What settings do people use on their NVidia Video Card?

[Der Alte Fritz]

Tried this on the tech forum but got nothing.

Since my NVIDIA card went phuptt, I have now got a new 7600 GT NVIDIA card.

What are the best settings to use on this sort of card?

[Gurra]

Hi there,

do you mean the driver settings? Clamp, buffering and stuff and so on? In that case, try this

Hi Colonel J Lee. To get rid of 'jaggies' in particular you'll need to change some of the 'antialiasing' settings from 'Application Controlled' (the default) to some setting such as 2X, 4X, etc. Generally the higher the setting (sampling, in this case), the better the images/edges can potentially look. The 'Application Controlled' setting is useful for other games that can control this setting, but in CMBB and CMAK this just means that antialiasing is turned off. Higher settings will have a larger effect on the speed of the display (ie. - slowing down the performance with higher sampling settings).

(..)Some of the anisotropic filtering settings and 'mipmap' settings may help with textures a little in CM. For your reference CMBB and CMAK are DirectX games, so any setting geared towards OpenGL will have no effect on them.

Another factor for jaggies is the resolution that you run the game at. Higher resolutions will somewhat minimize some of the 'jaggies', though they'll still be present.

With the Nvidia Control Panel you can also make 'game profiles' of the 3D settings so that those settings only apply to particular games. You will probably have to create new ones for CMBB and CMAK (they won't be in the list of profiles that have already been created by Nvidia).

Experimentation may be what is required here. Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering will slow down your display. So finding the right balance between performance and appearance will take experimentation. You may find that some features don't have the benefits for their performance costs. The GeForce 8400GS is a little more capable than the 7600GT (DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support), but performance-wise it may only be a bit faster, if that. There's a bit of a range in terms of the performance of these cards since manufacturers have clocked the chips and memory at various speeds, all under the moniker of '8400GS'.(...)

Here is a link as well http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_6.html

So you got yourself a card in the 7XXX family. How is antialising working? Better than the 8800?

[Der Alte Fritz]

Well I tried starting up the various settings on my 8800 for it only to develop a serious twitch. Run anything with graphics and it 'crashed' the whole computer with a message about cpu over-heating. Finally tamed it by turning off all the features, but still no convinced it is entirely safe. 7XXX cards are now pretty cheap so picked up one on Amazon for £35 an installed it instead of the 8800 to see what the difference is but have not had time to experiment yet.

Was disappointed to see that I still had the 'twinkling trees' effect - when you fly over them , they seem to sparkle. Was using Strontium Dogs Hi-res trees, so collected together all the tree mods, sorted them out and found some good hi-res ones that do not twinkle. Pat had some and Nisseuh has SD trees but has toned them down a couple of notches which seemed to reduce the shine a lot.

So will have a go with the settings on Monday or Tuesday.