Forcing SSE sparkles/motion blur

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Forcing SSE sparkles/motion blur

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Is there a way to force the sparkles and motion blur on? I can't see the SSE special effects even though my FX-57 supports SSE.
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Open main.exe in a hex editor, find the string \"GenuineIntel\", replace it with \"AuthenticAMD\". Another instance of \"AuthenticAMD\" is right before it, change it so that it is in any way unequal (not sure if this is necessary, better safe than sorry).
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Post by Vertigo Zer0 »

That worked! Thanks pATCheS, you rock!
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Post by Mobius »

Motion blur is a command line switch - and it is only useful when your graphics card is utterly useless. Let's say, on a RIVA TNT2 or some such useless sack of ★■◆● like that. You should definitely have motionblur disabled for any modern card.
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once again mobius comes in :roll:
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Mobius wrote:Motion blur is a command line switch - and it is only useful when your graphics card is utterly useless. Let's say, on a RIVA TNT2 or some such useless sack of ***** like that. You should definitely have motionblur disabled for any modern card.
Why? Please explain.

(BTW, I find motionblur and those sparkles utterly annoying)
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-nomotionblur -nopentium3 -nosparkles

I seem to have a better workout dodging your stupidity than attempting to grasp the weight of your intelligence.
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Post by pATCheS »

Motion blur is only done on robots, and looks like crap. Also, it cannot be forced on, only off (via -nomotionblur). I'd turn it off anyway, especially on a TNT2 because I would want to save every last possible bit of fillrate. :P

I rather like the sparkles though, especially in CTF because the flag gives them off, so it makes it more obvious to yourself whether you have it (seeing sparkles in the rear view or in the main view when going backward is a dead giveaway :P). Also kinda makes other players stand out a little more, since aliasing pixels are hard to miss and the normal flag effect doesn't show up too well.
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