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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]
• Heavy Gear II (1999)^[27]
• Messiah (2000)^[28]
• Myth II: Soulblighter (1998)^[29]
• Need for Speed II Special Edition (1997)^[30]
• Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998)^[31]
• Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)^{[32][33][34][35]}
• Panzer Commander (1998)^[36]
• Powerslide (1998)^[37]
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)^[38]
• Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1997)^[39]
• Thief II: The Metal Age (2000)^[40]
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)^[41]
• Xarlor - Infinite Expanse (2000)^[42]

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.

Table fog support comparison (Thief II: The Metal Age)

Proper table fog support on a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000

Missing table fog support on an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

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

1. ↑ Rogers, D. (January 11, 2000), NVIDIA Corporation, Implementing Fog in Direct3D, (PDF)
2. ↑ White, S. et al. (January 6, 2021), Microsoft Corporation, Pixel Fog (Direct3D 9), (link)
3. ↑ 3DFX Voodoo 3 table fog support (screenshot)
4. ↑ NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 table fog support (screenshot)
5. ↑ Matrox G400 table fog support (screenshot)
6. ↑ Matrox MGA-G400 Specification (datasheet)
7. ↑ Matrox G550 Chip Specifications (datasheet)
8. ↑ Kyro table fog support (datasheet)
9. ↑ S3 Savage4 table fog support (screenshot)
10. ↑ Savage4 Graphics/Video Accelerator Family Hardware Reference (datasheet)
11. ↑ ATi Rage XL appears to have partial, inaccurate table fog support (screenshot)
12. ↑ ATi Rage 128 Pro appears to have partial, inaccurate table fog support (screenshot)
13. ↑ ATI Radeon 9000 Pro missing table fog support (screenshot)
14. ↑ ATI Rage Pro missing table fog support (report)
15. ↑ S3 UniChrome Pro IGP missing table fog support (screenshot)
16. ↑ Permedia 2 missing table fog support (screenshot)
17. ↑ Matrox Millennium II missing table fog support (screenshot)
18. ↑ 1nsane Ireland Morning Practice Free Roam (screenshot)
19. ↑ Carmageddon II uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
20. ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
21. ↑ Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord Special Edition - Crossroads in the Fog scenario (screenshot)
22. ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
23. ↑ Affects the retail release of the game. (link)
24. ↑ European Air War model viewer (screenshot)
25. ↑ European Air War in-game view (screenshot)
26. ↑ Flight Unlimited II (screenshot)
27. ↑ Heavy Gear II - Historical Missions: Baja City (screenshot)
28. ↑ Messiah - Old Town (screenshot)
29. ↑ Myth II: Soulblighter - Mission #2 (screenshot)
30. ↑ Need for Speed II Special Edition uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
31. ↑ Need for Speed III uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
32. ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes (retail game) (screenshot)
33. ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes Demo (screenshot)
34. ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes (screenshot)
35. ↑ Need for Speed: High Stakes gameplay footage (link)
36. ↑ Panzer Commander uses table fog (screenshot)
37. ↑ Powerslide uses table fog but only in Glide mode (screenshot)
38. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Mission 1: Trade Federation Battleship (screenshot)
39. ↑ Shadows of the Empire Mission 2: Escape from Echo base (screenshot)
40. ↑ Thief II Mission 11: Precious Cargo (screenshot)
41. ↑ Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - Mission 14: Majestic Gold (screenshot)
42. ↑ Xarlor - Infinite Expanse (screenshot)