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No Windlight? Options all greyed out? Have an ATI Mobility 9600/9700/9800? How to fix
Abyssin Otoro
Registered User
Join date: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 48
11-17-2007 08:35
The ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, 9700 & 9800 have their shaders disabled in Windlight, and *many* other cards have their "class" lowered (and a few other things have been changed). :eek:

Basically this means that at least to me, without tweaking the files to allow me to use my card's shaders, Windlight looks *worse* than the normal viewer.
To see examples you can go to the Jira entry:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3272
to see the difference (and vote ;) ).
Also attached in the Jira is a tweaked featuretable.txt that will allow you to turn things on, rather than it all just being disabled.


Also while looking into this I found that the following cards have had their settings lowered (anyone know what lowering a cards "class" actually does?), compared to the current RC release, so if you have one of these cards, and Windlight looks worse in certain ways (compared to the RC), this may be why.

Video cards effected by the "class" lowering (there may be others, I only had a quick look at this part).

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9100
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon Xpress
ATI Radeon X1300
ATI Radeon X1400
ATI Radeon X300
ATI Radeon X400
ATI Radeon X500
ATI Radeon X600
ATI Radeon X700
NVIDIA GeForce 6100
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
NVIDIA GeForce 6500
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
NVIDIA GeForce 7300
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6500
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6700
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6
Yrrek Gran
Crackpot Inventor
Join date: 20 Oct 2006
Posts: 209
11-17-2007 08:45
Oh great!

Abyssin, I have a Radeon 9250, will the patch allow that card to work? It is not listed in the file. Can I add it?
Abyssin Otoro
Registered User
Join date: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 48
11-17-2007 09:12
From: Yrrek Gran
I have a Radeon 9250, will the patch allow that card to work? It is not listed in the file. Can I add it?

That is one of the cards that they have changed the settings for, but other than that, I don't know (hopefully someone who knows the source will comment, they *might* have an idea).

The file I attached to the Jira entry only changes the settings for 9600/9700/9800, to give you the choice of shaders or not (default is still off). The file with the changed "class" settings is gpu_table.txt

Good luck.
Abyssin Otoro.
Heidi Stiglitz
Registered User
Join date: 2 May 2006
Posts: 20
11-17-2007 17:31
I have a GeForce 6600 and everything works fine for me.