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f1 2001 graphics quality - Suggestions????

Rafe McAuliff

f1 2001 graphics quality - Suggestions????

by Rafe McAuliff » Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:16:23

People, just getting into f1 2001 and loving it. Lots of fun to play
(having a blast preparing for Malaysia!) but a few snags have been
struck along the way.

The first one looks very similar to the "moth eaten trees" thing back
in GPL. Before the D3D patch no 2 for it. All the trees have really
bad transparancies and look terrible So are there any fixes for this?

No. 2 is a LOT of flashing going on, with stands, signs, any other
such things. Kind of like mip mapping is not turned on? I dunno, but I
haven't been able to find a fix and would appreciate any suggestions.

OK, system specs are:
Athlon tbird 1.4ghz

Detonator drivers 21.85
256mb cas2 ram
WinME

I know there are a lot of driver issues here, and these drivers aren't
perfect for f1 2001, but I've found that all newer drivers give me NO
menus in GPL. Which is no ***y good! So I ended up reverting to the
half-assed ones, 21.85. Any suggestions?

Rafe Mc

rik zeppeli

f1 2001 graphics quality - Suggestions????

by rik zeppeli » Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:31:40

Well, first do you have the patch that just came out?
It specifically addressed problems with GF cards and claims an overall
performance boost.
The documentation for the patch also recommends that all GF(nvidia) card
users should use the 23.11 drivers.


> People, just getting into f1 2001 and loving it. Lots of fun to play
> (having a blast preparing for Malaysia!) but a few snags have been
> struck along the way.

> The first one looks very similar to the "moth eaten trees" thing back
> in GPL. Before the D3D patch no 2 for it. All the trees have really
> bad transparancies and look terrible So are there any fixes for this?

> No. 2 is a LOT of flashing going on, with stands, signs, any other
> such things. Kind of like mip mapping is not turned on? I dunno, but I
> haven't been able to find a fix and would appreciate any suggestions.

> OK, system specs are:
> Athlon tbird 1.4ghz

> Detonator drivers 21.85
> 256mb cas2 ram
> WinME

> I know there are a lot of driver issues here, and these drivers aren't
> perfect for f1 2001, but I've found that all newer drivers give me NO
> menus in GPL. Which is no ***y good! So I ended up reverting to the
> half-assed ones, 21.85. Any suggestions?

> Rafe Mc

Rafe McAuliff

f1 2001 graphics quality - Suggestions????

by Rafe McAuliff » Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:48:59

Yeah, got both of the patches and it has fixed a lot of probelms. But
these graphical issues I have are post patch. Been fiddling around a
bit with the LOD setting, and it does seem to have improved the
situation slightly, but not really enough.

I think the 23.11 drivers are a lot better than the 21.8x drivers, but
for the problem I mentioned before - that GPL suddenly has no menus at
all, which makes it unusable. Anyone else had that problem? Even the
credits when you exit GPL have no text! Very weird.

Rafe Mc

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:31:40 GMT, "rik zeppelin"


>Well, first do you have the patch that just came out?
>It specifically addressed problems with GF cards and claims an overall
>performance boost.
>The documentation for the patch also recommends that all GF(nvidia) card
>users should use the 23.11 drivers.



>> People, just getting into f1 2001 and loving it. Lots of fun to play
>> (having a blast preparing for Malaysia!) but a few snags have been
>> struck along the way.

>> The first one looks very similar to the "moth eaten trees" thing back
>> in GPL. Before the D3D patch no 2 for it. All the trees have really
>> bad transparancies and look terrible So are there any fixes for this?

>> No. 2 is a LOT of flashing going on, with stands, signs, any other
>> such things. Kind of like mip mapping is not turned on? I dunno, but I
>> haven't been able to find a fix and would appreciate any suggestions.

>> OK, system specs are:
>> Athlon tbird 1.4ghz

>> Detonator drivers 21.85
>> 256mb cas2 ram
>> WinME

>> I know there are a lot of driver issues here, and these drivers aren't
>> perfect for f1 2001, but I've found that all newer drivers give me NO
>> menus in GPL. Which is no ***y good! So I ended up reverting to the
>> half-assed ones, 21.85. Any suggestions?

>> Rafe Mc


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