https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140625/08443327682/future-is-now-cheating-online-games-leads-to-arrests-japan.shtml 

I guess i'm skeptical too, but maybe its possible ??. Charger fails and sends a huge spike through usb/device/in-ear-phones 

I'm only huge if you arouse me. 

http://i.imgur.com/1OjMg9g.jpg 

you think it would be a good idea to put in a "spambot check" where the anonymous user has to solve a captcha by adding numbers correctly? 

maybe have a verification question for x number of first posts 

The silly bartards certainly are persistent 

The Quake Info Pool command-line reference has this to say about "-bpp 32":

"ADVANCED OPTION: Sets the pixel depth mode the video adapter should switch into, note setting it to 24 or 32 won't actually increase the visual quality of the game, usually just slow it down, but useful for getting certain GL cards to function with GLQuake."

It's actually been a long time since I ever bothered to use this option. I don't remember (or never knew): what's the symptom of the problem that is solved by this? 

the symptom is that glquake defaults to 16bpp on any cards that support it (not sure if this is supported in modern days) and you'll get discolored palette colors in your textures, since glquake also uses the framebuffer bit depth to determing texture bit depth.

Most people may not notice it, but if you are used to 32bpp and you look at 16bpp, you may notice the colors are "off" on familiar textures -- statusbar seems a shade too green, purple sky textures don't seem right, etc. 

you can see 16bpp artifacts VERY clearly on levels with fog, because fog creates smooth gradients, which render much more cleanly the more bits per pixel you have. 

Got it, thanks. I was a little puzzled because that QIP text made it sound like there was some bug above and beyond actually setting the texture depth.

BTW is this an issue only for original GLQuake, or do Fitzquake DP etc. have similar behaviors? 

many glquake variants have the same behavior in 16bpp mode. fitzquake included. 

I wish the fog banding in quake weren't so bad, the only fog colors that look good to me are very dark and very subtle but that's asking for green and orange stripes :(

can we have -64bpp please? just, you know, add more bits. 

or add dithering. I wonder if that's tricky to implement. 

DX10-generation video cards (Geforce8800/Radeon HD2400) removed all dithering for 16-bit color, so it would have to be reimplemented via post-process shader, which is possible, and I have also done it in GLSL before.

It helps to know the time context when that bit on the QIP page quote was written when cards had dithering and Maddes was using a Voodoo-based card which doesn't support 24/32bit color anyway, hence the whole misleading "no difference" thing. Further to the fact that Voodoo cards dithered and THEN filtered their image to mask the dithering leading to their infamously blurry appearance.

and GLQuake defaults to 16-bit color since that's all 3dfx could initialize on. Gotta leave out the hassle of setting -bpp 16 for those mainstream performance-desperate 3dfx users. 

EntEd [EDIT]

Posted by Jonan [121.72.119.122] on 2014/07/02 08:14:13
Hey all.

Had to reinstall a lot of programs recently, and I've lost my EntEd reg key. Any one know where I can get one?

Cheers. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnQZIBl3HiI 

Well deserved 

Seanza had been sending verbal abuse to TotalBiscuit constantly before he replied with that, admittedly tasteless, comment. 

Maybe if that dude didn't spend so many years in a business he wasn't suited for, he'd be okay right now.