Best Nvidia Control Panel Settings for 9500M GS...

I'm trying to figure out balanced out type of settings for NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS. When I'm playing World of Warcraft and have set everything for the best performance(I looked up some stuff about each of the features and try to set it like on/off for whatever gave more performance). Well, it works good with no lagg and FPS 30-50, sometimes 60, but the graphics aren't really nice. Their kinda sharp with some jaggedness. There's like no smoothness and nice visual graphics. I restored the Nvidia Control Panel to defaults, but it has some little, annoying lagg. When I walk it kinda pauses for a second or 2, like some kind of skipping lagg.

 

-BUMP- Anyone please?

 

I will give you a step by step guide to what you can do to this card to maximize performance in the Performance console:

I. 3D Settings:

1. Adjust Image Settings with preview:
A. Let the 3D Application decide

2. Manage 3D Settings:
B. Under Global Settings, restore defaults.
C. Under program settings, select specific games in which you would like to have different settings for through the console.

II. Display

1. Change Resolution
A. Put the resolution to its native resolution, usually the max resolution
B. Max out the refresh rate, usually 60 hertz.
C. Make sure the color quality is set at 32 bit.

2. Change Flat Panel Scaling
D. Use Nvidia Scaling
3. Adjust Desktop Color Settings
E. Adjust the settings for all monitors to your liking. For my LCD, I have it on:
Brightness: 50%
Digital Vibrance: 41%
Contrast: 65%
Gamma: 60%

Although, it varies for different LCD's. So experiment with your screen and adjust the settings to what you would like best.

4. Set up Multiple Displays
F. Only use one display, make sure it shows for #'s 2 and 3, Digital Flat Panel.

III. Performance

A. Device Settings

9500M GS GPU Engine Specs:
Processor Cores 32
Core Clock (MHz) 475 MHz - Max is around 650
Shader Clock (MHz) 950 MHz - Max is around 1300
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 700 MHz - Max is around 900
Standard Memory Config 512 MB
Memory Interface Width 128-bit


Save different profiles:

I have the following profiles:

LOW OC
MEDIUM OC
MAX OC

I start with Max OC, and then dim it down. So don't load your overclocks at windows startup. Just load them before you play a game. But, those clocks might not work. It just depends on the computer and the card. Not every 9500M GS card is the same.

 

Try this:
Anisotropic filtering: 8x
Negative LOD Bias: Clamp

The rest wont have much effect, but if you want:

Anti-Aliasing gamma correction: Off
Anti-Aliasing: Application controlled
Anti-Aliasing transparency: Multisampling
Conformant texture clamp: Use hardware
Error reporting: Off
Extension limit: Off
Force mipmaps: Bilinear
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
Multi-display/Mixed-gpu acceleration: Single display performance mode
Texture filtering: Anisotropic sample optimisation: On
Texture filtering: Quality: Performance
Texture filtering: Trilinear optimisation: On
Threaded Optimisation: On
Tripple buffering: Off*
Verticle sync: Application controlled**

**Enabling "vsync" will cap your frame rate, usually at 30 or 60 frames per second. Performance can suffer as a result so only enable it in games where you are already getting a steady 60 frames per second.
Vsync is used to eliminate image tearing which becomes more apparant when playing games at higher framerates. Another benefit of enabling vsync is it stops your GPU from over-rendering frames, meaning your gpu will do less work and thus run cooler.
*Enabling tripple buffering can improve performance with vsync enabled.

 

Be careful about the memory clock as this looks to be for the GDDR3 version of the 9500m GS. Most (actually all) 9500m GS I have seen are the DDR2 variant and are hard to clock past 500 MHz.

If you want to change your clocks, I'd do it slowly (5-10 MHz intervals) to ensure that you don't accidentally burn your card out.

 

Okay, thanks guys. Dude 55 and Willy S, both work equally in the Manage 3D Settings.

EDIT: Although Willy S's has an extra 5 FPS most of the time. I'm gonna have to go with yours, thanks Willy S.

 

thankyou willy S, i have a 9200m gs and have just been playing CoD4 on 1280x800 with textures set to ultra. yes, ULTRA on a 9200. glow on, dynamic lights normal, ragdoll on, model detail normal. shadows off, bullet marks off. soften smoke off. texture render method: auto.
in the Nvidia i had the same settings you listed, but with pre remder set to 5, anti aliasing transparency turned off, mipmap trilinear.

now for the fps. consistant 25-30, hitting 40 often. dropping to 14 in very high combat. im amazed. max temp was 48*C.

thankyou so much. +rep

 

Sorry, but I'm gonna have to make a correction here again. Dude 55's way gives 5-10 less FPS, but it isn't really crazy bad lagg, just a tiny one and the graphics are more filled in and simply smoother and better. I can use this while playing WoW. I'm not sure about CoD4, Crysis Wars, or Assassin's Creed cause I haven't checked it out yet. I'll response later how it works out since those games are kinda demanding, especially Crysis though.

 

I know this is an old post but the problem was not with the GPU or GPU settings in regards to the skips every 2 seconds or so. It is actually to do with the dual core CPU's and wow. Try messing with the timings using the wow console, i dont remember the codes i imputted but im sure you can google wow cpu timing or somthing. Fixed it for me

Oh and undervolt your CPU to stop it throttling.

 

This GPU is DDR2 instead of DDR3.
Changing of Maximum Pre-rendered Frames can cause throttle/downclocking randomly for some 9500M GS.
Overclocking is the BEST! As well as the Manage 3D settings. See my signature for overclocking value. Manage 3D setting will be like this,