Gaming Settings for Graphics Cards

Well, we all know that certain graphics cards do different things better. For instance, one card can beat another with no AA, but the other card makes a come-back with 16x AA. That's exactly why i made this thread. I thought it would be useful to mention things to set for the game to get the best performance and post info about our cards. I'll go first.



nVidia GeForce 9400GT ~~~EVGA 1gb vram
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-low stream processors (16) avoid any sort of lighting and shadows.
-doesnt do anti aliasing well, avoid going over 2/4 times
-works well with high polygon count and high quality textures due to decently fast core clock
-try not to surpass resolutions of 1280x1024 for new games where you crank up the things above


also 1 quick question, what are certain things we need to avoid if u have slow vRam?

Your right MAC. ( damn he is alwais ! )

I just upgraded to a GTX285 ( was using SLI 9800GTX+ but GTA4 dont support SLI )to be able to play GTA4 on HIGH texture and more View distance. I didnt tryed my other games yet, i received the card yesterday ... but GTA4 is WOW awesome now !

Ill try other games soon, I have a P5Q FSB1600 incoming in order to OC a lil further my E6850.

Ill leave you some feedback about my performance VS my SLI. COD4 and WAW was awesome with the SLI.

uncfan, you have a good idea but this thread will be seen by the wrong audience, I believe. You're aiming at the gaming noob, while the experienced PC gamers will be the majority of those reading the thread. Even if you got it all right and they made a sticky out of it, the noobs won't read the stickys.

Good idea though.

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GTX295.
Turn all the settings up to max, you sure as heck paid to do so.

True that.