List of games with Table Fog support
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[hide]Table fog effect summary
Fog is a special effect that is used to blend a scene into a predefined color to give the impression that "fog" is present in the scene. Fog is usually implemented as it appears in the physical world. The farther the objects are, the more they are obscured by fog. Objects that are close to the observer are clearer.
Table fog, also called pixel fog, is calculated independent of vertices. Ideally, fog is calculated on a pixel basis, but many device drivers emulate this feature in software with vertex fog values. It is called table fog because traditionally tables have been used to look up fog values. The RIVA 128, RIVA128ZX and the RIVA TNT all emulate table fog using vertex based fog. The GeForce 256 supports table fog in hardware.[1][2]
Graphics cards which support table fog
- 3dfx cards[3]
- NVIDIA cards[4]
- Matrox G4xx and G5xx cards[5][6][7]
- PowerVR cards[8]
- S3 Savage4 cards[9][10]
- ATI Rage XL cards[11]
- ATI Rage 128 Pro cards[12]
Graphics cards which don't support table tog
- ATI Radeon cards[13]
- ATI Rage Pro cards[14]
- S3 UniChrome Pro IGP[15]
- 3Dlabs Permedia 2[16]
- Matrox Millennium II [17]
Note: Under Windows 98, partial table fog support on ATI Radeon cards can be enabled via registry tweaks. Since Windows XP, full table fog support becomes available when Catalyst drivers version 7.11 or newer are used (screenshots). On more current Windows versions, table fog is still supported but in most cases, it is disabled due to driver bugs, and can be restored by using certain wrappers.
Games which use table fog
- 1nsane (2000)[18]
- Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now (1998)[19]
- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord (2000)[20]
- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord Special Edition (2003)[21]
- Combat Mission II: Barbarossa to Berlin (2002)[22]
- Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps (2003)[23]
- European Air War (1998)[24][25]
- Flight Unlimited II (1997)[26]
- Glover (1998)[27]
- Heavy Gear II (1999)[28]
- Messiah (2000)[29]
- Myth II: Soulblighter (1998)[30]
- Need for Speed II Special Edition (1997)[31]
- Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998)[32][33]
- Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)[34][35][36][37][38]
- Panzer Commander (1998)[39]
- Powerslide (1998)[40]
- Silent Hunter II (2001)[41]
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)[42]
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1997)[43]
- Thief II: The Metal Age (2000)[44]
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)[45]
- Xarlor - Infinite Expanse (2000)[46]
Note: This list is incomplete. It merely shows the currently known games for which table fog use has been confirmed by testing. These games show visual differences on graphics cards that don't support table fog.
Related links
- Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures - forum discussion with screenshots
- List of games with 8-bit paletted texture support
- List of games with EMBM support
References
- Jump up ↑ Rogers, D. (January 11, 2000), NVIDIA Corporation, Implementing Fog in Direct3D, (PDF)
- Jump up ↑ White, S. et al. (January 6, 2021), Microsoft Corporation, Pixel Fog (Direct3D 9), (link)
- Jump up ↑ 3DFX Voodoo 3 table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Matrox G400 table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Matrox MGA-G400 Specification (datasheet)
- Jump up ↑ Matrox G550 Chip Specifications (datasheet)
- Jump up ↑ Kyro table fog support (datasheet)
- Jump up ↑ S3 Savage4 table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Savage4 Graphics/Video Accelerator Family Hardware Reference (datasheet)
- Jump up ↑ ATi Rage XL appears to have partial, inaccurate table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ ATi Rage 128 Pro appears to have partial, inaccurate table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ ATI Radeon 9000 Pro missing table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ ATI Rage Pro missing table fog support (report)
- Jump up ↑ S3 UniChrome Pro IGP missing table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Permedia 2 missing table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Matrox Millennium II missing table fog support (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ 1nsane Ireland Morning Practice Free Roam (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Carmageddon II uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
- Jump up ↑ Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord Special Edition - Crossroads in the Fog scenario (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
- Jump up ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
- Jump up ↑ European Air War model viewer (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ European Air War in-game view (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Flight Unlimited II (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Glover (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Heavy Gear II - Historical Missions: Baja City (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Messiah - Old Town (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Myth II: Soulblighter - Mission #2 (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed II Special Edition uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed III uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ It is possible to restore fog rendering in NFS3 on non-Voodoo cards using this approach (mini guide)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes (retail game) (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes Demo (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes gameplay footage (link)
- Jump up ↑ It is possible to restore fog rendering in NFS4 on Radeon cards using this approach (mini guide)
- Jump up ↑ Panzer Commander uses table fog (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Powerslide uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Silent Hunter II configuration utility and in-game graphics options (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Mission 1: Trade Federation Battleship (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Shadows of the Empire Mission 2: Escape from Echo base (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Thief II Mission 11: Precious Cargo (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - Mission 14: Majestic Gold (screenshot)
- Jump up ↑ Xarlor - Infinite Expanse (screenshot)
