Regression in Half life

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 00:34 schrieb Raphael:
> On Saturday 07 May 2005 12:41, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > > >I switched to the Xorg radeon driver which has 16 bpp support(the 2nd
> > > > column shows 16 now), and made sure that hl runs with 16bpp, but the
> > > > error still occurs.
> > >
> > > Yes it don't work,
> > > because you speak about frame buffer (named Color buffer on traces)
> > > when you speak about 16bpp. I spoke about depth buffer
> >
> > Good, thanks for explaining this to me. I mixed the two buffers.
> > Well, HL doesn't offer any depth buffer setting. There's only one console
> > command, "gl_zmax", which is supposed to set the maximum depth buffer
> > size. The default is 4096, and changing this value has no effect on the
> > error.(HL still tries to get a 32 bit depth buffer)
> >
> :(
> :
> > I sort of fixed the problem for me by forcing the depth buffer to 24 bit
> > in dlls/x11drv/opengl.c, but I understand that this is not a real
> > solution. Is there any chance for a better fix? I have no chance to fix
> > this in the game nor in the video driver
>
> I will see how we can have a better fix but for now can you try attached
> patch ?
Works.
How about adding a registry key to allow the user to force a specific depth 
buffer size, just like the key to disable certain extensions? I've seen that 
a few windows drivers offer such a setting.

Stefan