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Q3A ugly sky fixed. Link to patch.

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Vrangel

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Download patch from g256.com.
Details how its done are at guru3d.

Theres some confusion about versions. Patch at g256 is for Q3A 1.17
I am using it without any problems. Dont forget to reenter CD-key.

 
So this means you can have S3TC turned on but the sky looks fine? What about the other textures? What do they look like?
 
Its not a hardware bug, its Q3's fault. It allows lightmaps to be compressed which causes the problem. ATI also uses S3TC but they dont compress 128x128 textures as a cheap workaround for the problem.
 
Quote from guru3d:
"It seems like GF/GF2 use 16-bit texels after DXT1/S3TC texture decompression (that's why sky into q3 looks so ugly). I don't think that it's a drivers' problem, I almost sure that it's a bug into NVidia chips. If it's really hardware problem, software developers must use other compression formats (DXT2-DXT5 or S3TC with alpha) to avoid ugly banding effects like sky into Q3".

Patch forces DXT3 instead of DXT1.
 
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