Prince of Persia, Warrior Within
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:04 pm
hi all,
These are my Warrior Within notes for anyone who's interested.
-----
Warrior Within: old-school nvidia
Conclusion/recommendations:
Looks good in s3d except for HUD and software ghosting.
Use drivers 78.01 or single core mode with 91.31 or greater.
Usable bad HUD, Help-text too close/offscreen, Health-bar too close but usable.
Use smaller 3d settings with large-screen projector to help solve HUD-too-close problem.
Game needs autoconvergence in order to look/work better in s3d.
Game notes:
Camera - a 3rd person game with camera mouse-control often very limited/disappointing and sometimes frustrating. Zooming in also tilts camera up nicely.
This is the one where he starts in a battle on the deck of a ship at sea.
Game has a long video at new-game start and I don't know how to bypass it.
Game has cool acrobatic combat moves but is very bloody.
nvidia issues: tested with 7800GTX
1) freezes on 3d toggle - fix: use single core mode
(drivers 91.31 and 162.50.)
2) HUD - bad depth - no fix but usable if you don't need on-screen help-text.
Details: Help-text offscreen, Health-bar too close but visible.
No plane control and setting HW-TnL off causes crash on start.
Workaround: Use smaller 3d settings with big-screen projector to help solve HUD problem.
3) Software ghosting - no known fix yet
Explanation: You can see ghosting in a 3d screenshot even when veiwed in 2d.
4) One-eye-stuck problem - fix with StereoTextureEnable=1 in registry 3d-game-profile
Description: when 3d is toggled on, one eye's video becomes frozen with the image unchanging. Other eye's view is OK. Toggling 3d off resumes good video in both eyes until 3d toggled on again.
3d settings notes:
3d settings are in Registry under 'POP2'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nvidia Corporation\Global\Stereo3d\Gameconfigs\POP2
StereoConvergence = 40713c0d hex
StereoTextureEnable = 1
Separation = 18% on a 17 inch CRT (set this in the nvidia desktop right-click control panel)
miscellaneous notes:
I haven't played this game much so it's possible that more s3d issues show up in later levels.
PoP, The Two Thrones, Special Edition includes 2 more games (Sands of Time and Warrior Within)
DX9, 3.25GB hard drive space, from 2004
--- iondrive ---
These are my Warrior Within notes for anyone who's interested.
-----
Warrior Within: old-school nvidia
Conclusion/recommendations:
Looks good in s3d except for HUD and software ghosting.
Use drivers 78.01 or single core mode with 91.31 or greater.
Usable bad HUD, Help-text too close/offscreen, Health-bar too close but usable.
Use smaller 3d settings with large-screen projector to help solve HUD-too-close problem.
Game needs autoconvergence in order to look/work better in s3d.
Game notes:
Camera - a 3rd person game with camera mouse-control often very limited/disappointing and sometimes frustrating. Zooming in also tilts camera up nicely.
This is the one where he starts in a battle on the deck of a ship at sea.
Game has a long video at new-game start and I don't know how to bypass it.
Game has cool acrobatic combat moves but is very bloody.
nvidia issues: tested with 7800GTX
1) freezes on 3d toggle - fix: use single core mode
(drivers 91.31 and 162.50.)
2) HUD - bad depth - no fix but usable if you don't need on-screen help-text.
Details: Help-text offscreen, Health-bar too close but visible.
No plane control and setting HW-TnL off causes crash on start.
Workaround: Use smaller 3d settings with big-screen projector to help solve HUD problem.
3) Software ghosting - no known fix yet
Explanation: You can see ghosting in a 3d screenshot even when veiwed in 2d.
4) One-eye-stuck problem - fix with StereoTextureEnable=1 in registry 3d-game-profile
Description: when 3d is toggled on, one eye's video becomes frozen with the image unchanging. Other eye's view is OK. Toggling 3d off resumes good video in both eyes until 3d toggled on again.
3d settings notes:
3d settings are in Registry under 'POP2'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nvidia Corporation\Global\Stereo3d\Gameconfigs\POP2
StereoConvergence = 40713c0d hex
StereoTextureEnable = 1
Separation = 18% on a 17 inch CRT (set this in the nvidia desktop right-click control panel)
miscellaneous notes:
I haven't played this game much so it's possible that more s3d issues show up in later levels.
PoP, The Two Thrones, Special Edition includes 2 more games (Sands of Time and Warrior Within)
DX9, 3.25GB hard drive space, from 2004
--- iondrive ---