What is your Vid Card how much Memory and what Monitor? (Are you using a TV? Because when I go out to my 36" TV thru the SVGA I am stuck at 640x 480, But I can go all the way to 1600 x 1200 (128 MB DDR nVida card)
"Because if you have a 128MB graphics card stuck into the AGP slot of a super system, you can enjoy the various pieces of genuine small art the game tosses at you. The game is aware of the resources it has at its disposal and uses them accordingly, so on different systems you'll have different options regarding shadow levels, texture quality, screen resolution and stuff like that. And you just HAVE to see how the moon casts dynamic shadows of leaves dancing in the wind on your back, damn! " Quote from a review of the Game. So it could be the driver for your card, Are you using the Patch 1.2?
Date 16-4-2003
Filename SCUS_CA_Patch_1.2.exe.exe (download now!)
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Summary Splinter Cell Patch 1.2 - US Version
Description
Information URL: http://www.splintercell.com/us/patch.php
Patch 1.2 Release Notes
General Fixes/Changes:
The 3D Sound button in the Sound config area is now properly activating/deactivating 3d hardware sound acceleration/positioning.
In Shadow Projector mode, the shadow filter design was changed to LOW/MEDIUM = 2x2, HIGH = 3x2, VERY HIGH = 3x3 depending on the value of Effects Quality in the video settings menu.
Holding or Pushing CTRL while going back to the main menu no longer bring you back to a cube map with a default texture.
Laser micro success/failure computation fix.
Benchmark mode (see instructions in readme file).
No more guard/unguard, check/uncheck to speed up performance.
No more Shadow Details in Shadow Buffer mode (that setting was useless on GF3/GF4Ti/FX cards).
No more bugs submitted to EPIC.
800x600 is now supported by 32 MB video cards.
GeForce 256, Radeon 7500 cards and Xabre 200/400/600 cards (with 3.11 drivers) are now officially supported.
Night vision fix for several graphic cards.
Video memory optimization.
Alternates This file is downloadable from Telstra GameArena:
here
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/download/html/5798
PATCH 1.2