Q3 artifacts with latest G400 drivers.

[Galvin]

Win2k, 384megs ram, CUSL2, G400 32mb

Well the light in q3tourney1 is easy to reproduce, course 32/32 takes way too much of a performance hit so I use 16/32 at best.

The other is Q3DM5
on this map go to the part where you see the ceiling fans, now make sure the long wall is on your right, move around and you see some artifacts on the wall it looks like blackness or something, hard to describe, but I can reproduce it everytime no problem.

Q3 settings:
Everything is set to max with
bilinear
16 bit color depth
32 bit textures

The artifacts are minor but still a reminder that the ICD is still not as good as the compititions

[DuRaNgO]

thank you and good night

[Gurm]

Err... so you LIKE making your frame rates drop? That's the only reason I can think of to turn on 32-bit textures on a 16-bit display.

- Gurm

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[CollegeManMan]

Can you post a screenshot?

[Galvin]

I don't have a web site to link a picture to this forum to show a screen shot.

You should be able to reproduce it very easy.

[Galvin]

I made screenshots for some reason they come out darker than they appear in the game so I had to change the gamma on them.

I'll be happy to send them to whoever can post them on here.

Thanks.

[spazm_1999]

Send them to me, I'll post them.

my email is spazm@gmx.net

Spazm

[spazm_1999]

I don't remember seeing those things in my Quake 3, but I didn't pay that much attention to it.

Do you have the same bug if you set the color depth to 32 bits and the textures to 16bits.... that's my setting.... but i'm in 1024*768....







Spazm

[Galvin]

Thanks, Spazm

[antdude]

I noticed those weirdness in Alice demo (Q3A engine), but I don't have those problems in regular Q3A and Team Arena demo.

Galvin: Did you try Team Arena demo to see if you get those?

[Galvin]

I don't know what Alice demo is never heard of it, this is Q3a patch 1.17, it happens in multiplayer as well. The one in q3dm5 I noticed when the wall flickered as I past it so I checked it out.

The thing with the lights doesn't happen every time but it happens sometimes for the whole game, sometimes when I start the game again I may not get the light artifacts, but q3dm5 I always get that.

[antdude]

Galvin, http://meccaworld.com/templates/games.asp?title=Alice if you want to try Alice demo.

[spazm_1999]

If you ever have other pics to post like this Galvin send them to me with the URL of the thread. I'll check if I have those artifacts on my PC in a couple of mins. I'll try differents setting so maybe I'll find what make's this.

Spazm

[spazm_1999]

Well, I've done many test, but they all do these artifacts so I tried to see why. The reason is that you see between the polygons... maybe because their engine doesn't support round corners to well because it only happend when there's a round corner. There's nothing we can do about it.

For the flickering wall.... I had tried this map about 30mins. and I didn't saw any wall flickering, maybe it has been corrected in the version 1.25y....

I suggest you that you change the color depth to 32 and the textures to 16.... I had a better image quality with these settings and check for the wall maybe this will correct your problem.

If this doesn't work.... upgrade your Quake 3 to 1.25y it has a lot of bugs corrected and it is visually a little better.

Spazm

[Galvin]

I sent in more snapshots, the errors in the floor look very much like what I used to see in quake2.

When I used the radeon last week I didn't notice any such artifacts. Maybe the next OGL driver release will fix these.