Results tagged “incubation” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

THE perils of a game being made with cutting-edge technology was brought home to me recently when I dusted off an old favourite for a blast.

As a bit of a strat fan I loaded up turn based shooter Incubation - similar in many ways to the classic X-Com series.

At the time it was pretty cutting edge, and utilised a facility only available to people who had bought the latest graphics card.

Those who have gamed on the PC for some time might remember 3dfx - and Incubation had a special enhanced graphics mode which would take advantage of the new hardware.

Sadly my more modern ATI Radeon 3870 512mb card was deemed by the game to be unable to cope in the full 3dfx mode.

It would, however, work fine in the basic graphics mode, although it keeps asking me to load directx 5.0...

How to get it working in full 3d mode? Answers on a postcard to ben.hurst@birminghammail.net please!