Annoying lens flare thingys

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:16 am

Yes, I am back with a question, which I have never really thought about asking. It happens whenever I play Halo, with whatever settings I use. The problem is this: certain lens flares are not 'shadowed'. What I mean is that a bitmap will show 'through' an object, instead of being blocked, which is more realistic. This picture may help explain what I mean:

I would imagine that the problem is that my graphics card is not good enough. I have solved the one on the plasma pistol by nulling out the bitmap, though I am sure this is not the way to go. any help would be appreciated.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:17 am

Something like that happened to me on my old PC. I don't remember if it happened with the plasma pistol, but i do specifically remember that the chip keyes hands you with cortana on it in the first level glowed through MC's hand.

Doesn't happen on my new PC, it must be something to do with the card or the drivers.

What's your card?

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:28 am

No idea. Know how I could find out?

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:33 am

I think it is caused by dynamic lighting being enabled. I have noticed that too, I modded all my maps so dynamic light was enabled for everything, and now that happens to me too.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:17 pm

bcnipod wrote:I think it is caused by dynamic lighting being enabled. I have noticed that too, I modded all my maps so dynamic light was enabled for everything, and now that happens to me too.

Wrong.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:30 pm

Andrew_b wrote:
bcnipod wrote:I think it is caused by dynamic lighting being enabled. I have noticed that too, I modded all my maps so dynamic light was enabled for everything, and now that happens to me too.
Wrong.

Well it was a guess, it only started to happen after I enabled Dynamic Lighting on all things in the maps.

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:32 pm

Well, it happens even when dynamic lighting is disabled. Thanks for the idea though.

wilson · Post by **wilson** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:50 pm

I remember ages ago, when I was playing Halo on my dad's old laptop it would do that. I don't think I've seen that happen on any other computer. My dad had a radeon 9200 or 9100 or something like that. I think it may be because it only supported shader 1.1, which was kinda screwy with Halo. What graphics card do you have?

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:51 pm

donno why it might happen but it does when i move the model and stuff around when modeling. that's the only time it happens to me

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:02 am

WaeV wrote:What's your card?

I wrote:No idea. Know how I could find out?

wilson wrote:What graphics card do you have?

Darkness202 · Post by **Darkness202** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:37 am

i think its the card because mine doesnt do that

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:43 am

for reference my card is an FX5200, I know that it is really bad by today's standards. it might just be the cards...

Teh_Kitsune · Post by **Teh_Kitsune** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:00 am

Philly wrote:
WaeV wrote:What's your card?
I wrote:No idea. Know how I could find out?
wilson wrote:What graphics card do you have?

To find out your card, go to start; run; "dxdiag" no quotes.

When it brings it up hit the display tab and look under "device".

That will tell you the model/series of your card, memory, resolution, and
monitor.

List the memory and model/series type here and I can probably tell you if your card is too low or not, or has a compatibility issue..

Also, once I know the model/maker of the card, I will probably direct you to download/update your video card drivers; which could very well be the problem.

hell_knight · Post by **hell_knight** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:22 pm

bcnipod wrote:for reference my card is an FX5200, I know that it is really bad by today's standards. it might just be the cards...

hey, im on 7600GT and its mid range to todays standards and i get the same light shining thru that you all have...maybe its another NVIDIA issue? [cough]camoflauge[/cough]

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:04 am

Let us see...

hell_knight · Post by **hell_knight** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:02 am

rofl intel integrated. no i think its halo itself that does that.

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:04 am

Is this some kind of nerd joke? Because I can't see anything funny...
Anyway, somebody please tell me whether or not it's the graphics card.

hell_knight · Post by **hell_knight** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:07 am

its not, ive seen the same effect on SLI'd 8800 ultras, so dont go splurge money on a new card to see if it will go away

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:10 am

I wasn't going to. Have fun figuring out why this is then.

MC41 · Post by **MC41** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:06 am

What is a Radeon X13000PRO?