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Subject: Remove zoom blur & other useful
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These are rather old discoveries, and they might have been posted here before.

It's possible to remove Zoom blur in sniper with modifying Halo's config.txt file. It is a built-in game feature and therefore not considered as an "illegal" hack.

I wrote a guide in our forums how to do it, it's located here.

Removing Zoom blur makes specular look ugly (it should be disabled) and it will also increase your FPS. On the same post I also explain how to use anistropic filtering (it might work on it's on also, haven't tried).

  • 07.07.2006 1:31 AM PDT
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Woah... that's pretty cool. :D Nice job.

  • 07.07.2006 3:41 AM PDT
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Great job! I must admit that the zoom blur is actually somewhat of a hinderance.

  • 07.07.2006 4:16 AM PDT
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Yeah it is, but i'd be more comfortable if somebody else did it first and make sure it wont screw up my PC.

  • 07.07.2006 5:42 AM PDT
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WTF! I don't wanna disable my specular! It's teh sexy.

  • 07.07.2006 9:00 AM PDT
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WTF! I don't wanna disable my specular! It's teh sexy.
Specular is awesome. But it's hell on your framerate in maps like Damnation at higher resolutions.

  • 07.07.2006 10:09 AM PDT
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It's really bad when you have all the bells and whistles going on Bloodgulch when everyone's shield is pinging and what not. BUt it looks soooo good.

  • 07.07.2006 10:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: someguy
Yeah it is, but i'd be more comfortable if somebody else did it first and make sure it wont screw up my PC.


someguy, it's just a line in the config.txt - It's a valid command which is also explained in the text. If you try it and don't like it, remove a line. That's it. Many uses it, me for instance. I've got XP2400 & 6600GT 128mb GFX card, I can now FRAPS 1024x768 half-resolution @ 50fps.

I can't guarantee that it will work for everyone, but I have not heard of a single case it wouldn't have worked (discluding GFX cards with no shader support).

Specular indeed looks great and it's a shame it doesn't work properly anymore after disabling rendertargets.

  • 07.10.2006 3:23 AM PDT