Fog problem

[Tommyjones]

Hello,

 

i could not find an answer in either your FAQ nor in other topics in the tech forum.

 

So here is my problem:

In the fanmission "Heart of salvation" the fog switches fast between non-existent, partly-existent and full-existent. In other words, when i move the mouse and therefore the sightangle, the fog might be not visible on certain surfaces, which appears clear and the rest foggy. The sudden and fast change of this prevents me from enjoying the mission. I would rather deactivate the fog alltogehter, but can't find an option for that.

 

My graphic card: ATI Radeon HD 5870.

 

Tommy

[Mr Mike]

That card should be fine so try disabling Catalyst AI and, failing that, update your GFX drivers.

[Tommyjones]

Thanks for your reply.

 

Catalyst A.I. is already disabled because of rotating sky problem, which fixes it and my graphic card drivers are up do date.

[nbohr1more]

I believe that it would be either:

 

r_skipFogLights 1

 

r_skipBlendLights 1

 

or

 

r_skipParticles 1

 

(not at home to try out... )

[Tommyjones]

Neither of those options (entered in the DoomConfig.cfg) changed anything recognizable, and an in-game console can nowhere be found. I can't describe the error well, but it changes very frequently (like 10-30 times a second) that the fog just disappears from certain surfaces.

 

Furthermore, this effect can not be captured to a screenshot, it will just show how it should look like.

 

Am i really the only one having this problem? I don't see any other complaints about fog thus far.

Edited June 22, 2010 by Tommyjones

[Serpentine]

Got a 5780 here and no problem like that in the last years worth of driver revisions.

 

Do you have any other doom3 mods installed (pre TDM)? do you have bloom enabled?

[Tommyjones]

I have only darkmod (and the related doom 3 patch) installed. I don't see a bloom setting option either ingame nor in the Catalyst Control Center, so i assume it is off.

[nbohr1more]

Neither of those options (entered in the DoomConfig.cfg) changed anything recognizable

 

You need to create an "Autoexec.cfg" to apply cvars (and use the "seta" command in the file) DoomConfig.cfg wont hold your changes...

 

CTRL-ALT- ~ (Tilde)

 

Should open your console so you can tryout the cvars in real-time...

 

You can also experiment with renaming the Fog Textures in the pK4's...

 

I presume you've already retried the TDM updater?

[Tommyjones]

Thank you! I had to press CTRL+ALT+^ instead of ~, and the r_skipFogLights 1 command helped to disable it. Too bad, the fog surely would have added up to the atmosphere, but it's way better now without a buggy fog. Deactivating bloom with r_bloom 0 did not help. Still, thanks very much, now i can enjoy this supposedly fine mission as well .

[Serpentine]

It's a very odd problem, sounds like something strange your end... but if you do ever find what causes it please let us know!