Newer video cards?

[TheJamsh]

It doesn't matter what drivers you use, that issue is bumpmapping. its a simple fact of youre card doesn't support it. turn it off and you wont see the problem.

[player5]

Bumpmapping is supported by all modern cards, but probably only the dot3 variant. I turned it off.

[GSH]

My 8800GTX at home definitely supports EMBM bumpmapping. The technology is definitely there. BZ2 also has bugs about using it well (or even properly) in all cases. I know some people think EMBM is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I don't care for it that much.

-- GSH

[TheJamsh]

ive never seen the difference myself.

although, when i first downloaded and installed pb4a, it DID make things an awful lot more alien looking. everything look solid and much more shiny.

[bigbadbogie]

All it ever did for me was screw up the cockpit textures.

[AHadley]

Same, and I get the hangar (pbsbay) floor textures screwed up too.

[Red Spot]

Just was told that my drivers might be a bit old by a new game ...
Does someone know which of these drivers is roughly the latest that is safe to install without messing with BZ2 ?
Thanks

[TheJamsh]

it used to make the sky flicker if i pelted off a few at-stab rounds as well. looked awful!

[technoid]

Bumpmap can add pizzazz to BZII, but only at the sacrifice of lowering framerate a little bit.  It's worse on older videocards with lower memory transfer rates.  Example, on an old Matrox G450 card (one of the first vid cards I used on BZII), EMBM was excellent (because this is a Matrox card afterall), but it lowered framerate by ~10fps and you're already working with about a max of 1.0GB/s mem xfer and around 30fps, if I recall.  Anyway, with default bump toggle in BZII, things are too shiny.  The next number down on the bump blend scale was a little better (and darker).  And a higher screen resolution helped thin out those bump lines better.