transloosent shadow

[Sunminchy]

Eny one here haveing no transloosen shadow in links 2003?

[pmgolf]

I'm pretty sure it has to do with the type of video card you have. With some of them, you can only get an opaque shadow - others allow translucent shadows. Somebody who remembers it please pitch in here!

Pete

[gator]

The only time I have been able to have translucent golfer shadows was when I had a Nvidia graphics card.

I currently have an AMD Radeon R7 graphics card and can only get opaque golfer shadows.

Other's mileage may vary.

[GoBucks]

Based on years of discussion at LSPN.net, Nvidia is the only card capable of translucent shadows. These discussions go back to 2006, and the operating system has no bearing.

[Adelade]

My NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M cant do transluscent shadows either. I wonder if its because its a mobile (laptop) one, possibly.

[pmgolf]

The only time I have been able to have translucent golfer shadows was when I had a Nvidia graphics card.

I currently have an AMD Radeon R7 graphics card and can only get opaque golfer shadows.

Other's mileage may vary.

Yes, that's what I remember, Gator. Thanks! I have a nVidia video card and I get translucent shadows. I see that there are some nVidia cards that don't, though. Best thing is to find one that looks right for your system, and then post the card number/name to see if anyone knows.

Pete

[Ian Wells]

I recently had to replace my laptop and purchased a Lenovo with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, and I finally have translucent shadows. (Operating system windows 10)
Ian

[Danny D]

When Grandpa Bruce and I were playing together, we both had similar desktop systems with high-end ASUS motherboards. However, he had a Radeon Video card and could only get the black shadow. I was using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and could get both black and translucent shadows. After a few months he finally bought the same model NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 video card that I had, and that allowed him to get both shadows. It is most definitely the video card that allows the translucent shadow in the older model desktop systems.

Dan

[pmgolf]

nVidia GeForce GTX1050 Ti 4 GB video card on my desktop. Plenty of power for Links, good price, and translucent shadows, too!

Pete

[gator]

My NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M cant do transluscent shadows either. I wonder if its because its a mobile (laptop) one, possibly.

@Adelade,

Just curious if your laptop has more than one graphics card? My current laptop has the aforementioned AMD Radeon R7 on the motherboard and a separate AMD Radeon R8 M445DX card. When Links boots up it reports that it is using the graphics adapter mounted on the motherboard (R7) which I believe is typical for Links. If Links is reporting something other than your Nvidia card, you may have to resort to the dgv@@d@@ wrapper to get Links to recognize/use your Nvidia card. If Links is reporting your Nvidia card, not sure why you can't get translucent shadows.