[Einstine909]

So i've seen the screenshots that have been taken with hdrish ad things like that. I have an ATI X1650 and i'd like to partake in the fun
Where would one come across the smartshaders? i downloaded some, but they arnt doing anything, do u need a specific version or what?

- I thought this was a gaming in general thing, it applies to other games too...

[CP5670]

Download ATI Tray Tools, which includes the useful shaders (HDRish and HDRish-lite) and lets you enable them through its game profiles.

You then need to get this dll package. Extract that somewhere and rename the two 6.3 files to atioglxx.dll and atioglx1.dll. You can delete the other files.

For FS2, you can just drop the two dll files into the game directory and it will use them automatically. In general though, this will not work. You instead need to replace the equivalent files in your windows\system32 folder. You will want to keep your existing OpenGL DLLs though, so move them to some other folder first and then put the two 6.3 files in their place. I made a small batch file that lets me quickly switch between the two sets of drivers, so I can use the 6.3 files in the games where I want the effect and the 7.5 files for other games.

This feature only works with OpenGL games, by the way. I mainly use it (the Lite version) with several Unreal-based games, such as Deus Ex, and a few others like Descent 2 and 3.

[Einstine909]

Thanks, that worked really well.

here is a screenshot of a interesting smartshader i found...

[CP5670]

Most of them create various crazy effects that are fun to try out but not very useful for actual gaming. The two HDRish things are the only exceptions. (although what they actually do is not HDR at all, but static bloom)

[colecampbell666]

How do I access the smartshaders?

[Polpolion]

IIRC there is an ASCII smartshader that has everything in text.

[colecampbell666]

How do I access the smartshaders?

[CP5670]

uh, I described how to do it like four posts earlier.