Where did my shadows go??

[Silent Warrior]

I recently got this urge to go nuts with some eye-candy in LOMAC (not that my system can even try to run that at over 20 FPS, but that's another story), which means: Full shadows, self-shading goodness. Or so I thought... No self-shading. It's worked before! :confused:

A recent breakthrough in my FPS-hunt: Scenery to Low gives me the mother of all FPS-boosts. Really.

 

System (I expect this is all the relevant info, otherwise, just say so):

Intel P4 2 GHz

512 Mb RDRAM

Radeon 9700 Pro 128 Mb Catalyst 5.3

LOMAC 1.02

DirectX 9.0c

 

Mods active through Loman 2.1 (updated 2/4):

Realistic Moon Mod

A-10 Zimsters Snow

Dark camo for SU-25

F-15 Japan

MiG-29C #8 9th FW BELBEK AB 2048x2048

MikeF-15I

OTIS ANG F15 skin

SU27 Black Knights

Su-33 Yellow Squadron (oh, hush, I just had to)

A-10A: When HOGs Fly Campaign

EU FLASHPOINT v1.00 PART ONE

EU FLASHPOINT v1.00 PART TWO

Mig-29S Two Day War

pilot_high_g_breathing_and_bitching_betty_for us_(it exceeds maximum table-cell width here)

pilot_high_g_breathing_and_nagging_nadia_for_ru(exceeding width again)

zzzspace v8.0 soundpack for LOCK ON 1.02

Cloud MOD v1.0

Sun&Ambient Light Color Adjustement

High Res HUD Fonts (US/UK)

Missile textures

A-10 HighRes Desert Skin

Chinese airforce skin

EJ Mi-24 Hind GDR earth tone camo - plain skin

F14 SkinPack HighRes v.2.0 Part 1

 

In my Bazar\effects\shad-folder, I have one .dat-file and a slightly different backup. I'm trying the backup now. The only difference appears to be a plus-sign...

[Silent Warrior]

Nope, that didn't work. Anyone? Even suggestions to reinstall are accepted.

...

*Tumbleweed bounces past*

[Bungle_uk]

just a thought but perhaps a different g card driver? I have no evidence to back this up but it would be something i would try

[Silent Warrior]

Hm, yes... Damn ATI... First they knock out whatever made the Freespace 2 Open-team's shinemapping go, and now, apparently, LOMAC's self-shading... *Sigh* You nVidia-boys/gals are still having self-shading, right?

[aap_flanker]

I have the solution!!!

 

Check and install "Omega Driver for NVidia"...

 

In the next link chose your OS and download...

http://www.omegadrivers.net/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=section&id=2&Itemid=55

 

To install, first uninstall your video drivers, reset, and install it...

 

My full shadows are now available again!!!!

It works for me, my system is AMD 3200+ ; 1536mb 400Mhz RAM ; 7950 GT AGP GDDR 3 512MB....

 

:)