Tenebrae Quake

[Big G]

Has anyone played Tenebrae Quake with a top spec gfx card (5950 ultra or 9800 pro)?

I've been playing for a bit just to go "ooh ahh, stencil shadows" but i find that even on a 2700+ / 9800 Pro the fps are still unbelievably shit on anything more than 640*480.

Anyone else find this?

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[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

Ohh.. i must try that again

 

[Big G]

I've just got hold of an updated beta tenebrae that improves Radeon performance and things are running quite a bit better.

I must admit, i think stencil shadowing looks ugly and it only suits some scenes. The lighting looks too bright/false and the shadows are too hard and unrealistic.

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[Ch3tan]

What is it? Where can I get it?

 

[Big G]

http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/

Tenebrae is a mod for the original quake (or indeed GLquake) that mods the graphics engine to have stencil shadowing very much like the Doom3 engine. Basically, real time shadows that move/change depending on the light source and what's blocking the light source.

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[wyrd_fish]

kool

 

[Wij]

Quake forum ?

 

[Big G]

You'll find my original query was relating to hardware performance but was subsequently hijacked by "what is it?".

Thanks for your useless input though

G

 

[throdgrain]

Blimey that looks nice !

 

[Insane]

Originally posted by Big G
You'll find my original query was relating to hardware performance but was subsequently hijacked by "what is it?".

Thanks for your useless input though

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i'll grab it tonight and test it on the Radeon 8500 and Geforce4 TI4600 knocking about at home and see what its like.

i suspect the Geforce4 will perform better tho, as its OpenGL based

 

[smurkin]

ppffttt....its a bit like playing quake on LSD. I tried it with my radeon 8500 and it didnt half chug....looks like I'll need a new card for DIII

 

[Xavier]

well. considering the 8500 is on a par with the GeForce3Ti500 in most cases, yeah the Ti4600 should kick it to pieces, if all else fails it's got 2x the frame buffer!