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Quality Comparisons

Missing Light In NVIDIA Drivers

Settings: 1024x768-32 without FSAA and trilinear filtering

(Frame 3950) The image shown here is compressed and therefore somewhat misleading. Click on the image in order to get a lossless PNG image.

NVIDIA's v44.03 driver renders correctly, as do ATI's Catalyst v3.4 and v3.7. However, with the v45.23, the light caused by the explosion in the background is completely missing on the terrain and plant objects. The new beta driver v51.75 renders the light on the terrain but not on the objects - the pants and the ship in the top right corner.

(Frame 4900) The image shown here is compressed and therefore somewhat misleading. Click on the image in order to get an lossless PNG image.

This shot shows the missing lighting on the objects in v51.75. In v45.23, the lighting is correct. This also shows that the lighting in 45.23 is working in some cases.