Display Settings

Well after reviewing my settings and testing multiple combinations I have slightly improved my performance and still maintain 20 to 25 fps.

I noticed that in Cazzie's settings and in mine I had checked "Enhance in-game AA settings" and it has been a long time since this past spring when I set this up so I decided to look at what that means.

Anti-Aliasing: Enhance in-game AA setting

Usually, if you force an Anti-Aliasing mode through the driver, all rendering is done with the AA mode selected, regardless of what the application itself tells the driver to do.
This works with most games. But especially more current games have an option to enable AA within the game itself and give the driver very specific information where to apply AA and where not.
Enabling AA from within the game is more compatible and more efficient than forcing the AA mode through the driver, but has the disadvantage, that you're limited to the AA modes available in the game's options.
If you enable the option "Enhance in-game AA setting", AA will only be applied as defined by the game - so you have to enable AA in the game as well. But the driver still controls which AA mode is applied, which gives you the best results: optimal compatibility and efficiency while still being able to use all the new modes offered by nVidia.
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Basically it takes the in game AA and modifies it so it is better.

With my settings like this I get around 25fps with out a problem but I always have the Jaggies and I attributed it to the fact I have a lower end system now.

The combinations I tested were:

AA on in the game Off in NHancer
AA Off in the game On in NHancer
AA Off in the game Off in NHancer
AA On in the game On in NHancer

With AA set to NHancer I tested both 4x, 8x, and 16x

4x gives you a wild psychedelic feeling that you are on a bad acid trip. I took a screen shot but it did not save for some reason. Snapshoot must have freaked out. :icon_lol:

8x works good

16x crashes my sim CTD

It seems the best combinations were to only have one applications working the AA. When ever I had NHancer and the game applying AA I get the Jaggies (why it is named after Mick Jagger I don't know).

It did not matter which applications was in control of AA as long as it was the only one controlling it. It was doing better than my current settings.

So I have modified NHancer to not "Enhance in-game AA settings" and I am doing it all from the video card set at 8x.

Here is AA on in the game and on in nHancer

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Here is AA on in the game and off in nHancer or AA off in the game and on in nHancer

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So this is my new settings in nHancer and she does look better now.



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rayrey10

You just need to find your sweet spot. It will be somewhere inbetween mysettings and Cazzie's as my system is much lower end than yours but his is higher than both of ours.

Good Luck
 
Hi all,
Your machine is similar to mine at present.You have a slightly faster processor,but slightly slower graphics card.
I have an E6600 2.4 with an 8800GTX graphics card.
All my settings are maxed out and I use Real Enviroment Pro to update some of the graphic looks.So you should be able to do the same.

Buddha13
 
I definitely agree that only one AA should be one. Besides that, I have not found that sweet spot just yet , but I'll keep working at it.

Again thanks a bunch!

Ray
 
I would try putting your AF from application to 16x, I would also try turning off your vsync. I never had AA on in the sim itself everything can come from nhancer.

You can also try making what ever you have in the profile make it the same in global. Let us know if that makes any diff for you.
 
Dave & Seaking,
Thanks! I'll check this out some time soon (hopefully). Going out of town for XMas, but at least I'll read the articles and try this stuff out next week. You guys have a Merry Xmas!
Ray
 
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