Full Shadows Bug with certain weapons

[Mustang]

ok, i've recently noticed some strange things with Full Shadows lately, it seems that the shadowmap does not cast upon the AGM-65D/K, AIM-9, AIM-7 or AIM-120 on my setup.

 

i'm using ATi Catalyst 6.2 with my Sapphire X800XT 8XAGP, heres a picture of the glitch occuring in the A-10 quick flight mission

notice the pylon holding the AIM-9s and the missiles themselves, also the AGM-65D

 

in this screen you can see the AIM-7s and AIM-120 not looking right at all

 

the SU-25Ts weapons look fine though, as do all the other russian missiles/bombs.

 

anyone else seeing this too?

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

you got the balls to moan about that.

 

me is pissed off cuz your pic is clearer than what i get :(

 

:D

 

joke, dont be taking it seriously....

 

I will admit tho, ati cards are that touch sharper than nvidias.

 

EDIT:

 

i be looking at that f15 pic, it looks as tho there is nothing holding them missiles onto the aircraft ? weird

[Mustang]

you got the balls to moan about that.

 

me is pissed off cuz your pic is clearer than what i get :(

 

:D

 

joke, dont be taking it seriously....

 

I will admit tho, ati cards are that touch sharper than nvidias

 

LOL, try going into graphics.cfg and changing "ScreenshotQuality = 90;" to "ScreenshotQuality = 100;" :p

 

BTW i've compared these pics with 169th_Ice's nVidia 7800GTX 512mb and he *doesn't* have this issue :o

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

what issue ? the shadow issue or the sharper quality on ati cards compared to nvidias ?

 

this is quality i get, its sharp, but i used a hell of a lot of AA, and AF, now i think ati cards have a sharper image without as much AA/AF

 

btw i changed the file to 100 instead of 90 ;) i never knew that. cheers dude...

 

[Caretaker]

Apparently the "missing shadows" problem is an issue with ATI cards indeed. Personally I only noticed it with the F/A-18 model (it lost the self-shadowing at some point, but I don't know when :(), and that mode shares some characteristics with various US weapon models so it seems logical it happens there as well.

[169th_Dredd]

I can also confirm this. Was looking at this with Mustang earlier.

I have a ATI X800Pro.

 

All I can think of is that a different shader effect is possibly used on the other weapons that dont have soft shadows cast on them.

[Mustang]

Ok, i've been to ati.com and filled out another Catalyst Crew Feedback form covering this bug, hope it gets noticed :)

[SilentBob]

Noticed the Full shedows bug too: ATi X1800XL 256MB with Cat 6.2

 

SB