[ut2004] "Black snow" artifacts during AS maps flyby?

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Matthew Arnold wrote:

> Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
>>    Hi all (yea, yet again another thing to report). I've noticed some 
>> "black snow" effect on various Assault maps during flyby. At first I 
>> thought it was due to my video card drivers (I was suing an ATi card 
>> with ATi's drivers 3.2.9-6), so I held them as the culprit. But I 
>> also noticed the _same_ effect on my friend's computer with a GeForce 
>> Ti4600 and drivers 4496 and 4620. My question here is why do these 
>> effects only affect the flyby and not the rest of the map once you 
>> start playing... I'm curious really, since the "problem" does not 
>> cause any perfromance issues or crashes or futher artifacting...
>
>
> I don't believe those are artifacts. My guess is that it is 
> deliberate, intending to look like old newsreel footage.
>
> Matt
>
Ohh... thanks :) I should have suppsed a shader effect or something... 
but I felt really intrigued when I saw those on my friend's PC.