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"/mel/" <news@mel.cix.NOSPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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> colin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >    I upgraded to an ATI all in wonder radeon 9800 and ive just gone
> > back to one of my old favourite games unreal, (the original unreal),
> > i had to change the dispaly device to direct3d and it works fine in
> > windowed mode but when i switch to ful screen it looks awefull, as if
> > its in 16 colour mode the dithering and lack of colours is so obvious
> > especialy on castle walls etc.
> >
> > i tried changing every setting available but no diference although
> > increasing anti aliasing makes it look better its stil obviously only
> > using a few colours. ive got latest drivers etc.
> >
> > i tried unreal tournament and this was the same until i changed from
> > 16 bit to 32 bit resolution and this solved the problem but there
> > doesnt seem to be a colour depth setting for unreal, has anyone come
> > acros this or any ideas how to make it better ?
>
> Patch unreal to the last patch - 226F I think it was, then get the
> third-party opengl renderers from http://www.oldunreal.com - my dll
reports
> version 2.1.0.7. Incidentally there's info on that site on how to use the
> detail textures from the second UT CD in Unreal. I can post the relevant
> sections of my system.ini file if you like.
>
> UT, again there are third-party renderers out there - I think the one I
> ended up using was from http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/
>
> For both Unreal and UT I had very little success with Direct3D rendering,
on
> my AIW9800Pro.
>
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>  /mel/
>
>

thanks very much for the help il try that :)
Colin =^.^=  (aka solo)