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DSR 4x (3840x2160) / 17% smoothness / HBAO+ / Anisotropic 16x / All maxed out (Bloom too) / SneakyUpgrade 1.1.5 (Fat Edition)

 

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Game mechanics for Thief 3 aside, for me it was one of the most enjoyable Thiefs. But then I personally ignore game mechanics, wonky textures, broken whatever, in favor of a good story and I really l

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I agree with Lux. While no one can deny that TDS has plenty of flaws, what it lacked in some areas it excelled in others and that been the story. I was able to immerse myself in the brilliant story an

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I occasionally fire TDS up too...there are lots of things I think TDM does better, but a couple things that TDS is better at:   1. Directional sound. In TDM, I don't have a clear sense (with my 5.1

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Petike the Taffer

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W-O-W

 

BC's been fiddling with TDS for years, so it didn't really surprise me when I first learned of the "TDS Gold" project. And as far as I know, Beleg has also made one or two TDS fan missions (but don't count on my memory).

 

 

DSR 4x (3840x2160) / 17% smoothness / HBAO+ / Anisotropic 16x / All maxed out (Bloom too) / SneakyUpgrade 1.1.5 (Fat Edition)

 

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Great work. :) Think I'll finally reinstall TDS soon.

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VSync not working in Win10 and so the mouse sensibility is altered with high FPS value (but you can always limit the FPS with the tweaker tool of SneakyUpgrade). Investigating :D

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TDS has a certain charm and somethings look better in it than TDM, but a lot of things dont - eg the fire particle is awefull.

It's not "fire", it's a NUCLEAR PLASMA :D

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TDS has a certain charm and somethings look better in it than TDM, but a lot of things dont - eg the fire particle is awefull.

 

Indeed it had a nice atmosphere sometimes. But mostly I think it's the soft shadows that are ahead of the competition.

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Indeed it had a nice atmosphere sometimes. But mostly I think it's the soft shadows that are ahead of the competition.

Soft shadows and modeled architecture pieces. Fortunately, these are 2 things TDM has been investing in for its future.

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Soft shadows in TDS? :|

Extensive use of projected/stencil shadows, but the first game with SOFT (stencil) shadows is FEAR (2005).

 

Soft shadows obtained with shadowmapping are present in older games (Unreal 2).

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Yeah, the only soft shadows in TDS are ones that are baked into light-maps as I recall. There is an overall softness due to the post-process filter in the game though I believe.

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Soft shadows and modeled architecture pieces. Fortunately, these are 2 things TDM has been investing in for its future.

But I guess full EAX support comes only with the GitHub branch of this https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 released and implemented respectively into TDM?

That's been the #1 desirable feature from Thief games to be seen in TDM for me.

 

http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=3954 As I understand this is the direct bug tracker link for the problem. Any news on this? Any ETA on when/if the GitHub project ever gets done?

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Up :D

 

dgVoodoo2 2.55.4 DX11 wrapper + ReShade 3.4.x

 

Some fancy "Fable style" *PNG* screenshots with HDR+Bloom (by Marty McFly)

FXAA as last postprocessing layer (no MSAA but you can force it in dgVoodoo2 or in the game itself disabling the native bloom shader) and no HBAO+ (it's only possible in DX8, will try the behaviour with Crosire DX9 wrapper)

 

 

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*1920x1080 (but you can of course use DSR / SSAA cranking it up to 4K)

*in-game MSAA 4x / No native Bloom

*Anisotropic Filtering 16x via NVCP

*HBAO+ via NV Profile Inspector (NVidia GPUs only) thanks to the D3D8/9 rendering (it's not possible with dgVoodoo2 wrapping to D3D11)

*ReShade shaders:

-HDR (default settings)

-qUINT Bloom (default settings)

-LumaSharpen (default settings)


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