Dynamic water

AceXMachine · Post by **AceXMachine** » 24 Jun 2006, 20:37

I am having trouble getting dynam water to work (with the neat ripple effect). I don't know if i am using the wrong settings or if it is my hardware/drivers.

I have an ATI 9550 using latest Catalyst (6.5?) drivers.

Does it just not work on this platform?

Any help would be appreciated.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 24 Jun 2006, 21:00

the spring devs hate ATI with a vengence. nothing seems to work on ATI.

Targ Collective · Post by **Targ Collective** » 24 Jun 2006, 21:14

No, that's not fair. Most likely the architecture is a puzzle to them, one they are trying to solve.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jun 2006, 21:15

Drone_Fragger wrote:the spring devs hate ATI with a vengence. nothing seems to work on ATI.

Get over it, the devs do not HATE ati... some ati cards are quirky.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:01

then how come only Nvidia cards work well? My ATi gives me blue screens of death when playing spring, Crashes, Bugs out, And won't do dynaic water. Its the same with lots of pewople on ATI and spring.

Aun · Post by **Aun** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:17

Drone_Fragger wrote:then how come only Nvidia cards work well? My ATi gives me blue screens of death when playing spring, Crashes, Bugs out, And won't do dynaic water. Its the same with lots of pewople on ATI and spring.

How the hell does that even relate to to the two prevous posts?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:19

Drone_Fragger wrote:then how come only Nvidia cards work well? My ATi gives me blue screens of death when playing spring, Crashes, Bugs out, And won't do dynaic water. Its the same with lots of pewople on ATI and spring.

I don't know maybe you have a shity setup... and no I get occasional crashes and cannot run dynamic water also.

There is no anti-ati conspiracy. just that ati has limits and or differences that rads don't have. I am sorry you cannot grasp this.

Post by **jcnossen** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:41

It's just that none of the developers have ati's.
And you could say dynamic water is made for next generation cards, in a year most people will be able to use it...

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 25 Jun 2006, 02:08

I can confirm the Dynamic water not working on ATI thingy, but instead of crashing and doing weird stuff, it just switched it back to Refelctive water. That seems to be the only thing that wont work on ATI for me, except for the damn purple buildpic in the top left corner... Is that EVER going to get fixed?

AceXMachine · Post by **AceXMachine** » 25 Jun 2006, 02:25

I get the purple flashing top left biuld pic too....

Reflective water works great, altho you have to change the cam angle to appreciate it. I guess my next card will be dual/quad nvidia with SLI :p

Hunter0000 · Post by **Hunter0000** » 25 Jun 2006, 04:22

You need SM3 on your card anyways don't you?

Radeon 9550 doesn't have SM3. THe oldest one is X1300 if I understand correctly.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 25 Jun 2006, 04:47

Hunter0000 wrote:You need SM3 on your card anyways don't you?

Radeon 9550 doesn't have SM3. THe oldest one is X1300 if I understand correctly.

Nail on the head. Only the most recent generation of ATI cards (1xxx series) has shader model 3 support, which is apparently required for dynamic water.

Don't feel too bad though. I've got a 7800 GS and I still can't do dynamic water for some reason.

But what the hell's the deal with the flashing top left buildpic/button??? I can verify that too, it's definitely there and it's definitely irritating. Happens on all ATI systems I've seen.

DarkOppressor · Post by **DarkOppressor** » 26 Jun 2006, 01:18

I've got a 7900 GT with the latest drivers, and I can't run dynamic water without getting out of sync and the game dying of lag. Is that normal?

wizard8873 · Post by **wizard8873** » 26 Jun 2006, 04:57

maybe it's got more to do then with just the videocard. well, at least with the nvidia people. i've got two 6800GS's and can run the water just fine. granted it runs slower. it even runs on my 6600GT without problems albiet slowly.

DarkOppressor · Post by **DarkOppressor** » 26 Jun 2006, 07:23

What kinda cpu, ram, etc have you got?

unpossible · Post by **unpossible** » 26 Jun 2006, 10:15

i've got an x800 GTO and the only trouble i have is that the shadows look a little funky on animated buildings (eg the radar tower, buzzsaw, mexxes etc etc)

wizard8873 · Post by **wizard8873** » 26 Jun 2006, 18:25

DarkOppressor wrote:What kinda cpu, ram, etc have you got?

on my main PC AMD Athlong 3800+ X2 @ 2.1GHz, 2GB of Patriot Systems RAM, Win XP SP2, dual 6800GS's in SLI, i'll let you know the drivers once i get home.

as for the 6600GT system, AMD Athlong 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, 512MB Patriot Systems Ram, Windows 2000 SP4, ill post drivers once i get home

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