/vr/ - Retro Games

I use software when the hardware renderer doesn't let me disable texture filtering, or if it can't scale textures properly as was the case with Half-life until a couple years ago. Sometimes games have visual effects unique to software mode that I'll prefer the look of, like Quake's water warping.

So Valve finally fixed that texture scaling problem in OpenGL

>>4257104
Yes. All versions of vanilla HL1 have issues in any video rendering mode other than software, though- all the textures get blurry as fuck because the game is forcibly stretching them to a power-of-2 resolution. This is really obvious with filtering disabled so you can see the lower quality.

Seems like a weird bug? Backstory: the exact same thing happens in Quake. Software mode doesn't care about texture size, but GLQuake resizes everything to power-of-2: not a huge deal because most of Quake's textures are already 64x or 128x, plus filtering is enabled by default, but Valve used a lot less standard-sized textures when making Half-Life and GoldSrc is directly based on the Quake 1 engine so the same bugs crop up.

>>4228461
sure