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Title: New Radeon 4.2 Display utility Post by: a2daj on April 02, 2004, 11:00:22 pm Some of you may already know about the new Radeon 4.2 Display utility that was released recently. The main feature is that it enables 3D Overrides for all Retail Radeon cards (no OEM card support). The reason why I'm posting it here is because you should be able to greatly increase the quality of the textures in Ghost Recon but using the 3D Overrides to enable Anisotropic Filtering. It's a much better technique than the game's built in Mipmapping. Turning on 2x or 4x FSAA wouldn't be too bad either, but you may be constrained to 2x due to bandwidth issues at 4x.
So any of you retail Radeon owners might want to give it a try. I actually mentioned using the 3D Overrides with my Radeon 9800 Pro about 8 months ago in a differe thread. I supplied a link to one of my web pages with screenshots of Ghost Recon (among other games) with different screenshots with different visual quality enhancements enabled. Here's the link again: http://homepage.mac.com/a2daj/PhotoAlbum14.html The differences might not be noticeable immediately, but you can download the jpgs to your desktop and use Graphic Converter or preview to switch between the pictures to really notice the difference. However, nothing would be better than experiencing the enhancements in person. |