Simple question about NVIDIA "Manage 3D Settings".

sonic123 · Jun 13, 2013

Hello, I'm recently installed in my system two GTX 780 on SLI. My former card was a GTX 580. I have never ever cared about the NVIDIA Control Panel nor the "Manage 3D Settings" so I guess I have always had them on factory default.

Yesterday, with my new system, I took the time to see the "Manage 3D Settings" and now I have more questions than ever but basically there's just one general question: I see in that "Manage 3D Settings" panel options like: Triple Buffering, Anisotropic Filtering , Antialiasing, FXAA and other with options like on/off - enable/disabled. In my ignorance I said: WTF! Aren't all these options the ones you choose in EACH specific game you play??
Does that mean that if I choose to DISABLE or TURN OFF in the general Nvidia "Manage 3D Settings" panels options like Antialiasing or Triple Buffering, whenever I need to use those options in a specific game, even though I choose those on that game, my PC won't use them because I made a general disabled of those options in said "Manage 3D Settings" panel?

Life was so simple by just deciding when you launch any game what settings were you goint to choose in that particular game!

Would really appreciate your help in this matter along with any useful tips you could provide for my SLI setting.

Thank you very very much!!

06yfz450ridr · Jun 13, 2013

most of those settings are application controller or globally controlled based on what you choose. changing those settings will depend on your system and what games you play. like bf3 to get it to play nice with sli i had to do either change pre rendered frames to 2 power profile to max performance, single display performance mode etc heres a good article on some stuff
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=1776353&mpage=1#1776353

most things you just have to play around with or research for each game if you are experiencing any problems

sonic123 · Jun 13, 2013

Thank you very much for the great article link! I would strictly use the expert advise given there.
It has so much sense to keep all options as "application enabled" so I can specifically choose in each game.
What I wonder is why the expert don't suggestion turning on features like antialiasing transparency, ambient oclusion or fxaa.
What harm would it make to have them as available options if I decided to?
In my "ignorant" world I would turn ON everyone and each option just to have them available whenever I need them in any particular game.

17seconds · Jun 13, 2013

With a high-end system like yours, it does make sense to push your Global Settings a little more than defaults so that they get applied to all games and non-gaming situations where appropriate. I usually set most settings globally pretty high, then fine-tune in the Program Settings tab for each individual game.

Some settings to change from default are:
- Ambient Occlusion: Quality
- FXAA: Off (I want to have this On, but I found it messes with Windows 8 Metro Start Screen fonts)
- Antialiasing-Gamma correction: On
- Antialiasing Transparency: 2x Supersample (this one is often tweaked in the Program Settings tab)
- Texture Filtering Quality: High Quality (this will gray out several other settings)

For the Program Settings then, this is where you tweak from those global settings which should work well and offer better than default image quality in just about every situation. If you have any questions about specific games, the best is to tweak then test, tweak then test.

Of course, if you wanted to try it, Geforce Experience is supposed to tweak your settings automatically. Sometimes, it's not ideal, but it might be worth checking out.

The Geforce.com site is very helpful for downloads and game specific tweak guides:
http://www.geforce.com/

Here is a tweak guide for the Nvidia Control Panel by the Nvidia engineer who created much of the control panel settings:
http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_1.html

sonic123 · Jun 13, 2013

17seconds :

With a high-end system like yours, it does make sense to push your Global Settings a little more than defaults so that they get applied to all games and non-gaming situations where appropriate. I usually set most settings globally pretty high, then fine-tune in the Program Settings tab for each individual game.

Some settings to change from default are:
- Ambient Occlusion: Quality
- FXAA: Off (I want to have this On, but I found it messes with Windows 8 Metro Start Screen fonts)
- Antialiasing-Gamma correction: On
- Antialiasing Transparency: 2x Supersample (this one is often tweaked in the Program Settings tab)
- Texture Filtering Quality: High Quality (this will gray out several other settings)

For the Program Settings then, this is where you tweak from those global settings which should work well and offer better than default image quality in just about every situation. If you have any questions about specific games, the best is to tweak then test, tweak then test.

Of course, if you wanted to try it, Geforce Experience is supposed to tweak your settings automatically. Sometimes, it's not ideal, but it might be worth checking out.

The Geforce.com site is very helpful for downloads and game specific tweak guides:
http://www.geforce.com/

Here is a tweak guide for the Nvidia Control Panel by the Nvidia engineer who created much of the control panel settings:
http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_1.html

Thank you very much for all these tips! I'm going to follow them too. My system consists of a 4770K for CPU and 16GB ram.

17seconds · Jun 13, 2013

I forgot to mention the setting:
Multi-display/mixed GPU acceleration: Single display performance mode (this defaults to "Multiple display", which should only be used if you are using multiple monitors)

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