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  • #16
    Hi greinedo,

    first of all: Thank you!!!

    Sorry if you downloaded the 500 mb only for me , but again: Thank you very much of course (I just mentioned it because I thought some other P750 users on murc perhaps already have it... there was a thread about it also on murc) .


    The bug you describe appears with all Parhelia based cards in the demo (but Matrox is in contact with crytek), but there is a possibility to fix it.

    First, start the game and make your controls and graphic settings (for P750 I would suggest the lowest).

    Then you have to add these lines to the 'systemcfg.lua' :


    e_fog="0"
    d3d9_VBPools = "0"


    Then you have to enable the 'writing protection' for this file because Farcry will overwrite it at startup (don't forget to make the game settings before enabling writing protection!).


    If you start the demo with enabled FAA, you will see the antialised polygon edges of the ground as lines through the transparent water because of the interpolation, if it is not fixed.
    If FAA-16x is really fixed in Parhelia LX cards (like some guys said on murc a long time ago), everything will look okay, and in this case, we can hope Matrox will implement this working awesome FAA in their future products !


    Of course you don't have to do this whole operation if you don't want to, but it would be really interesting.



    Thank you anyway
    Last edited by Che Guevara; 31 January 2004, 12:14.
    P IV 3,06 Ghz, GA-8ihxp i850e, 512 MB PC-1066 RDRam, Parhelia 128 mb 8x, 40 + 60 gb IBM 7200 upm/2048 kb HD, Samtron 96 P 19", black icemat, Razer Boomslang 2100 krz-2 + mousebungee, Videologic sonic fury, Creative Soundworks

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    • #17
      Hi !

      I fixed the bug and here is what I see with the Matrox P750 FAA-16X forced in the driver and low settings in the FarCry game. Hope this give you and answer.

      regards
      Attached Files
      A64 3500+ NewCastle @2550 (FSB 255, 10X)
      Abit AV8 v1.1 bios 1.7
      2X256 MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000 (1T Cas 2.0, 2-2-6) @DDR333/FSB255=212MHZ
      LC Power 550 W
      Geforce 6800 GT (Asus V9999GT-TD /128) @428/900 + nvSilencer 5 rev.2
      Thermalright XP-90 + Enermax 92mm fan
      NEC 3520A DVD-RW Firmware 3.04
      SB Audigy 2
      BELINEA 10-17-30
      XP Home SP2 - Via Hyperion Pro 5.00A
      Via IDE accelerator Driver 1.21 Beta
      Via RAID 4.30C driver Via velocity V23 Network driver
      ------------------------------------------
      3DMark05=5024 3DMark03=12508 3DMark01=24352 AquaMark03=70712

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      • #18
        Great, thank you !


        The bug I see with my Parhelia isn't visible on your screenshot, and if you didn't noticed any other problems (you didn't, right ? Of course on a compressed screeshot I would not see everything...), we can say FAA-16x works perfect now!!!!!!
        Yehaaaaw!!!!


        Let's hope the Matrox guys implement FAA-16x in their next card .


        Just imagine what a Parhelia sucessor probably will do: FAA-16x combined with 16x trilinear-anisotrophic filtering...



        Best Regards
        Che
        Last edited by Che Guevara; 1 February 2004, 08:12.
        P IV 3,06 Ghz, GA-8ihxp i850e, 512 MB PC-1066 RDRam, Parhelia 128 mb 8x, 40 + 60 gb IBM 7200 upm/2048 kb HD, Samtron 96 P 19", black icemat, Razer Boomslang 2100 krz-2 + mousebungee, Videologic sonic fury, Creative Soundworks

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        • #19
          Hi !

          There is definitively no problem so far

          Here's another picture with higher resolution and low jpg compression.

          Hope Matrox will soon lauch a card with that quality but very very faster

          Regards
          Attached Files
          A64 3500+ NewCastle @2550 (FSB 255, 10X)
          Abit AV8 v1.1 bios 1.7
          2X256 MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000 (1T Cas 2.0, 2-2-6) @DDR333/FSB255=212MHZ
          LC Power 550 W
          Geforce 6800 GT (Asus V9999GT-TD /128) @428/900 + nvSilencer 5 rev.2
          Thermalright XP-90 + Enermax 92mm fan
          NEC 3520A DVD-RW Firmware 3.04
          SB Audigy 2
          BELINEA 10-17-30
          XP Home SP2 - Via Hyperion Pro 5.00A
          Via IDE accelerator Driver 1.21 Beta
          Via RAID 4.30C driver Via velocity V23 Network driver
          ------------------------------------------
          3DMark05=5024 3DMark03=12508 3DMark01=24352 AquaMark03=70712

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          • #20
            You're right, you're damned right .

            Thanx

            Greetz
            Che
            P IV 3,06 Ghz, GA-8ihxp i850e, 512 MB PC-1066 RDRam, Parhelia 128 mb 8x, 40 + 60 gb IBM 7200 upm/2048 kb HD, Samtron 96 P 19", black icemat, Razer Boomslang 2100 krz-2 + mousebungee, Videologic sonic fury, Creative Soundworks

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