Help on configuring settings on an 8800 GTS (Nvidia Panel)

Dark_Placebo

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in the nvidia control panel..... in the manage settings, where there are AA configuration... lighting.. etc... etc... anti blah blah....

what's the MAX settings ? coz some category is quite confusing....

and also...

on the 3d settings, where in theres a choice between performance and quality... the PREVIEW window doesnt show anything at all. Can anyone kindly help me out ?? thanks alot !
 

Armanox

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Can it be that u use vista? I had the same problem, its a drive issue, but since its only a control panel dont bother.

Select advanced view and u get all the settings u need. ;)
 

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i use MCE..... well... that solved the problem, i can see the preview now...

but what i want to know is the lighting effects and such... you know.. the AA... etc... buffering.. whatever that is ... thx !!
 

mannwhite

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my settings are:

Anisotropic : App-controlled
AA Gamma : On
AA mode : Enhance Application setting
AA Setting : 8x
AA Transparency : Multisampling
Conformant Texture Clamp : Hardware
Error reporting : off
Extension limit : off
force mipmaps : none
Texture filtering - aniso sample optimization : on
Negative LOD bios : Enable
Texture filtereing quality : Quality
Texture filtering - trilinear optimization : On
Threaded optimization : On
Triple buffering : On
Vertical sync : Use 3d app setting

Hope this helps. My philosophy is I try to set as much as I can ingame, hence the aniso and vsync setting. However, after some research I found out that nvidia recommend the enhance app setting for antialiasing, it uses CSAA which seems faster and better. Don't hesitate to post any comments if you have any.