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f1c video mode

Jordan Sack

f1c video mode

by Jordan Sack » Mon, 06 Sep 2004 05:01:43

I added some memory to my PC to play DOOM 3. When I went into F1C again the
3d config program started up. Since I stopped using 2 FSAA on my video card
it seemed like a good idea to change the config.ini in F1C to use FSAA=2.
After that F1C looked somehow different. Then I went into the display
settings in the game and when it came out of it the display settings went
from custom to medium. Well, I looked at the config.ini and the only
difference besides FSAA=2 now is the Video Mode changed to 32 from 8.
Does anyone know what that does?

Thank  you:

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Dave Henri

f1c video mode

by Dave Henri » Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:23:23



  That sounds more like you changed from 16 bit color--the 8 -- to 32 bit
color.  And you may have changed screen resolutions too.  Look at the list
of available screen choices in 3dconfig...start at the lowest 16 bit and
give it a number 1 then the next gets number 2 etc.  So 8 is the 8th
available choice of your paticular screen resolutions.  Obviously the 32
bit colors are higher than the 16 bit and work the same..starting with some
number above your last available 16 bit color and up.  
  The FSAA should be listed below the bulk of the config.ini text almost at
the bottom.

dh

Jordan Sack

f1c video mode

by Jordan Sack » Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:39:18

Thank you Dave. Ran 3dconfig.exe again and saw the available resolutions and
#bit colors. Manually changed config.ini back to 8 and the color looked
horrible. So I changed it back to 32 and the display is looking much better.
The thing is I can't remember the screen ever looking as bad as did when the
video mode = 8. It's so weird. But for now the video mode = 32 looks fine.
Now FSAA=2. I used to set it on my card but since getting DOOM 3 I let the
application set the FSAA. That seems to work okay.
Thanks again for the help.

Jordan



> > I added some memory to my PC to play DOOM 3. When I went into F1C
> > again the 3d config program started up. Since I stopped using 2 FSAA
> > on my video card it seemed like a good idea to change the config.ini
> > in F1C to use FSAA=2. After that F1C looked somehow different. Then I
> > went into the display settings in the game and when it came out of it
> > the display settings went from custom to medium. Well, I looked at the
> > config.ini and the only difference besides FSAA=2 now is the Video
> > Mode changed to 32 from 8. Does anyone know what that does?

> > Thank  you:

>   That sounds more like you changed from 16 bit color--the 8 -- to 32 bit
> color.  And you may have changed screen resolutions too.  Look at the list
> of available screen choices in 3dconfig...start at the lowest 16 bit and
> give it a number 1 then the next gets number 2 etc.  So 8 is the 8th
> available choice of your paticular screen resolutions.  Obviously the 32
> bit colors are higher than the 16 bit and work the same..starting with
some
> number above your last available 16 bit color and up.
>   The FSAA should be listed below the bulk of the config.ini text almost
at
> the bottom.

> dh


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