Re: Doom 3 has "ADVANCED" lighting???

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From: Mad.Mutt
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:57

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Athura wrote:
>>I saw somewhere this is an issue with some nVidia cards and Athlon CPUs.
> 
> I
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>>have all the latest drivers installed including motherboard chipset
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> drivers
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>>but I have also tried backdating to all versions, they all give the same
>>problem.
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>>My system:
>>Windows XP Home SP1a
>>nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600
>>512Mb RAM
>>AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1668GHz
>>Creative Soundblaster Audigy 5.1
>>Socket A motherboard, A7A266-E, ALiMaGiK 1 Chipset, DDR RAM / SDRAM
>>
>>Cheers, Gaz.
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>>
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> 
> I have a similiar system (XP Home SP1a, xp2000 and a ti4400, sb live value)
> and have no problems with doom 3 or any other game like you describe
> I'm using the 53.03 drivers for the video card.
> 
> 
Yeah, I'm on a marginally faster Athlon and an nVidia MyVIVO card. 
Lighting is ok - in line with what everyone else is bitching about :)

I'm using a very early, very raw version of XP Pro without any service 
packs, other than a security plug from grc.com.
No crashes at all. Based on the feedback I've heard, I'd blame SP1 !!

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