Intel chipsets, there will be no solution for Intel graphics. Sorry.