How to enable dynamic water to get the waves effect?

realBonk · Post by **realBonk** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:31

How to enable dynamic water to get the cool waves effect?

I dont get any waves (explosion etc.)

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:34

Go to settings.exe, if its turned on and not working, then you're not running Blue Gene and you're out of luck.

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:35

just launch the settings.exe
and select the dynamic water

man ur fast bruce

realBonk · Post by **realBonk** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:43

Well it was activated. But thanks for the tip anyway. Blue Gene? Damn, it seems that my Radeon 9800 Pro suck as hell. So I dont have the hardware 4 this feature. I will google 4 Blue Gene to know which graphic card are able to do this nice feature and to see that my card is just too old.

realBonk · Post by **realBonk** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:50

I didn't find anythink usefull ...

Blue Gene is a supercomputer manufactured by IBM.

What is the feature-name and the name of the graphic card that will support the waves of dynamic water?

What graphic card is needed? 400,- Dollar graphic adapter? My Radion costs 90,- Dollar

Thanks for Info and stuff.

realBonk · Post by **realBonk** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:56

OK Ok... I found the answer in another Thread.... Geforce GT 6600 ... so my Ati Card is not supported and outdated

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 11 Sep 2006, 13:58

Masse wrote:man ur fast bruce

Not always.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 11 Sep 2006, 14:08

moved to help and bugs

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 11 Sep 2006, 18:30

It's not about your card being outdated, it's Ati writing trash drivers that don't work right with OpenGL, which Spring is based on.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 11 Sep 2006, 20:37

Yeah, has to be a mid to high range nvidia card to work properly. Same with a lot of other features of Spring.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 11 Sep 2006, 23:05

KDR_11k wrote:It's not about your card being outdated, it's Ati writing trash drivers that don't work right with OpenGL, which Spring is based on.

Well, that, and the fact that his card is outdated. Nothing from that generation used SM3 IIRC. My 9800 xt could barely manage to kick out 30 FPS with shadows turned on, so even if somehow SM3 was in the cards for 9800 which was the fastest card at its time, he'd have about 2 fps.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 11 Sep 2006, 23:11

Ah, right, I thought the 9*00 was equivalent to the 6*00.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 11 Sep 2006, 23:16

Nah, it was ATI's kick in the teeth for Nvidia's horrible FX line that could barely keep up with the year-old 9700 pro.

Don't you kids take History classes anymore?

realBonk · Post by **realBonk** » 11 Sep 2006, 23:26

... ... time to change my favourite graphic card trademark. Bye Ati ... welcome back nvidea (last used with Riva TNT2)... whatever. Thanks 4 the interesting Points you mentioned in the last posts.

Thx 4 the feedback

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 11 Sep 2006, 23:38

Just so you know, I have a 7800 GS and can't make the water effects work in conjunction with other options. Just because you have a nvidia card doesn't guarantee it'll work, and the performance hit will still be massive, even on most maps without water.

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 14 Sep 2006, 13:51

I have 2x6600GT 128MB and it is basically unusable with dynamic water.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 14 Sep 2006, 20:10

Spring is the only game I know of that has any effect of this kind, and the only average-user program of any kind I know of with such a broad implementation. Probably with DX10 cards it'll become a realistic thing to expect to be able to play with.

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How to enable dynamic water to get the waves effect?

How to enable dynamic water to get the waves effect?

well ok...

Blue Gene = Supercomputer?

OK OK

well... well