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Re: missing cordonits in TresED

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ye I have the same Problem missing cordonits with an ATI card.
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Hmmm... thinking a bit about it, I wonder... would antialiasing or anisotropic filtering or some other setting make the characters disappear against the white background since they were thin?
Otherwise, it's just the way Vista (and apparently Win7 too) treats OpenGL by basically using a wrapper to convert OpenGL calls to Direct3D calls - and some of them don't get processed properly.
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I will report that all's fine with Vista and an Nvidia/BFG Geforce 8800 GT OC, all I had to due was adjust OpenGL settings to eliminate the black lines (yes I finally did that)
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Unfortunately ATI drivers apparently won't allow you to do that... (I have that problem with XP and the ATi graphics chipset on this notebook)
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And I also have the no-text issue with TresEd display, and run an ATI card on Win XP. Seems that ATI is the culprit.. I'm survivin', though.
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I don't remember getting that issue back on Magnus 1 which had an ATI Radeon 9000 and XP. Must be a problem with the newer drivers.
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machf wrote:Hmmm... thinking a bit about it, I wonder... would antialiasing or anisotropic filtering or some other setting make the characters disappear against the white background since they were thin?
Otherwise, it's just the way Vista (and apparently Win7 too) treats OpenGL by basically using a wrapper to convert OpenGL calls to Direct3D calls - and some of them don't get processed properly.
Got to trying that, unfortunatley neither had effect. Tried numerous combinations such as compatbility and ATi settings. Looks like it will need to emulated in someway, or if there is opengl backward compatability driver/software.
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It's a bump, but might go unnoticed otherwise, its somewhat related though.

Just like to know what might causes the green 'haze' around the text in trespasser? It appears on any text not part of an image, so like the level load screen, menus, and in-game on the ctrl-F11 input.
I never had it with the nvidia geforce 7600, but got it with the Ati 5870. I think, not sure that I had it on a radeon 9200, possibly using omega drivers, just can't remember when I had it.
it definitely appears that its related to treseds missing text, only this time its got a green haze.

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I've had that on both my old NVidia and current ATI. It's actually a red offset shadow in the JPDS menu. TrikeUatra did something to change the color, I forget what. I believe what you're actually seeing is intentional text-shadow which is unintentionally offset by several pixels in some direction. Probably more discrepancies between the way such things were handled between now and ten years ago.
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Draconisaurus wrote:CHRONZERG! :| Welcome Back! For however long..

And I also have the no-text issue with TresEd display, and run an ATI card on Win XP. Seems that ATI is the culprit.. I'm survivin', though.
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Re: missing cordonits in TresED

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I see :yum: Dude, just so you know, The Lagoon is still basically my favorite level yet released. Eternal kudos on that one. To this day, I have not taken a good look at it in TresEd, to keep the mystery intact..
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