Hey everyone, In my engine, before the lighting pass, I do a Z-fill pass, to speed up rendering. On geforce cards, it works nicely. On a FX 5200, with full shaders, the speed increase is 34 fps to 64 fps, almost twice as fast. But, on radeon cards, I get z fighting artifacts. If I set depthbias to anything other than 0, such as 0.01, 1, 16, 128 (values I tried), my depth pass looks like it was rendered with ZEnable set to false, and the zbuffer contains the actual rendered z values. Example, I have a pillar infront of a wall. On the geforce, after the depthpass, the pillar is rendered and the wall it occludes is rejected (early z). On the radeon, with the messed up z values, the wall shows up infront of the pillar in the depthpass, so the whole wall and the whole pillar are drawn. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? My problem isn't occlusions, it's just that on radeon cards, with zbias to anything other than 0, it seems to disable the zbuffer, even if I put ZEnable = True after setting the depthbias. Thanks, Cade [Edited by - CadeF on March 30, 2006 6:14:52 PM]

What does the reference rasterizer display when rendering the same scene?

The reference rasteriser, as expected, displays what the geforce displays, no zfighting issues at all.

These graphics cards have all shown the same problem, the X1900XTX has the latest drivers, the 9800XT a version behind the latest and the 9600XT 2 versions behind the latest. The Radeon Mobility has the drivers from the OEM CD, which is dated 2-27-2006.

Radeon 9600XT 128MB
Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Radeon Mobility X1800
Radeon X1900XTX 512MB

Offtopic: Also, would anyone know which drivers could I use to update the Radeon Mobility? Only the drivers on the OEM CD seem to work, I cant find any drivers which will install.

I tried a z-bias of 0.00001 and it still acts like my zbuffer is nonexistant.

Offtopic: Thanks, but in every list of supported cards with drivers, the latest mobility card is x800, I'm looking for x1900.