Are the benches in Office shiny?

[UnmarkedOne]

Strangest poll ever, right? The poll, however, is more for your info than mine.

I was running CS:S in DX8.1 mode and noticed that almost ALL of the textures are shiny. Earlier threads were filled with people complaining about this, but we later found out it was a bug. If you run CS:S in DX9.0 mode, you'll only see a few shiny textures in each level, and it looks much, much more realistic.

Point of the thread? Play the Office level for a second, and if you notice that the benches outside are shiny, you're running in 8.1 mode (even if it says otherwise in the options menu) and not seeing the shiny textures properly. No worries though, I'm confident that a patch will address this at a later time. The benches SHOULD be a solid, flat color and have no shine to them whatsoever in DX9.0.

If anyone sees too many shiny textures, or shines that are unrealistic or on the wrong textures, please post here and let me know about the bench thing and whether you think you're running in DX9.0 mode. Thanks for the help.

-UnmarkedOne

 

[Mr. Redundant]

nope, they are not.
also, the sheen on the walls (white) and the wood below them, have almost non-existent shinyness on my 9800pro (dx9)

however on my second computer (fx5200 -dx8) the shine is immensely noticeable.

also Unmarked, I wanted to let you know I have appreciated your input as of late.