Nvidia Control Panel 3D Settings?

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KENDAWG2000

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Hello,
I was looking around on my PC and decided to take a further look into the NVIDIA Control Panel. I recently bought a MSI 970 (With the help from the forums :D) and I was hearing from friends some mixed things about the control panel.

To start,
What are the 3D settings used for?
Are they for when you start a game it will choose the best present for you?
I heard that the settings in here work on top of the ingame settings, is that true?
Would that mean that I am applying double the AA?
Should I simply turn off of this off and let the game handle itself?
*Current settings Below*

Thanks
-Ken

*Current settings*
Ambient Occlusion - OFF
Anisotropic Filtering - App Controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA - OFF
Antialiasing - Gamma Correction - OFF
Antialiasing - Mode - App Controlled
Antialiasing Transparency - OFF
CUDA - GPU's - ALL
DSR - Factors - OFF
Max Pre-rendered frames - USE App Settings
Multi-Frame AA (MFAA) - OFF
Multidisplay Acceleration - Multiple Display performance mode
Power management Mode- Adaptive
Shader Cache - On
Texture Filtering Anistropic Sameple - OFF
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow
Texture Filtering - Quality - Quality
Texture Filtering - Trilinear optimization - ON
Threaded Optimization - Auto
3x Buffering - OFF
Vertical Sync - OFF
Virtual Reality Pre-rendered frames - 1
 
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By those settings, which appear to be default, it isn't going to do anything but what your 3D applications tell it to do.

Now the Nvidia experience settings will override games that you tell it to, but first you have to let it scan your drive for known games.

No such thing as double AA, whatever value and type it is set to is what it will do.
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By those settings, which appear to be default, it isn't going to do anything but what your 3D applications tell it to do.

Now the Nvidia experience settings will override games that you tell it to, but first you have to let it scan your drive for known games.

No such thing as double AA, whatever value and type it is set to is what it will do.
 
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So will this apply another video settings over the ones already in game? So will like double Anistrophic Filtering?
Or does this just simply take the value given and change my ingame setting to that value?
Should I just turn some of these off or just keep it?
 
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Your questions haven't really changed, so not quite sure where to go from here.

Antialiasing - Mode - App Controlled
Anisotropic Filtering - App Controlled
Max Pre-rendered frames - USE App Settings

This is stating that these settings will be set by the running 3D application. So whatever settings are there will be used. Anti-aliasing in particular has no concept of doubling. You can set the filtering level and type, and that is it. If you have one the control panel set to 4x and the application set to 8x, then it will run at a 8x. Conversely if the Control panel setting is at 8x and the application is set to 4x, it will run at 4x. Assuming the settings remain as they are. You'll notice most of the other settings are turned to off.

You can change the settings however you want. If you want an explanation for each I would start reading the included manual found in the help menu.


 
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Thanks for the help. Yeah just realized I repeated my own question :p . Thanks again!
 
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