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Feb 12^th, 2003 at 9:03am

ajver Offline
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Can somebody please tell me whether my NVIDIA GeForce4 MX420 video card supports the FS2002 reflective effects.

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Reply #1 - Feb 12^th, 2003 at 9:35am

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Ajver. I would help if I could. I have no knowledge of nVidia cards but have been told the MX series does not support the FS2002 "chrome" reflective effects.

You should be able to find out yourself. Most of the FS2002 defaults have reflective textures. If these do not show up with the Reflect option enabled it's most likely your card does not support them.

PS. My own Voodoo5 5500 did not support reflective textures so I was in the same position until very recently. Personally, I think it's no big deal & I was quite happy without them.

PPS. It's possible this might have been fixed by installing DirectX 9.0 & the latest official nVidia drivers. Roll Eyes

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Reply #2 - Feb 13^th, 2003 at 2:16am

ajver Offline
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Thank you Hagar. It was actually something that you said before that made me think that my card is not supporting reflective surfaces.

I was just trying to confirm this -- to establish why I could not perform that UAL tube tutorial successfully.

As you say, it is probably no big deal if you think in terms of the cost of a new card -- it is just a pity that you buy a new product and the supplier did not tell you before what you needed to make it work.

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Reply #3 - Feb 15^th, 2003 at 6:25am

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Odd, I have an MX2 and it supports reflective textures.
Try the following open your diplay.cfg file and at the end of the GeForce 2 section add this for your card:

;NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
[000010DE:00000172]
DriverValidate2=1

Then check your reflective textures box in options, and off you go.

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Reply #4 - Feb 17^th, 2003 at 12:02pm

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Make sure that in your hardware settings, mulit texture is selected. When this is turned off, your reflections, VC lighting will not show up.

That is the hardware settings inside FS2002. Your frame rates may drop, but it is worth a shot..... If this is selected then look into the panel for your card that says anti aliasing etc, and tinker with these settings. Hope that gives you some good ideas.

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Reply #5 - Feb 26^th, 2003 at 3:06am

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Well, this is the way it works..........

The GF4 MX series cards are actually TURNED OFF in FS2002.

You need to enable it by editing your "display.cfg" file in the game's folder.

Here is the bit you have to edit. JUST REMOVE THE SEMI-COLON IN FRONT OF YOUR CARDS ENTRY. Reflective textures will work fine then.

;----------------------------------------------------------------------
; GeForce3/4
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 <--- My Card (note the ";"
[000010DE:00000170] is removed)
DriverValidate2=1
;NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
[000010DE:00000171]
DriverValidate2=1
;NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 <--- Your card
[000010DE:00000172]
DriverValidate2=1

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