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    *8600GT Prefered Control Pannel Settings*

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Xe12o, Feb 25, 2008.

  1. Xe12o

    Xe12o Notebook Geek

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    Hmm, couldn't find a particular answer that would have cleared this up. But I am curious what is everyone running in their Nvidia Control Pannel 3D management settings?

    Do you go for Frames? Settings
    Do you go for Quality? Settings

    Please post up! Need some help on what some of them mean and if they are useful for games such as:

    CS:S
    World in Conflict
    Command and Conquer 3
    Age of Empires III
    Gears of War
    Call of Duty: 4
     
    Xe12o, Feb 25, 2008
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  2. Awesome laptops

    Awesome laptops Notebook Evangelist

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    im just unlucky dont even have nvidia gfx so cant use them ati sucks s**t
     
    Awesome laptops, Feb 25, 2008
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  3. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    Isn't there a generic middle setting to choose? I think I always go for that or for quality.
     
    StormEffect, Feb 25, 2008
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  4. Meetloaf13

    Meetloaf13 fear the MONKEY!!!

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    He Xe, I never changed mine, they are at default and CS:S runs beautifully...anywhere from 90-130 FPS...too bad my refresh rate is 60 MHz
     
    Meetloaf13, Feb 25, 2008
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  5. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    LOL. at that refresh rate your head would spin.
    It`s 60 Hz :D
     
    eleron911, Feb 26, 2008
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    Id love to see a 60MHz refresh rate, that would make a great amusement park ride!
     
    tloc9880, Feb 26, 2008
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  7. Magnus72

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    They are useful, if you use High Performance instead of High Quality or Quality it does make a difference in frame rate and the picture is no worse in High peformance than Quality.
     
    Magnus72, Feb 26, 2008
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    Seems a little odd that the picture quality would be the same? What and how have you tested? do you have screenshots to compare maybe?
     
    thomaskc.dk, Feb 26, 2008
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  9. Magnus72

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    If you put on high quality the only thing that disables is some optimizations for Anisotropic Filtering. So, yes some of the picture quality gets lost, but it is merely visible to my eyes at least. I have tested this a lot. Now you can compensate for this by altering the AF slider to at least 4xAF.

    The overall picture is nowhere less beatiful with High Performance than High Quality. High Performance is essentially quality with some optimizations in regards to picture quality. This is how I look at it. Yes I can post some screenies if you want, side by side.
     
    Magnus72, Feb 26, 2008
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  10. Macks

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    I'd be interested in seeing the comparisons Magnus.
     
    Macks, Feb 26, 2008
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  11. Leon

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    I would too.
     
    Leon, Feb 26, 2008
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  12. Magnus72

    Magnus72 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yep will do when I get home from work. Personally I haven´t noticed any difference in picture quality, but in speed and performance I have. Also it seems like it depends on the video driver itself too. Some drivers delievers better picture quality than others, maybe not anymore, but with older drivers it was so.
     
    Magnus72, Feb 27, 2008
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