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BladeRunner · 10-07-2001, 08:50 AM

From the faq

3.5. But I am experiencing banding in the background and on the Powder Blue Tang. Surely 32-bit would fix this?
You are experiencing a driver problem. Please make sure you have the recommended driver from www.feldoncentral.com/Sachs/help.html.

I've now been through three graphics cards, (admittedly all Geforce, GTS, Asus GF3, nVidia Reference GF3 x2) and more drivers than I can remember, including the 12.41's recommended and the latest 21.81's. Still there is banding in the background, (which is much more noticeable on a larger monitor).

Is this not a programming issue?, as in maybe it hasn't been written with enough colours originally, so regardless what colour depth it is run in it wouldn't display it as a pure colour fade without banding? I will soon be getting a Radeon 8500, If that has the same banding problem can I assume it's unlikely to be driver / hardware related issue? This is a valid question, no flames please, I would like to sort this out as the banding detracts from the projected realism.

From the faq,

5.2. Why does the Aquarium run slowly on my GeForce 3 card when I have anti-aliasing (Quincunx) turned on?
Because Quincunx is hype. Turn it off

This is a rather opinionated and wrong statement, Yes the Aquarium does run slowly with Quincunx enabled, so best to turn it off, but as for it being hype. Works fine in a lot of games really reducing the jaggies, with an acceptable performance hit. Nothing else I've used has the massive performance hit the Aquarium does with it enabled, so maybe it's something to do with the Aquarium coding as to why it runs so slow with it enabled?

10-07-2001, 08:50 AM	#1
BladeRunner Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Norwich UK Posts: 37	A Question and Comment about the FAQ From the faq 3.5. But I am experiencing banding in the background and on the Powder Blue Tang. Surely 32-bit would fix this? You are experiencing a driver problem. Please make sure you have the recommended driver from www.feldoncentral.com/Sachs/help.html. I've now been through three graphics cards, (admittedly all Geforce, GTS, Asus GF3, nVidia Reference GF3 x2) and more drivers than I can remember, including the 12.41's recommended and the latest 21.81's. Still there is banding in the background, (which is much more noticeable on a larger monitor). Is this not a programming issue?, as in maybe it hasn't been written with enough colours originally, so regardless what colour depth it is run in it wouldn't display it as a pure colour fade without banding? I will soon be getting a Radeon 8500, If that has the same banding problem can I assume it's unlikely to be driver / hardware related issue? This is a valid question, no flames please, I would like to sort this out as the banding detracts from the projected realism. From the faq, 5.2. Why does the Aquarium run slowly on my GeForce 3 card when I have anti-aliasing (Quincunx) turned on? Because Quincunx is hype. Turn it off This is a rather opinionated and wrong statement, Yes the Aquarium does run slowly with Quincunx enabled, so best to turn it off, but as for it being hype. Works fine in a lot of games really reducing the jaggies, with an acceptable performance hit. Nothing else I've used has the massive performance hit the Aquarium does with it enabled, so maybe it's something to do with the Aquarium coding as to why it runs so slow with it enabled?