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Posted on
April 02, 2002 by Thomas
McGuire
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 Command
& Conquer: Renegade represents Westwood’s first foray
into setting a FPS game in the C&C universe on the PC
& has been met with a mixed enough response. This guide
will take you through setting up the Game, along with other
informational tips regarding Graphics Cards supported in the
Game.
Begin by downloading the latest patch for C&C:
Renegade; this may resolve many of the bugs or other
problems you may have encountered. You can find the latest
patches for the Game at Westwood's
official website (Or using the Renegade Auto Update
feature alternatively).
Now download the
latest Drivers for your Graphics card & Soundcard. This
may solve (most) Display or Audio problems you might be
having. There are links to various manufacturers on the Drivers
page. Install DirectX
8.1 on your system if you haven’t done so yet. This
may also fix problems with Graphics, Sound & Input
devices.
If you experience any lockups & such they might be
caused by overclocking, if so try lowering the Memory/Core
speed of the overclocked device. Still
having problem? Check the EA
Technical Support.
As
regards Graphics card support in Renegade there are a few
things worth noting. The first being that Renegade supports
N-Patches (Truform) available with latest ATI Radeon
Graphics cards, e.g. 8500 for increased polygon counts in
Models. Support for this will be auto-detected by the Game
itself & should give improved visual quality as compared
to other Graphics cards.
The
second thing to note is that the Game will automatically
disable DXT1 support with NVIDIA Graphics cards, assumedly
to maintain texture quality given how poor NVIDIA’s DXT1
implementation is, though I’ve yet to receive a response
from EA Technical Support about this (Having emailed several
weeks ago I doubt I ever will). For full details about this
please see this
thread on the matter in our Forums. The net effect of
this will be that of slightly reduced performance as
compared to had DXT1 support being enabled, though DXT2 –5
remain enabled as expected.
Click
on Start, Programs, Westwood, Renegade,
Renegade Config & select the Video tab.
Driver.
This section is only really of use if you have multiple
Graphics cards installed. If so just select the one you wish
to use to render the Game with here, e.g. if you have a
Voodoo 3 & Kyro 2 installed then you’d (probably) want
to use the Kyro 2.
Resolution.
Selecting a lower resolution can improve performance &
maintain a stabler, higher frame rate. Higher resolutions
look better (sharper & smaller jagged edges), they also
tend to run slower. This all depends on how slow/fast your
system (Particularly Graphics card) is of course. 1024 x
768 would be ideal in C&C: Renegade for the majority
of users.
Color
Depth.
Set this to 16 bit for best performance, but reduced
visual quality (More apparent color banding). Select 32
bit for best visual quality (Less apparent banding),
although performance will be reduced – especially on older
Graphics cards. Using a 32-bit colour depth will also reduce
rendering errors as it uses a higher Z-Buffer precision for
performing depth calculations. Those with Kyro Graphics
cards should set to 32 bit given the negligible
performance difference over 16 bit as compared to
other Graphics cards.
Windowed
Mode. Tick
this option to enable C&C: Renegade to be played in a
window on your desktop rather than in Full-screen mode.
You’d be best off leaving this Unticked.
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