f1c video mode

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: -- ****************** See New Email Address ****************** Jordan Sacks - From the total - [email hidden] - perspective vortex -

"Jordan Sacks" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:Hap_c.619$Q44.527@trnddc09:

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> 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

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 "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "Jordan Sacks" <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:Hap_c.619$Q44.527@trnddc09: > > > 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 almostat > the bottom. > > dh