Splinter Cell for PC only does 640x480?

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friedpie

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A friend of mine says that SC only works at 640x480 if you have a 32MB video card. Is that true?

Damn, I have been saving my money for a new power supply, nF2 mobo, XP2100+, 512MB PC2700, and now I have to buy a new video card, too? These games are killing me!

 
Bignate603

Bignate603

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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
it should do more then that. at least 800x600. fuk my roomate runs UT2003 at 800x600 on a 32 meg card
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So do I, my geforce2 GTS does it fine
 
Joemonkey

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Wish they'd fix the sound issues

and i get sick of doing the same thing over and over when i screw up... hella eye candy tho!
 
kami

kami

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Runs beautifully on my $199 Xbox ;)

It would probably run OK on my PC too (AthlonXp 1800, 1280mb, GF4 ti4200) but I'm not buying it twice ;)
 
yllus

yllus

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It's a bit testy at 1024x768 on the rig in my signature when heat-sensor mode is active. I've taken it to 1600x1200 with 4x AA for screenshots. I think if I put a 9700 Pro into my system that might actually be minimally playable.
 
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SSP

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Originally posted by: yllus
It's a bit testy at 1024x768 on the rig in my signature when heat-sensor mode is active. I've taken it to 1600x1200 with 4x AA for screenshots. I think if I put a 9700 Pro into my system that might actually be minimally playable.
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Do you still have those screenies? If so can you host them? Just curious what it would look like at that res.
 
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friedpie

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Your friend is full of BS, apparently. :p

My roommate ran it on a gF2MX 32MB ... slow as hell but it ran. :)

- M4H
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I did a google newsgroup search and came up with this.

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"Swoosh" <robbiron@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> The new Splinter Cell Demo readme has the following recommended
> configuration:
>
> 1000 MHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon or better
> 256 MB RAM
> DirectX 9
> 64MB Video Card
> DirectX 9 compatible sound card
>
> What DirectX 9 features does the game support seeing as the only DirectX 9
> compatible video card available at the moment is the Radeon 9500/9700
> series?
>
> Also in the first SC demo 1600x1200 resolution was available but in the
new
> demo it's not for some reason. Is this demo based on the gold release?
>
>
From a reply I received at the Ubi Soft Splinter Cell Forum:

SC-PC doesn't use a single DX9 graphic feature. There are 3 distinct driver
paths in SC-PC:

-GF3/4Ti ---> Shadow buffer algorithm, light beam intersection, detail
texturing, reflection, pixel shaders 1.1, DX8.NV API (~xbox)
-Radeon 8500/9700 ---> Shadow projector algorithm, detail texturing,
reflection, DX8.1 API, pixel shaders 1.1
-GF2/4MX, Radeon 7500 ---> Shadow projector algorithm, no pixel shader,
almost no reflection, register combiners

With 32 MB cards, you are limited to 640x480 resolution and shadow
resolution is limited to Medium as is shadow details and effects quality.
With 64 MB cards, you are limited to 1280x1024 resolution and shadow
resolution is limited to Medium
With 128+ MB cards, you can go up to 1600x1200 and have shadow resolution to
High.

Dany Lepage
3D Programmer
Splinter Cell - PC

So if the game does not use any DX9 features, why to they recommend it in
the readme?

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Notice the line that says 32MB limited to 640x480?

Owned!
 
XZeroII

XZeroII

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It's a game, what do you expect? I want a game to look good, not run on old hardware (despite the fact that I have an older video card :()
 
Mani

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Originally posted by: yllus
It's a bit testy at 1024x768 on the rig in my signature when heat-sensor mode is active. I've taken it to 1600x1200 with 4x AA for screenshots. I think if I put a 9700 Pro into my system that might actually be minimally playable.
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Were you able to get AA working with it? I have heard AA is disabled for this game.
 
yllus

yllus

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Originally posted by: SSP
Do you still have those screenies? If so can you host them? Just curious what it would look like at that res.
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Deleted them, but I'll re-take some tomorrow morning. In such a shadowy game it's hard to find moments for good screenies. Right now I have a midterm tomorrow morning which I'm taking a break from studying for, so... :p
Originally posted by: friedpie
With 128+ MB cards, you can go up to 1600x1200 and have shadow resolution to High.
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I guess that explains it. I'm running a GF4 Ti4200 w/128MB of DDR.
Originally posted by: Mani
Were you able to get AA working with it? I have heard AA is disabled for this game.
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I played a tiny bit at 2x AA and Quincunx AA at 1024x768, it definitely worked - especially considering I noticed the slowdown and turned it off after a while. :p 4x AA I gathered worked because it was even more hellacious on performance; I really didn't notice a difference in image quality. Are you guys using the 1.1 patch for the game? Maybe that addresses the issue...
 
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