Tomb Raider 4 (yes, very old)

Piega · 2008-07-27T07:40:51

Hi there, I have a problem and many others. It is for a very old game, Tomb Raider 4 Last Revelation. Now after the latest adjustment the editor from TR4 is released for public to create your own levels. This community is still big and strong and it is even allowed to change code to the engine to expand gameplay and options. With latest hardware there is a clipping problem and it is annoying as it decreases the graphic value a lot in the game. On my old geforce III with 6x.xx drivers this problem was not there. It introduced itself from the 7x.xx drivers and higher and till now I found no solution. This clipping also exist in 16 bit both on old and new system but is not present in 32 bit on the old system with geforce III. The only thing I can think of is to the change the engine's direct x settings to disable this clipping to be compatible with latest drivers and hardware. Problem is, who has the knowledge to dig into this material? Therefore I seek help in here. If anybody knows direct x and can read the old engines data to disable this bug I would be grateful. Here is a screenshot to show what I mean: Clipping starts from a certain distance. Objects will draw into each other and into walls. The steady two second are from my geforce III were this problem does not exist. The blinking shots are the clipping ones on my current geforce 7800 GTX latest drivers. The clipping is strong when you move the character around but also occurs if Lara stands still and go together with her breathing animation. I believe it is a problem caused by the drivers being too modern for this old game. I do believe though that it can be solved within the game engine. I would like that a patch can be created to solve this problem. If anybody can help me let me know and I will provide the data to check it out. There must be a proffesional out there! Thanks! If I posted this in the wrong place of if I misunderstood the meaning of this forum please delete my topic. [Edited by - jollyjeffers on July 21, 2008 10:11:08 AM]

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by Piega July 21, 2008 09:44 AM

9 comments, last by godmodder 15 years, 9 months ago

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July 27, 2008 07:40 AM

Levels from the old games won't be compatible with the IrisEngine I'm afraid. Not that it would be hard to add this compatibility, but for now it's just not included. It's really meant as a fresh start for the game: new engine, new level editor. All adapted to be cross-platform and to make use of modern API's and toolkits.

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