Dungeon Siege

[Marshmallowman]

I have the same board as you Rich, but I could never get it anywhere near reliable at 145fsb.

as to the highpoint, with a single disk its reliable at 140. with a RAID 0 setup(one drive per channel) I have to put the udma mode back one notch to stop corruption problems.

[The_King]

I was thinking of getting this game, but I wanted to play multi using my secondary comp and primary comp. Does it run OK with G400's? I have a friend who has it and it runs a bit jerky with settings turned off on his Gforce MX400 64MB. My second system is a PII 450 128MB G400 MAX. Thanks.

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by The_King
I was thinking of getting this game, but I wanted to play multi using my secondary comp and primary comp. Does it run OK with G400's? I have a friend who has it and it runs a bit jerky with settings turned off on his Gforce MX400 64MB. My second system is a PII 450 128MB G400 MAX. Thanks.

It runs perfectly on my system, highest res:

G400/Win2k/512mb DDR/1.5GHz Athlon XP

amish

[The_King]

Why on earth? I know that gforceMX's are crap but not so bad as to be beaten by a MAX. Of course it could be due to his 600 Celeron....

[Joel]

BTW: Dungeon Siege looks and plays great on the Parhelia.

Joel

[Kruzin]

Yes, it does.
That's one that I've ben playing for the last few days, and it's been great on Parhelia.

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by Joel
BTW: Dungeon Siege looks and plays great on the Parhelia.

Joel

Did you have shadows off in that shot??

[Joel]

Hey Buddman,

No I did not have shadows turned off. I know they work because I have seen them. But since you are so obsessed with this one aspect of parhelia I will try to get you a screenshot tonight showing them. Also give me a list of some more software that uses this form of creating shadows and I will see if I can look into them too.

Joel

[TdB]

could you try this:

http://www.pvrdev.com/extra/h/FableMark.htm

it is a benchmark program by powervr, that has some VERY advanced stencilbuffering shadows(technically like doom3´s shadows, I think).

you don´t have to post the score or anything, just tell me if it works with 16xfaa.

also, could you test glQuake, im interrested in that game because it has always been the weak spot on the old gxxx opengl icd(and yes, I play that game from time to time ).

[BuddMan]

Ok, Quake 3, Morrowind, Jedi Knights 2, and I guess Dungeon Siege. Just curious as to all the speculation that FAA will cause problems with stencil shadows. If you can, have 16x FAA and Anistropic filtering enabled. Thanks.

[Kruzin]

Here is a pic of Dungeon Siege, with all complex shadows, 16xFAA, and Anisotrpic all turned on.

[BuddMan]

That's odd....jaggies in the trees on the background and the shadows have big jaggies. Can you provide that same shot without FAA turned on?

[GNEP]

The trees are made up of textures by the look of things - which won't get FAA-ed

[Kruzin]

The shadows are also done with texture and lighting tricks.
Only actual polygon edges get FAA treatment.

[BuddMan]

Yeah, but are they not stencil shadows? I mean it actually makes them look worse. I happen to have Dungeon Siege and installed it on my roommate's computer. Shadows without FAA look way better. Perhaps this was what the speculation was all about?

(P.S. I don't want a flame to happen, and I'm not trying to bash the Parhelia. I'll most likely be buying the card myself ).

EDIT: Maybe you have the shadows turned to low detail??