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1. Battle Engine Aquila
2. BloodRayne
3. Colin McRae Rally 3 v1.1
4. Delta Force: Black Hawk Down v1.2.1
5. Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind v1.6
6. Enclave
7. Enter The Matrix v1.52
8. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City v1.0
9. Need for Speed Hot Pusuit 2 v242
10. Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide v1.31
11. No One Lives Forever 2 v1.3
12. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter v1.07
13. Silent Hill 2
14. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell v1.2.087
15. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness v49
16. Unreal Tournament 2003 v2225
17. "IL2 Shturmovik: Forgotten Battles v1.1b
18. "Pirates of the Caribbean"

Battle Engine Aquila

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	Ground textures are not drawn by new Radeons. This is especially strange, as Radeon 9700 Pro textures ground all right.
		None solutions so far. GeForceFX 5800 screenshot is to the right.

BloodRayne

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Enabling bump mapping and dynamic shadows in launcher results in some psychedelic madness. Only bump maps are drawn instead of bump-mapped textures, and only black triangles - instead of shadowed textures.
		Disable bump mapping and dynamic shadows in launcher (see screenshots).
GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 Ti4600 GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800 GeForceFX 5900	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90	If you press Esc or any other cancelling key in the beginning of the intro, the game often crashes to Windows with a Direct3D8 error report8.	-
		This doesn't occur is game resolution is the same as desktop resolution. You can just watch 5-10 sec of intro and press Esc. The bug shouldn't show up with Det. 45.23 or DirectX 9.0b. Anyway, it just stopped bugging after some time...

Colin McRae Rally 3 v1.1

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 Ti4600	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Impossible to enable FSAA ingame, as the menu lists only "None". It seems it's more of a feature than a bug. Developers might be thinking that	-
		FSAA can be easily forced in drivers.
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	The same thing as with GF4MX/Ti - FSAA can't be enabled from the menu.	-
		If you remember, FSAA can be easily forced in drivers.
All cards	All versions	"Phantom" shadow appears on some road-close vertical surfaces. Seems like a game engine bug.
		Patch v1.1 doesn't help.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down v1.2.1

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Impossible to enable FSAA ingame, as this menu item is disabled.	-
		It seems to be the "developers' choice". Just force FSAA in drivers.
GeForce4 MX 440	44.65	The game drops to another dimension after FSAA is forced :-) Note that FSAA is absent on the screenshots to the right. Besides, if you load a previously saved game, you get a BSOD.
		This occurs only in unofficial Detonator 44.65 beta only. Other drivers do not produce this bug.
GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800 GeForceFX 5900	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Messed up lighting of player's weapon that doesn't correspond to the environment and flicks on some levels.
		None solutions so far (Radeon 9800 Pro screenshots are to the right).
Radeon 9000 Pro Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	Impossible to enable FSAA ingame, as the menu item is diesabled. It seems the developers enabled FSAA only for cards they tested personally. I.e. GF4Ti and GFFX.	-
		AA is easily forced in drivers and works perfectly.

Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind v1.6
(with Tribunal and Bloodmoon)

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03	Impossible to force FSAA in the drivers.	-
		Install other drivers like 44.65, 44.71, 44.90 or 45.23.
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	Messed up water shader (see screenshots).
		None solutions so far. Each graphics card actually draws this long-suffering shader in its own way :-) But if the error isn't so noticeable on some cards, it immediately draws the attention on R9000Pro. (R9800Pro screenshots to the right).

Enclave

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	Shader problems. The bug occasionally disappears to appear again next run. The source of it is unknown.
		Even when this doesn't occur, it seems the water shader is "overpixelated". Hard to say whose fault it is...

Enter The Matrix v1.52

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Main characters are dressed strangely. Are these stains a bug or a feature I can't say.
		None solutions so far. Radeon 9700 Pro screenshots are to the right.
GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03	The image "stereorizes" in the Focus mode at FSAA enabled in the launcher or forced in the drivers.
		Bug fixed in 44.65, 44.71, 44.90 and 45.23 drivers.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City v1.0

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03	In some time the game turns into a mess of triangles.
		Install patch GTAVC v1.1. Or install 44.65+ drivers where this bug seems to be fixed.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 v242

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	No fog on tracks.
		None solutions so far. GF4Ti4600 screenshots are to the right.
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	When forced, FSAA 4x results in environment mapping "flickering". There's nothing of this at 2x.
		None solutions so far.
Radeon 9000 Pro Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	Impossible to enable anisotropy ingame. Seems to be a feature, as GeForce 4MX, Ti4600, FX5600 do not have this problem.	-
		Force it in the drivers.

