Radeon 8500 with NFS High Stakes

[pmistry 0]

Anybody have this combination? If you do does the fog work in the game. Alot of older ATI hardware had problems with implementing fog into games especially High Stakes.

[rgodart 0]

No, fog still doesn't work.

 

I'm using a radeon 8500 275/275 with latest official ATI drivers (6071)

[Palos 0]

Supposedly ATI released new XP drivers yesterday:

http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/r...&cmdNext=GO!

 

I guess those ARE the 6071s?

[rgodart 0]

Yes, those are the 6071s indeed

[Palos 0]

Damn...tell me more about the Radeon 8500, I was going to buy one in the next week or so. How does it scale up to the task? Driver problems? Compatibility?

[JP- 0]

Its an excellent card, i really should have kept mine and not got this gf4, i like it alot better. Driver problems are greatly exagerateed, dont let no smoke in NFS put you off

[Admiral LSD 0]

I remember asking this somewhere before but I not only forgot where but I forgot what the answer was: Does the Radeon 8500 support 8 bit paletted textures?

[pmistry 0]

8-bit palletted support in all ATI cards is pretty much non-existent. As for my fog question apparently there is some hack out there that modifies the registry to point from Z-buffering FOG to W-buffering FOG. Search the forums of http://www.rageunderground.com for NFS in the Radeon section.

[Admiral LSD 0]

Damn, there go my hopes of playing Terminal Velocity again...

[pmistry 0]

I'm not entirely sure about 8-bit palletted support Admiral. Try asking at http://www.rageunderground.com or http://www.rage3d.com all I know is that my Rage Pro and Rage 128 Pro didn't have it and the original Radeon core didn't either.

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

Quote:

Damn...tell me more about the Radeon 8500, I was going to buy one in the next week or so. How does it scale up to the task? Driver problems? Compatibility?

Its a beauty of a card.

Crisp, fast and definatly useful.

Dual monitor (retial version comes with DVI to VGA converter) is great....and the second monitor I have running at 1600x1200.

As far as drivers go, I only ran into one problem. When I was playing freedom force, characters and objects 'streaked' or flashed across the screen. I got the 6071's and I havent had the problem yet.

Card is extremely stable, runs great and I can OC mine to 300/300 stable (probably can go higher, but the vid card isnt my bottleneck anymore - damn tbird).

[pmistry 0]

Fog does work on the Radeon 8500. I have a Radeon 8500 LE 128 meg built by ATI, and all you need is this simple fix. Using the 6.13.10.6094 Catalyst 2.1 drivers.

http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/radeon.htm

 

Or if you have NFS: Porsche Unleashed just use its d3da.dll file and dump it into your NFS: High Stakes folder and presto, enable fog in High Stakes and see the graphical facelift and improved frame rates.

[DosFreak 2]

It wasn't that simple of a fix before the Catalyst drivers.

[pmistry 0]

I was using a GF2MX before so I always had good fog support, but hey the Radeon was cheap so I said what the heck, turned out to be a good investment, the only 2 problems I have had were with NFS: High Stakes and no fog, but that is now fixed. The other was with Unreal 1, it wouldn't load with Direct3D so I downloaded a user made OpenGL patch, from www.oldunreal.com works good with GeForce series cards too and is faster than D3D.