Halo: NightScope gives me black, not green...

I'm using the 3.8 Catalyst and a Radeon 9800 pro. In Halo, on the level
where you need to use the scope, I press the Q (default) button to activate
the nightscope view, but all I get is black in the scope view.

Is this a bug, or something I need to tweak in the display properties for my
Radeon?

"Rieper" waxed eloquent in
:

I'm using the 3.8 Catalyst and a Radeon 9800 pro. In Halo, on the
level where you need to use the scope, I press the Q (default) button
to activate the nightscope view, but all I get is black in the scope
view.

Is this a bug, or something I need to tweak in the display properties
for my Radeon?




Did this to me too, with Cat3.7s' I just bumbled along without the night
scope...

Jason A.

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:08:49 -0500, Jason Ash wrote:

"Rieper" waxed eloquent in
:

I'm using the 3.8 Catalyst and a Radeon 9800 pro. In Halo, on the
level where you need to use the scope, I press the Q (default) button
to activate the nightscope view, but all I get is black in the scope
view.

Is this a bug, or something I need to tweak in the display properties
for my Radeon?




Did this to me too, with Cat3.7s' I just bumbled along without the night
scope...

Jason A.

You can solve this bug by forcing 1.4 pixel shaders instead of 2.0. In your
shortcut add the command


-use14

This will enable the pixel shaders 1.4 and not the 2.0 which make the scope have
this black infra-red problem.

Pluvious

"Pluvious" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:08:49 -0500, Jason Ash
wrote:

"Rieper" waxed eloquent in
:

I'm using the 3.8 Catalyst and a Radeon 9800 pro. In Halo, on the
level where you need to use the scope, I press the Q (default) button
to activate the nightscope view, but all I get is black in the scope
view.

Is this a bug, or something I need to tweak in the display properties
for my Radeon?




Did this to me too, with Cat3.7s' I just bumbled along without the night
scope...

Jason A.

You can solve this bug by forcing 1.4 pixel shaders instead of 2.0. In
your
shortcut add the command


-use14

This will enable the pixel shaders 1.4 and not the 2.0 which make the
scope have
this black infra-red problem.

Pluvious



----However, does it degrade the rest of the graphics? Will there be any
speed difference by using 1.4 instead of 2.0?

Thank you.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:04:49 GMT, "Treefingers"
wrote:


"Pluvious" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:08:49 -0500, Jason Ash
wrote:

"Rieper" waxed eloquent in
:

I'm using the 3.8 Catalyst and a Radeon 9800 pro. In Halo, on the
level where you need to use the scope, I press the Q (default) button
to activate the nightscope view, but all I get is black in the scope
view.

Is this a bug, or something I need to tweak in the display properties
for my Radeon?




Did this to me too, with Cat3.7s' I just bumbled along without the night
scope...

Jason A.

You can solve this bug by forcing 1.4 pixel shaders instead of 2.0. In
your
shortcut add the command


-use14

This will enable the pixel shaders 1.4 and not the 2.0 which make the
scope have
this black infra-red problem.

Pluvious



----However, does it degrade the rest of the graphics? Will there be any
speed difference by using 1.4 instead of 2.0?

Thank you.


Yes .. it won't look at good.. but it will give you some more FPS and increase
your "speed". Check out this link:

http://halo.bungie.org/misc/halopcperformancefaq.html


Pluvious