Neverwinter Nights w/Shadows of Undrentide v1.31

An FSAA ingame "feature": the slider is designed for NVIDIA offering the maximum of "Nice 4 Sample Antialiasing". On GeForce 3+ this means FSAA 4x 9 tap. As there's no such FSAA mode on Radeon 9500+, FSAA just disables. "4 Sample Antialiasing" setting provides usual 4x FSAA on Radeon.

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Impossible to enable FSAA ingame.	-
		Force it in the drivers.
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	Impossible to enable FSAA ingame.	-
		Force it in the drivers.
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.6	Catalyst 3.6 produces awful banding on the background fog.
		Roll back to 3.5 drivers.
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5	Some wall flicker.
		Install Catalyst 3.6.

No One Lives Forever 2:
A Spy in a H.A.R.M.'s Way v1.3

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	Some triangles partially off-screen lack textures, but lightmap.
		None solutions so far.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter v1.07

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 Ti4600	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	The oldest bug of Z buffer initialization: by default SSTSE asks for 32-bit Z-Buffer and sets the minimum of 16-bit. Meanwhile the game runs in 32-bit color mode.
		Fixed manually. In the console type: gap_iDepthBits=24; ApplyVideoMode()

Silent Hill 2

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800 GeForceFX 5900	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Banding naturally squares the fog. As there's much fog, it becomes annoying very fast.
		None solutions so far. Radeon 9600 Pro screenshots are to the right.
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	About the same, as GeForce produces, but even worse.
		None solutions so far. Radeon 9600 Pro screenshots are to the right.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell v1.2b

You should remember that for NVIDIA GF3+ the game utilizes shadow mapping for increased shadow details. On GF4 MX and all RADEON cards it utilizes projected textures of considerably lower resolution. The difference is clearly seen on screenshots. But what's most interesting, SC's shadow mapping causes GF3+ cards to increase ingame "light amount". On the same screenshots you can see the different light meter values.

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 MX 440	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Strange grids in places where light rays should vanish. Best seen in dynamics.
		None solutions so far. GeForce4 Ti4600 screenshots are to the right.
GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	FSAA can't be forced. According to NVIDIA, this what game developers asked for to avoid rendering errors (see below about Radeon).	-
		Not a bug, but a feature. This feature can be bypassed by renaming SplinterCell.exe into, say, SplinterCel.exe. This enabled FSAA, but might also produce bugs similar to those observed on Radeons. For the sake of justice we must say we haven't seen any errors (just the deepest fps drop).
GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03	Messed up water shader in the bulk-oil platform.
		Bug fixed in 44.65+ drivers.
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5 3.6	FSAA forcing problems again.
		Just don't force it :)
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	Forced FSAA causes overbrighting when enabling/disabling nightvision.
		Just don't force AA.

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness v49

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForce4 Ti4600	45.23	Enabling Haze produces only coloured smoke.
		The only solution so far is to disable Haze in the launcher.
GeForce4 Ti4600	45.23	Some Louvre guards lack textures.
		No sources of this have been found so far.
GeForce4 Ti4600	45.23	nVidia Shadows turn into strange grids in some minutes.
		No sources of this have been found so far.
GeForceFX 5900	45.23	DOF (Depth-of-Field) operation: the entire frame or its parts are dithered instead of the back.
		Either NVIDIA drivers, or game bug. So far the solution is to disable DOF. GeForceFX 5800 screenshot is to the right.
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5 3.6	TR:TAoD v42 lacks textures on partially offscreen triangles nearly perpendicular to the screen plane.
		Fixed in Patch v49.

Unreal Tournament 2003 v2225

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	High-level anisotropy is disabled on some textures.
		UT2003-specific aniso optimizations. None solutions so far. GeForce4 Ti4600 screenshot is to the right.

"IL2 Shturmovik: Forgotten Battles" v1.1b

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
Radeon 9000 Pro	3.5	Water shaders lock the system up.	-
		Update drivers to 3.6, 3.7 or roll back to 3.4. Disable water shaders by reducing landscape detalization.
Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.5	Game locks up at 100% environment load.	-
		Update drivers to 3.6, 3.7 or roll back to 3.4.
Radeon 9000 Pro Radeon 9600 Pro Radeon 9700 Pro Radeon 9800 Pro	3.4 3.6 3.7	Water shaders occasionally turn acid green. These used to turn sky blue in 1.0r version. Isn't it the progress? :-)
		Disable water shaders by reducing landscape detalization.

"Pirates of the Caribbean"

Graphics card	Drivers	Bug description and solutions	Screenshots
GeForceFX 5600 Ultra GeForceFX 5800 GeForceFX 5900	44.03 44.65 44.71 44.90 45.23	Messed up water shader.
		None solutions so far. GeForce4 Ti4600 screenshots are to the right. A Patch v1.01 was released late in August to fix the GeForce FX fog bug. Pity, but our version of the game refused to run with it. Maybe you'll be luckier.

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