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Good luck.

Robert

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Andre

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

Thanks for the confirmation, but what could it be? First of all I have
no problems in any other OpenGL games.
The 7.58 drivers were causing bad shadows in N2002, so I removed my
old drivers with Detonator Destroyer and did a clean install of the
12.90 drivers. Again, all other games work fine in OpenGL.
Vsync is set to allways off in OpenGL mode.

I'm happy with the fps I get in D3D mode, I just don't understand why
OpenGL runs so much worse on my system in N2002.
In N4 OpenGL IS faster on my system though.
Weird eh?

Andre

I'm almost ashamed to ask you that, but maybe the famous Vsync?

If that's not it, then maybe a high FSAA setting? Aniso = 8 ? Resolution and
colour depth too high for OGL (remember, OGL in N2002 doesn't use compressed
textures yet, i.e. if you have only a 32MB card, there'll probably be quite
a bit of AGP activity)? One of these perhaps?

You should also have a look at the settings in rend_ogl.ini, and maybe post
them here, to tell us what the game thinks it's running on/with.

Achim

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Hi :)

Nope, Vsync is set to 'allways off'..

I don't use FSAA. 4x4 costs me too much fps and my eyes aren't good
enough to see the difference between 2x2 fsaa and no fsaa, besides a
drop in fps. So it's no FSAA for me.
In run in 1024res, 16-bit color.
But I think it's because of this compression stuff in N2002 as you
mention. I have a GF2 GTS 32mb and with texturing set to -1 the
graphics looks -really- ***(but the fps is then the same as in d3d).

But when I set texturing to 100, while the gfx become much better, the
fps is around 4-5.

Right, I'll do that when I get home, I'm at work now.
Yup, been a busy day again ;)

Andre

Yes, texturing at 100.
I'll go for the latter situation, I think you're right.
As I said, I'm happy with my d3d fps, just wondering why opengl runs
so shitty.

Andre

Your problem is driver related. Go to nvidia and download the latest drivers
and your problems will be solved. An other good resource are www.guru3d.com

Regards
Robert

the fact that setting the texture quality to 100 improves your visuals does
I think indicate that the game sees a resource problem on your machine, and
I assume it's the 32MB on the graphics card.

If I set this from -1 to 100, I don't see any change, neither in quality nor
fps. OpenGL on my machine (64MB on the graphics card) runs a little faster
than D3D (not as much as it used to in N4 though, that's probably down to
the non-compressed textures in OGL - I've been told DXTC or S3TC are often
used by programmers not to increase visual quality but to accelerate things)
and the visual quality is fine.

I think it was Eric Busch who a while ago here in the group said that OpenGL
is very Video-RAM hungry in N2002 due to lack of compression, and what he
said to me sounded like we should even be careful on 64MB cards what
resolution or colour depth we select in OpenGL as N2002 might decided to
downscale the mip quality in order to be able to fit them into the RAM.

So, I think the RAM size on your graphics card seems to be the culprit.

Achim

  Also, I just noticed that you made this post as well.  It seemed
to help. :)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:42:31 GMT, "Harry Mailahn"