How to Optimize you G-Card??

[Panzer Leader]

My display is kind of sparkly, flashy looking, and if I put it on view 3 and view-lock as a tank drives (for example), the trees, buildings (roofs especially) and all the rest of the display sparkle and shiver and make it hard to watch. Is there a way to make it, oh I don't know, more subtle, or smooth or something?

Card is a Geforce 4 (420) w/64mb and I have T-Bird 1400 w/ WinMe. 256mb DDR ram.

Would Antstropic filtering help? What does it do?

Would Anti-aliasing help? What does it do?

[Mr. Die Easy]

Dear Panzer Leader,

Anisotropic filtering will elminate the sparkling effect. Once you try it in CM, you will never play without it.

I use RivaTuner to enable AF.

Best regards

Mr. Die Easy

[Prinz Eugen]

Originally posted by Panzer Leader:

...and all the rest of the display sparkle and shiver and make it hard to watch.

Would Anti-aliasing help? What does it do?

Anti-aliasing is the key here. I know exactly what you're going experiencing, for I had the same thing with my system. CM wasn't exactly pretty to look at, and I wondered upon some screens that I saw where the graphics were incredibly smooth and crisp. At first I thought it was to do with my graphics card, which used to be a 16 Mb Riva TNT. Later on I acquired a GF 2 with 32 Mbs, but that didn't do any good.

I went and tried using anti-aliasing once. :eek:

You should give it a go, too. It's easy and doesn't require any additional programs á la RivaTuner.