You can play the game without dgVoodoo in shadow projector mode but it doesn't look as good. dgVoodoo allows you to emulate a GeForce 4 card and play with shadow buffers again. There's no lighting bugs in this game unless you might've forced on shadow buffer mode by accident and don't have dgVoodoo installed properly.

You can send screenshots so I understand what you're talking about if it's something different.

So, I was under the impression that some of this stuff would fix the absence of light in certain areas, but it didn't. Is that something that this is supposed to take care of or is that something different entirely?

The CIA HQ could be a lighting bug from dgVoodoo2, not sure if it's always been the case or a regression, I'd have to check it out sometime. Probably would want to do comparisons between the Xbox version to see the intended effect.

The sound bug might've just been part of the game. Loading from a save game can affect audio such as skipping active dialogue, but not sure about pausing.

Thanks for this! I'm on the third to last level now, the only visual issue I noticed so far is the projection in the presentation room on the CIA Agency level, only a circular portion of the center of the projection is showing up correctly instead of the whole thing.

Also another issue I noticed is music and some looping sfx stopping whenever you open the pause menu or quicksave, is there any fix for that?

Ah, ok. Thanks anyways. 👍🏻

I'm not aware of any ways to force max LOD at further distances, not sure if its possible for these games

Hey dude. I've used your guides for the various SC games with great success. Thanks for your work. I have just one question. Is there a way to improve draw distance in SC 1? For example, in the intro scene, before the training mission, Lambert approaches the room and punches in the door code. As he approaches his head morphs from a low polly mess to his normal, in-game appearance. Can that be fixed, or is it hard-coded? This happens with many characters.

After reinstalling the game and following these instructions, it still doesn't work for me.

-There are no in-game graphics options that go higher than medium. Even when going into the ini and trying to force it.
-The graphics are extremely glitchy: Textures turn or remain pitch black when facing certain directions. Lighting on the game characters is incorrect, with overly bright weird pixelated-looking highlights. The shadows themselves seem to be (mostly) correct and volumetric lighting works though.

It seems forcing GF2 mode is the only way that works, but setting it to that disables buffer shading and volumetric lighting. No guides have worked for me so far. I guess I have to settle for projector shadows and no volumetric light unless someone can help me out.

Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3227U CPU @ 1.90GHz 1.90 GHz
Installed RAM: 6GB
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Windows 10

Question tho. I max all the in game options after letting Steam restore the default .ini files but the sunrays don't look as good as the last image in the link I sent. Anything fix?

Thx for swift reply. After undoing the changes to the files, made sure graphics were maxed out and yeah it really didnt improve anything, I just probably had something lowered cause before it looked like how it did on Xbox.