Ultima IX 32 bit color??
Dan Wilson
now I have an Xbox....!!..anyways I also had a Voodoo 3 but I made sure that
there were no files left over from my old Voodoo 3. Ive re-installed Ultima
9 and still it never gives me an option for 32 bit color. I know Voodoo 5
can run Ultima 9 in 32 bit....or can it??
Wtcher Dragon
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I don't believe so... the game comes with readme files, perhaps in one
of them you can find out.
Morgan Sales
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I'm sure it could. Dan, your are running it in Glide and not D3D aren't
you? That's the only setting that I can think might affect it.
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Monkey Ghoti
I know up to the Voodoo 3 there they couldn't do 32 bit (I used to have
one) But with Voodoo 4 and 5 they could (extra memory I guess).
Unfortunatly on the Ultima iX page they do state they only tested the
cards to the Voodoo3. I think your out of luck for this particular game.
I couldn't find any mention if there is 32 bit for any of the other
cards. And I don't feel like Installing the game and checking it with my
GeForce2.
M.
James Adams
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>>> Ive tried it all. Installed new drivers, etc. I used to have a
>>> Geforce but now I have an Xbox....!!..anyways I also had a Voodoo 3
>>> but I made sure that there were no files left over from my old
>>> Voodoo 3. Ive re-installed Ultima 9 and still it never gives me an
>>> option for 32 bit color. I know Voodoo 5 can run Ultima 9 in 32
>>> bit....or can it??
>>
>> I don't believe so... the game comes with readme files, perhaps in
>> one of them you can find out.
>
> I'm sure it could. Dan, your are running it in Glide and not D3D
> aren't you? That's the only setting that I can think might affect it.
The V5 will refuse to run 32-bit colour Glide with 4xFSAA at 1024x768 or
above - switch resolution, change FSAA to 2x or run D3D. D3D with
compressed textures is bettter anyway, IMHO, as more memory is free for
rendering that way.
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James Adams
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>> "Wtcher Dragon" <bou...@ultima-dragons.org> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.17a57e12b...@news.sprint.ca...
>>> In article <I8K_8.21842$4T2.5...@twister.socal.rr.com>,
>>> d...@nospam.com bounced in...
>>>> Ive tried it all. Installed new drivers, etc. I used to have a
>>>> Geforce but now I have an Xbox....!!..anyways I also had a Voodoo 3
>>>> but I made sure that there were no files left over from my old
>>>> Voodoo 3. Ive re-installed Ultima 9 and still it never gives me an
>>>> option for 32 bit color. I know Voodoo 5 can run Ultima 9 in 32
>>>> bit....or can it??
>>>
>>> I don't believe so... the game comes with readme files, perhaps in
>>> one of them you can find out.
>>
>> I'm sure it could. Dan, your are running it in Glide and not D3D
>> aren't you? That's the only setting that I can think might affect
>> it.
>
> The V5 will refuse to run 32-bit colour Glide with 4xFSAA at 1024x768
> or above - switch resolution, change FSAA to 2x or run D3D. D3D with
> compressed textures is bettter anyway, IMHO, as more memory is free
> for rendering that way.
Or change to 16-bit, of course:P
Revliskci
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Voodoo 3 could only do 16-bit. That's why people started moving to GeForce.
Samurai
Quoth "James Adams" <james...@stcatz.ox.ac.uk>:
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>The V5 will refuse to run 32-bit colour Glide
*blink* I was always under the impression that the Glide API handled a
maximum colour depth of 16-bit. Can someone corroborate that?
>with 4xFSAA at 1024x768 or above - switch resolution, change FSAA to 2x
>or run D3D. D3D with compressed textures is bettter anyway, IMHO, as
>more memory is free for rendering that way.
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Wtcher Dragon
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> > The V5 will refuse to run 32-bit colour Glide with 4xFSAA at 1024x768
> > or above - switch resolution, change FSAA to 2x or run D3D. D3D with
> > compressed textures is bettter anyway, IMHO, as more memory is free
> > for rendering that way.
>
> Or change to 16-bit, of course:P
Of course, D3D is grossly inefficient in comparison to GLIDE in UIX...
Axel
there is an option to force all Glide and OpenGL apps to run in 32-bit
color regardless of what the display options for the game show.
It makes a definite difference in some games. For example, when I run
Unreal Tournament in Glide mode, some of the foggy areas look
noticeably better when 32-bit color is forced. This option is also a
great way to get 32-bit rendering in older Glide or OpenGL games like
Interstate 76, Quake 1 and 2, etc.
Ritesh
James Adams
livened up by posting:
> In article <ahhhki$urk$1...@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Not using compressed textures on a Voodoo 5 - Glide doesn't support them
due to licensing issues, but the new drivers may fix that
Dominus Dragon
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> This option is also a
> great way to get 32-bit rendering in older Glide or OpenGL games like
> Interstate 76, Quake 1 and 2, etc.
this option is also great to crash some old games :-)
But you are right!
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Moscow Dragon
Even on PIII-800, 256 RAM and GeForce 2MX - U9 runs fine.
On better machines, it will be even finer. So, I do not think there are
reasons to have Voodoo for U9.
Max
Wtcher Dragon
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I've heard from people who've had (from memory) better machines than
that. It all depends from platform to platform, I suppose... and
probably a goodly, subjective serving of playability and tastes.
Moscow Dragon
> > On better machines, it will be even finer. So, I do not think there are
> > reasons to have Voodoo for U9.
>
> I've heard from people who've had (from memory) better machines than
> that. It all depends from platform to platform, I suppose... and
> probably a goodly, subjective serving of playability and tastes.
...and don't forget to disable anti-aliasing. Very minor, hardly noticeable
degrade in visual quality, and tremendous performance increase.
Max