I've been out of the CFS 2 & 3 for years

[danimalhanke]

I'm running an Asus laptop FX517ZR with a NVidia 3070 card running Win 11. Here's my problem, CFS2 doesn't recognize hardware acceleration and I only have the low rez pix/images/skins etc. Does anyone know how to get CFS2 to display the better graphics? I've been through so many posts so far and none seem to work. Thanks in advance.

 

[Browncoat]

Welcome back!

These threads may help you is the lack of hardware acceleration due to good ‘ol’ CFS2 not recognizing newer tech:

https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohfor...FS2-installed-but-only-runs-with-low-graphics

https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/95345-Windows-10-snafu-content-thread

 

[Browncoat]

Also give this a shot:

crack open the CFS2.cfg file in note pad. Scroll till you see [DISPLAY] and your video card and resolution settings. Immediately below it, add copy/pasta this text in:

Dither=0
Filter=1
Trilinear=1
Mipmap=1
Antialias=1
HWTnL=1
Disable=0

Make sure that Disable=0 and not 1.

 

[danimalhanke]

I appreciate the suggestion, but............

Like I said in my original post I've already tried many things including what you suggested. I'm hoping you might know some additional info which I might try. Please send me anything you may know of which may help.
Thank you,
Danimalhanke

 

[UncleTgt]

SOH member Allen created an install guide that captures the salient points


https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=49&id=29394

Key Issues:

Create a new separate CFS2 folder & install there, don't use the default install directory.

Make sure you have administrator privileges, otherwise the OS will fight every change you try to make (including program compatibility).

 

[danimalhanke]

I finally fixed CFS2 to work on my Win11 machine

Thanks to everyone who helped solved this.
Here's what I did: I went to my old install folders (I have several) and added ddraw.dll from DDrawCompat-v0.4.0 and everything is good again. So simple, yet kinda frustrating too.
Thanks again.

 

[Allen]

As a DDrawCompat user I have seen some textures saved with Microsoft's imagetool not being displayed right with but can be fixed by opening the texture with DXTbmp.exe and saving it.