[ut2004] missing eyecandy with openGL?

Alex Malinovich demonbane at the-love-shack.net
Fri Mar 26 07:00:53 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 03:02, Felix Maibaum wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I just saw the game on windows for the first time, and couldn't help but 
> notice that it looks a lot nicer. Especially a lot of the lighting effects 
> seem to be missing, e.g. shadows and vehicle's headlights.
> 
> Is there a list of what is misssing, and is there a chance that some of that 
> will change? I mean AFAIK the nvidia drivers expose all the capabilities of 
> the cards trough OpenGL extensions, so at least theoretically the same stuff 
> as with directx should be possible.
> I especially miss the shadows, they make everything look so much more real.

I don't see any difference between Linux and Windows personally. It
sounds like you might be seeing a driver issue. Are you using an NVidia
board? (And, if so, do you have the latest version of the drivers?)

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