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Message ID: 15493
Date: Mon Feb 28 16:40:27 GMT 2000
Author: Talies the Wanderer
Subject: Re: (OT) mip = many innapropriate pictures?


At 07:47 AM 2/28/00 -0600, you wrote:
>From: "Elijah Meeker" <elijah@...>
>
>Hi,
>sorry this is off topic and I would happily accept as an answer a pointer to
>where it is on topic...but my 2D card died and I leapt at the opportunity to
>migrate to a voodoo3 2000. Well, I was guessing at all the correct settings,
>but mip mapping seemed like a good idea, until I selected it and restarted.
>At that point none of the textures were ones the designers intended and as
>entertaining as it was to see an female Ogres face scroll across the sky I
>am not sure I care for it as a steady diet. I settled on turning it off and
>using "Force mip mapping" on the 3dfx control panel, which returned the
>world to "normal".
>In short, is there a set of canonical settings for EQ and a Voodoo3 2000?


I had a similar problem - took many hilarious screenshots. The long of it
is, however, I ended up reinstalling about 4 times before it finally fixed
itself. And now that you mention it, I'm thinking maybe the mipmapping was
disabled in the last reinstall...

Talies the Wanderer