I recently built a new system with an Nidia 6800GT 128MB video, and a gigibyte of Corsairs best ram. Excitedly cranking up the features one at a time to see how things looked, I noticed an oddity immediately.
When I turned on rippled water, all water disappeared. nothing but ditches surrounding my island home. I called for live help, describing what I saw, and someone there happened to have my same card. She experienced the same phenomenon....when turning on rippled water, all water instead disappears.
So, I guess, beware this card. I find a fix for this unlikely.
BTW, I did double check with the last few drivers, including most recent, BIOS updates, etc, and DirectX 9.0c.
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Erikk Steele
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03-31-2005 09:06
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Edav Roark
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03-31-2005 09:08
I recently built a new system with an Nidia 6800GT 128MB video, and a gigibyte of Corsairs best ram. Excitedly cranking up the features one at a time to see how things looked, I noticed an oddity immediately. When I turned on rippled water, all water disappeared. nothing but ditches surrounding my island home. I called for live help, describing what I saw, and someone there happened to have my same card. She experienced the same phenomenon....when turning on rippled water, all water instead disappears. So, I guess, beware this card. I find a fix for this unlikely. BTW, I did double check with the last few drivers, including most recent, BIOS updates, etc, and DirectX 9.0c. I believe the ripple water toggle button is not on the ver. 1.6 Preferences or at least it wasn't in the preview. _____________________
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Lee Linden
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03-31-2005 09:40
Ripple Water is currently an ATI-only feature. What it does is make the water undulate up and down, so in my own opinion, you're not missing much. ;^)
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Sean Gorham
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03-31-2005 10:36
Ripple Water is currently an ATI-only feature.  _____________________
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Graham Mondrian
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03-31-2005 11:26
Try having a play with the anistropic filtering and Anti-aliasing settings in terms of disabling both of them. They might be interferring, for some reason - full screen anti aliasing makes my screen go black on NFSU2 and I have the an XT700 (ati)
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Rickard Roentgen
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03-31-2005 12:18
Ripple Water is currently an ATI-only feature. What it does is make the water undulate up and down, so in my own opinion, you're not missing much. ;^) uh, works with a GeForce 4 ti4800 _____________________
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Kathmandu Gilman
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03-31-2005 15:39
Ripple water option makes the water dissapear on my 6600gt. ATI only? It worked on my Ti 4200. Looked like crap though because it was large, undulating swells that would flood low lying land. I suppose if you could have changed the scale of the waves it might be useful but as it is, you aren't missing much.
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Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
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03-31-2005 15:52
Ripple water option makes the water dissapear on my 6600gt. ATI only? It worked on my Ti 4200. Looked like crap though because it was large, undulating swells that would flood low lying land. I suppose if you could have changed the scale of the waves it might be useful but as it is, you aren't missing much. Agree -- it sucked up huge chunks of the distance and really made it difficult for me to scan distant land masses. I didn't find it useful, and although aquatic motions are a beautiful thing to me, this was distracting and not to my personal preference. So, I turned it off.  I have seen rippled water look considerably prettier on some ATI-powered systems. _____________________
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