What is 16-bit dithering?

Fri May 28, 2004 9:43 am by Ro9ue

I see this in my 'Performance' tab under Options in game. I am having trouble with my dumb graphics card again - it's a friggin ATI 9800 XT, for crying out loud, and it's acting like a 16Mb one !? -- and it makes bases and clouds look REALLY crappy. The bases will flicker, their surfaces seeming to shimmer and I can see only little parts of them from 1000m away (before this happened, I could see those same parts from a good 2 or 3 Km away). Clouds are simply horrendous: they look .. pixellated and , well, bad- it's kinda hard to explain without showing a pic.
I just downloaded the very latest drivers for the card, and it does nothing to help. I have every blasted slider bar and thing I can change set to the highest detail, but I still get nasty 1980-looking space and bases.

Does that 16-bit dithering do anything ? thanks
PS - I would have posted this in the Technical Forum, but it looked as if nobody ever even visits it more often than once in a couple months. So I figured I might get more help here .. thanks again

Edited by - Ro9ue on 5/28/2004 2:52:39 PM

Fri May 28, 2004 2:43 pm by Dark_Shadow2004

not too sure about the dithering....but i have a feeling the card is almost fried!!!!

my old GeForce 3 did that a while back...well something similar and nothing helped the latest drivers and everything....i just vsucked it up and bought another card....

right now a GeForce FX 5200 is pretty cheap and it is 128mb

you can get my card the GeForce FX5600 for around 99 bucks and it is 256mb

"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

Mon May 31, 2004 6:18 am by Ro9ue

Thanks for the response; I ended up messing with all my settings until I just got so pissed off that I lowered all my resolutions to 800x600 (*gag). All the problems with the color, bases, and nubulae were fixed at this crappy resolution. So I figured what the heck, I'll try going back to my regular 1024x768, and all of a sudden it was fixed!
So luckily my card isn't fried - that would be outrageously cheap of Dell/ATI since I just bought the comp 4 months ago! Thank you for your help.

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