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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP
Intel Pentium™ III or AMD Athlon™ 500Mhz
256MB RAM
32MB Direct3D-compatible video card with Hardware T&L, 32-bit color, DirectX™ 9-compatible driver (e.g., NVIDIA GeForce 2 class)
2.4GB free Hard Drive Space
Additional hard drive space for Windows swap file and saved game files.
8X CD-ROM
16-bit DirectX™ 9-compatible sound card
56k modem, DSL, Cable Modem or LAN for Multi-play
100 BaseT LAN connection for Light Cycle Multi-play
DirectX™ 9 (included)
Java-compatible Web Browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.7 or later)

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RECOMMENDED SYSTEM

Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP
Intel Pentium™ 4 or AMD Athlon™ 1Ghz
512MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX video card
2.4GB free Hard Drive Space
Additional hard drive space for a Windows swap file and saved game files.
32X CD ROM
Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 sound card
DSL, Cable Modem or LAN for Multi-play
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NVIDIA GeForce FX, NVIDIA GeForce 4; NVIDIA GeForce 3; NVIDIA GeForce 2; ATI Radeon 9700; ATI Radeon 9000; ATI Radeon 8500; ATI Radeon 7500; ATI Radeon 7200; Matrox Parhelia chipset; Matrox Millennium P750

That sounds right from what I have seen on the box as well for the game.


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I have an Nvidia Geforce 2MX 400, and i still get the glowing effect, however i didn't quite realise that my graphics card comes with pixel shaders. Or does it, hmmmmm.

The game (demos) definitely glow when playing it at night, so i think i do have it.

I'm pretty sure all you need is a GeForce2 or better to see the glow effect.

Well, with my really old school tnt2 ultra the glow effect dosent work. Thats a DX7 card, same as the geforce 2...i think, correct me if im wrong.order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pillwhere to buy abortion pill ordering abortion pills to be shipped to house buy abortion pill online

I think the wording there just means it's compatible with DX8, not that it's a full DX8 component. E.g. DX8 does fully support the card in that it works with the card no problem, but that doesn't mean all the features of DX8 are implemented by the card.

If you compare the Mx info sheet to the Ti info sheet, you'll notice the Ti sheet has a specfic section refering to the vertex and pixel shaders while it is noticably absent from the Mx sheet.

The GF4mx series cards DO NOT HAVE PIXEL SHADERS, of this I am certain. What is unclear is whether the glow effect is done through pixel shaders, or other means.order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pillabortion pills online abortion pill online purchase cytotec abortion

Ok, as promised I've uploaded some pics that compare screens with the glow effect and without the glow effect. The pics are 1024x768 and each has a side by side comparison of a glow enabled scene with a glow disabled scene. The pics are fairly large in file size because I used very little compression even though they're JPGs - I didn't want them to be all blurry. The shots are only from the first level in the intention of not spoiling anything.

First of all the glow effect can be toggled from the menu through the following option:

Options -> Performance -> Display -> Toggle Screen Glow

The glow effect is acutally utilized on the menu screen, so you'll notice an immediate change when you toggle it on or off. If you notice no change, or the above option isn't present you don't have the glow effect.

This screenshot demonstrates the glow effect in the menu. The glow is enabled on the bottom screen. Notice the transparent halo around the menu bar. Also note that the glow enabled screen looks much brighter, but the brightness setting for each screen is the exact same. The difference in lighting is an effect of the glow.

This screenshot shows the glow effect on ROMie (very noticable at his head). Also notice of the glow on the corrupted section to the left. In addition the difference of the player's disc between each screen is a dead give away of the glow. The glow enabled screen is on the right of course.

This screenshot displays a general scene in the first level. The glow enabled screen is on the right. Take not of the general green aura surrounding the corrupted area. Also notice the halos around the 'lights'.

EDIT: Needed website space, the links are now dead.

Now that you have a point of reference (and a menu option to tell pretty easily if you're getting the glow effect) I'd really appreciate if you GF2/GF4mx owners could confirm whether or not you're actually getting the glow.where to buy abortion pill ordering abortion pills to be shipped to house buy abortion pill online

Yep, i definitely have the glow effect then, so obviously my graphics card is supporting the pixel shaders. In all cases my screen looks like the pictures that were glowing.

Yay.

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Well, I stand corrected then. Thought for sure you needed standardized pixel shaders (1.0 or 1.1) to get the glow, but like I said I wasn't totally sure.

I actually did know about the NSR. It is a pixel shader, but not in the standard format that evolved through the GeForce 3 (and become known as pixel shaders 1.0 through 1.2 - the Radeon later added 1.3 and 1.4). nVidia never developed a langauge for the NSR and it wasn't supported by Direct X so to use the shaders a programmer had to write to the card directly in assembly (which was actually how you had to handle all pixel shaders before high level shader support was placed into DX8 and DX9) and it is no easy task to integrate into the rest of the graphics engine which is written in a high level language (C++). To the best of my knowledge there has never been a game that used the NSR other than Giants: Citizen Kabuto. I think at one point Morrowind was going to use it (on characters and everything), but they scrapped that after they releazed the GF2 would be dead by the time the game was released. They ultimated ended up using the standardized pixel shaders, and just on the water.

So I guess either:
1) because of nVidia's help Monolith was able to make the glow effect for both standardized pixel shaders (GF3, GF4Ti, Radeon 9000 and above) and for nVidia's archaic NSR cards (GF2/GF4mx)

2) The glow effect doesn't use pixel shaders, and is accomplished through other means which require only a basic T&L enabled card.

PS. Thanks for link fix redrain85, I've since edited the post so the link is correct.

Edit: Ok I was researching this a little bit more and dug up an old GamesDomain interview with Cliff where he is quoted as saying "Right now, you need a Geforce3 or equivalent to see it, although Nvidia and Monolith are hard at work trying to get it to work on all Geforce cards." It looks like they were successful. So I guess it is a pixel shader effect, but nVidia eventually got it to work with the less complex NSR hardware. I bet there's a separate render path for standard pixel shader cards and those with NSR. Of course this now begs the question: does the glow effect look the same on GF2/GF4mx as it does on true pixel shader cards? order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pillwhere to buy abortion pill abortion types buy abortion pill online