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First post, by sliderider

Posted on 2011-11-07, 23:05

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After you boot it go to Options and set Bump Mapping to low if you are experiencing the crash to desktop bug. I don't know if this is a software or hardware bug but it is the only way that I have found to correct this issue. What usually happens if it is set to anything else is when you try to start the game it will hang for a couple of seconds and then exit. Setting BM to low allows the game to start normally.

Reply 1 of 7, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-11-07, 23:11

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This bug starts to occur in Radeon HD and up, doesn't occur on X600-800 or X1x00 at least

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Reply 2 of 7, by sliderider

Posted on 2011-11-07, 23:20

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leileilol wrote:
This bug starts to occur in Radeon HD and up, doesn't occur on X600-800 or X1x00 at least

Did ATi change how bump mapping is handled with the HD cards or did they remove it in favor of tessalation? Or is bump mapping and tessalation the same thing?

Reply 3 of 7, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-11-08, 00:06

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PS 1.4 regression

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Reply 4 of 7, by DosFreak

Posted on 2011-11-08, 00:16

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http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sCl … cation&iId=4479

Could also try it in a Windows guest in Vmware\Virtualbox and see if that makes a difference.

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Reply 5 of 7, by sliderider

Posted on 2011-11-08, 08:43

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leileilol wrote:
PS 1.4 regression

What does that mean?

Reply 6 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2011-11-08, 18:44

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shader , presumably.

Reply 7 of 7, by Davros

Posted on 2011-11-08, 19:05

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That explains pixel shaders not pixel shader 1.4 regression

ps: afaik, the unreal engine used by republic commando didnt support bumpmapping, it was a hack done by nvidia that was very buggy (could be wrong though)

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