New Ati Cat 3.8's Released!

KillymageeKillymagee Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3136Members
edited October 2003 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">VERY cool !</div> <a href='http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=11&submit.y=8' target='_blank'>ATI</a>


Very cool effects! check it out for yourself! <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->



<a href='http://forums.specialistsmod.net/viewtopic.php?t=8494' target='_blank'>effects</a>

Couldn't find any topics on this so, meh forgive me if its already posted. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    I look forward to installing the new drivers when I get home. The 3D ASCII and Sketch filters look to be PAINFUL amounts of cool, the sepiatone slightly less, selective B+W a little less, and Pothole... well, pretty useless honestly. But I'd need to see it in action to find out if it does anything besides overlay an oval mask on the screen.
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    why nvid? why? i wanna do that
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    edited October 2003
    They are <b>AWESOME TO THE MAX!!</b>

    No, seriously, I'll post some screenies in like ten minutes. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    <i>Edit:</i> Voila...
    <a href='http://home.rochester.rr.com/duffman/ns_nothing0000.JPG' target='_blank'>Pic</a>
    <a href='http://home.rochester.rr.com/duffman/ns_nothing0001.JPG' target='_blank'>Pic #2</a>
    <a href='http://home.rochester.rr.com/duffman/ns_nothing0002.JPG' target='_blank'>Pic #3</a>

    All in-game shots, using the sketch filter! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Note that the sketch filter does dock your FPS a bit, but the others don't as far as I've tested.
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  • Siberian_DingoSiberian_Dingo Join Date: 2003-01-15 Member: 12326Members
    sry to be critical( i am aNvidia fan to the core) something like that scretch stuff would keep me entertained for about a few hours. And whats so great about changing colors? i could just tape coloed shrink wrap on my screen, and not lose a single frame rate. i'll take a look at the drivers. chances are that those functions will work with any card, i may be able to rip them out and make it work on my geforec FX 5600, or kill it.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    The cool part is that ATI thought to put them in there. And can do so with no performance loss, as they have *cough* DECENT pixel shader performance. >:)

    The only part that worries me... if you're playing on Marines with the 'Sketch' filter enabled, will it make seeing cloaked Aliens easier? Same with the selective color mode, possibly being able to pick Kharaa out of a duller background? That could be... problematic.
    I'm thankful also that ATI thought to put in per-game performance tweak options, just like PowerVR had with the Kyro cards. Letting you boost games that you've got extra power lying around on, without having to go in and manually switch stuff around every time you change between games. Now if they take it further and allow the 'advanced driver tweaks' (playing around with Z-buffer settings, triple buffering modes, texture compression types and so on) it'd end up being really cool. Of course, nVidia would probably take them and produce 'severe rendering errors' (again) to try and hype their slower, shoddier-looking cards. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Oct 8 2003, 08:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Oct 8 2003, 08:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The cool part is that ATI thought to put them in there. And can do so with no performance loss, as they have *cough* DECENT pixel shader performance. >:)

    The only part that worries me... if you're playing on Marines with the 'Sketch' filter enabled, will it make seeing cloaked Aliens easier? Same with the selective color mode, possibly being able to pick Kharaa out of a duller background? That could be... problematic.
    I'm thankful also that ATI thought to put in per-game performance tweak options, just like PowerVR had with the Kyro cards. Letting you boost games that you've got extra power lying around on, without having to go in and manually switch stuff around every time you change between games. Now if they take it further and allow the 'advanced driver tweaks' (playing around with Z-buffer settings, triple buffering modes, texture compression types and so on) it'd end up being really cool. Of course, nVidia would probably take them and produce 'severe rendering errors' (again) to try and hype their slower, shoddier-looking cards. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    i'll take eight
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  • Siberian_DingoSiberian_Dingo Join Date: 2003-01-15 Member: 12326Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Oct 8 2003, 09:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Oct 8 2003, 09:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Of course, nVidia would probably take them and produce 'severe rendering errors' (again) to try and hype their slower, shoddier-looking cards. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LIES!!

    *cups ears and babbles*
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Siberian Dingo+Oct 8 2003, 09:46 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Siberian Dingo @ Oct 8 2003, 09:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i could just tape coloed shrink wrap on my screen, and not lose a single frame rate. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Err, well, you could do that if you wanted to. I'll stick with my free 25mb download, hehe.

    Oh, and so far, sketch is the only one I've encountered that's made me lose any frames/second at all.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    edited October 2003
    Now if only there were a way for an HL mod to hook these filters. Personally, I could *easily* see the Sketch filter (perhaps tinted green or red) as a neat replacement for the Kharaa flashlight, if it enabled a fullbright as well. Fix the Marine flashlight to act as it does in a number of other mods (requiring ignoring the built-in HL flashlight and coding one up), and the NS guidelines for mapping up dark areas could theoretically be relaxed, allowing for fully dark areas and much more cinematic encounters. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    (edit) And to add a 'down side', hook in the Pothole filter as well to rob the Kharaa of peripheral vision. (/edit)
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    saran wrap would affect performance though .... by static-ing your screen to hell and back
    thats only your performance though ... but i think i win anyways <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • WheeeeWheeee Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13713Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    yeah, sketch pwns my framerate badly. But these are really nifty, and playing games in green ascii is hella fun -> you can't see jack, but it's so freaking awesome when you fire blindly and kill something. It feels like the matrix <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    edited October 2003
    Just a note... The new Omegas based off of the Cat 3.8s are ready to go. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Get them <a href='http://www.omegacorner.com/index.html' target='_blank'>here</a>. I'm downloading. I'll let you know what how my Radeon 9000 takes to the drivers. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    [EDIT] Also, here's a small known issue that they have, that we should be aware of....

    "Quake III or Half-Life engine games remap the arrow keys to the shift key when the Num Lock is enabled. This issue will be resolved in an upcoming CATALYST? release."

    Make sure that NumLock is off when you play Half-Life, mm'kay?
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Oct 8 2003, 09:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Oct 8 2003, 09:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The only part that worries me... if you're playing on Marines with the 'Sketch' filter enabled, will it make seeing cloaked Aliens easier? Same with the selective color mode, possibly being able to pick Kharaa out of a duller background? That could be... problematic. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Wow, thanks for the idea!

    *runs off and exploits*

    j/k
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Suddenly the FX is was planning on getting will be changed to an ATi.

    Oh well nVidia power my X-Box.....
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    But not the next revision, which has been confirmed to be using an ATI graphics chip. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    thanks to ATI for such a cool possible desktop.... shame I've got a Geforce 4 and had to pinch this piccy off that thread <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    The Steam has you!!!

    <img src='http://www.undertheinfluence.org/~mrredundant/gordonhax.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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