PSOBB: Shader effects not as good as they could be?

[Jack]

I was having a flick through a PC magazine I saw in Tesco the other day and I saw they had a feature on Blue Burst. One thing that caught my eye was a screenshot they had where the guy had perfect shadow details and good transparency effects on a Flowen's Sword. I don't get this, and I've got all the in-game graphical settings turned up to the top. I noticed a lot of the shader effects are a fair bit worse than on the GameCube. Examples below:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/jackhunter64/shader.jpg

The transparency on the Flowen's Sword is very pixellated, as is the camouflage on the Satellite Lizard on the bottom left. The water effects are a mixed bag - the splashes are a bit blobby, as you can see, but the ripple effects when standing still look great. It's funny this is happening, because a lot of the other effects look great, such as the reflections in the Seabed. Does anyone else's effects look the same, or have you got them working properly?

[Corey]

For 2 days, the first 2 days I played BB on my new laptop, I had a -perfect- looking shadow...now it's not as good at it was. It's either I never noticed (but I noticed this when I was doing CCA after my 4th day of having a laptop) or some glitch.
dunno...

[Getintothegame]

It really does depend on which card you have. I had a Radeon 9700 PRO the other day, and it didn't look as good as the Radeon 9800 PRO. I mean, I have perfect transparency effects right now. As compared to my nVIDIA something-really-cheap-at-Wal-Mart buy, I couldn't get transparency to look anything but transparent. I'll grab you a screen soon.

Oh, and as another example, my integrated graphics card couldn't even handle the transparency. I'd show a multicolor thing instead of transparency. I'll also hunt down one of my shots for that, too.

Also, very unlikely, but your options could be partially working. This was the problem I had with PSOBBJP, something messed up, and frameskip never worked. Had to download/install.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Getintothegame on 2005-07-14 23:37 ]</font>

[Jack]

I've already reinstalled it once, but I can't for the life of me remember why. It looked like that before and after.

[rena-ko]

hm, it would help if you state what GPU you're using. maybe you have to play with the card's options (seperated from the game's options) as well.

[Ryna]

I'm using a 6800 GT and the graphics I see are very similar to those of Jack's. About the only thing that is better for me is the transluncency effects on the Flowen. The graphics I see aren't quite as pixelated as that, but they still don't look very good.

[Jack]

I got an Connect3D X800 XL 256MB installed this morning, and it still looks pants.