markshot Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 Greetings, I had been playing CMBO on a Matrox G400 MAX under Win98 SE. I have just switched to a Geforce4 Ti 4600 under WinXP Pro. I noticed the my CMBO graphics appear to be sparkling a bit when I rotate the scene. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what are the best GF4 options to set for playing CMBO. Thanks! [ August 03, 2002, 04:18 PM: Message edited by: markshot ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 Hi markshot, With the GeForce tweak program RivaTuner, you can change the anisotropic filtering settings for Direct3D. This will reduce the "sparkling" a lot without any significant frame rate loss. Mr. Die Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 Mein Gott, a fellow EAW Airdale. S! Markshot. I've read Shoot To Kill, wonderful document. Increased my kill ratio and kept me alive on many an occasion. Good to meet up with you on the ground. (Which is better than seeing you in my six). JG11 Well yeah, I had the same effect with the trees. It's the mipmap detail I believe that is causing the sparkles, best image quality was just too sharp on a Ti4600. Raising the antialias to 4xS and lowering the mipmap a tad to "high" image quality seemed to offset each other nicely and got rid of the twinkling trees on my system using a PIII 733mhz Coppermine, Win98SE. Oh, by the way. Many say it ain't worth it, but if you have the CPU for it, I get an appreciable increase in video quality using a 32 bit desktop setting on 1024x768 with CM. [ August 03, 2002, 06:02 PM: Message edited by: Bruno Weiss ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THumpre Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Mr. Die Easy, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been battling with my new Geforce3 and 19inch ever since I got them. On my old setup the graphis were fine but on the new comp the "tree shimmy" was giving me fits. Downloaded RivaTuner and it looks great. Thanks again. Thumpre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 Er, where'd he go. Anyway, yes thanks Die Easy. The mipmap level did the trick for me, but I had previously used the Geforce Tweak Utility, (GTU), which gave me some errors on the Ti4600. Saw your post and went out and tried the RivaTuner. Very nice indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 THumpre and Bruno, Great to hear that the RivaTuner trick worked for you. Mr. Die Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markshot Posted August 4, 2002 Author Share Posted August 4, 2002 Well, I have not actually had a chance to try this app to tweak CMBO yet. (Busy getting everything else working on a new PC.) However, I have had a chance to play around with it, and it is very convenient. Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THumpre Posted August 4, 2002 Share Posted August 4, 2002 It has a very comprehensive set of controls and is very easy to use, the only thing I found hard was understanding some of the explanations of some of the controls, but may just be because I am a muffinhead....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 Is Riva Tuner compatible with Windows XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 Hi mates, RivaTuner is fully compatible with XP. On www.guru3d.com there is a support forum for RivaTuner, where you can search for more information about how to use the tool. Mr. Die Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markshot Posted August 10, 2002 Author Share Posted August 10, 2002 Die Easy, Thanks. RivaTuner proved to be an invaluable aid in configuring my games on this new PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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