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Shiny Objects, Bump Mapping (& Cloth)?
Msakaji Yoshiro
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Join date: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 9
10-02-2005 09:09
What graphics cards are compatible with the Shiny Objects and Bump map options, and which aren't? Some users claim that their Geforce 2 shows shiny objects, while I, personally have a Geforce FX 5200, and the option is unavailable. My machine is a Pentium 4 3GHz, and the graphics card runs on an 8x AGP bus, all the graphics drivers are installed correctly, and BIOS options are set fine, too.
Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
10-02-2005 11:01
I think there is currently a bug with the GeForce FX 5xxx series cards not showing these options. You are also running on the newest versions of the Nvidia drivers, right? And if so, there may be a problem:

/111/ee/57857/1.html

Also check this thread for more ideas on what to do:

/111/37/35782/1.html

You should have shiny on a 5200, yo. :)
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Msakaji Yoshiro
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Join date: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 9
10-02-2005 11:49
Oh, hey Torley. I have your new Ginko ID either finished or in the works.

Ah, it appears that those features are disabled for people with 256MB RAM... but can be manually disabled by removing a line from the settings.ini.

Thanks for the links, great help.
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 5,634
10-02-2005 11:51
Its turned off for me because I only have 256mb of RAM.. But everyones got more RAM than me.. :(
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Msakaji Yoshiro
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Join date: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 9
10-02-2005 13:46
Zapoteth, you can still get it to work.

Read the links posted earlier.
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