Video card Settings

[Heretic]

Fellas,

Just brought my brand new system home today.  I have a e-GeForce 8800GT superclocked card. What settings should I set up for playing the game?  Antialising/Anisotropic settings?  Screen refresh rate?  I have a 22" Acer AL2216W Monitor.     I appreciate any and all comments.

Thanks much........................

[AirFlyer]

8800 huh? So long as you have a decent CPU to boot you should be able to set anything you want where ever you want.

[Bronk]

Remember to enable  vsynch after that it's just gravy.

[Max]

Originally posted by Heretic
Fellas,

Just brought my brand new system home today.  I have a e-GeForce 8800GT superclocked card. What settings should I set up for playing the game?  Antialising/Anisotropic settings?  Screen refresh rate?  I have a 22" Acer AL2216W Monitor.     I appreciate any and all comments.

Thanks much........................

Do a google for Nhancer...it's a freeware 3rd party Nvidia card tweaker. There's a profile already set to go for AH.

[acfireguy26]

No profile for AH.

[doc1kelley]

Originally posted by Max
Do a google for Nhancer...it's a freeware 3rd party Nvidia card tweaker. There's a profile already set to go for AH.

Max,
I downloaded the newest version of Nhancer and there are profiles but I see none for Aces High.  Perhaps you could point us to a profile so it can be imported.

All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1

[Max]

Here's the settings I used, as suggested by Falcon23.
OK settings in nhancer are as follows...
 
AA is multi-sampling 8xQ
below that,in same box I have Super transpaerency checked
 
 anistropic filtering:4X
Vertical sync:ON and FORCE OPENGL TRIPLE BUFFER checked as well
 
 under OPTIMIZATIONS
 
 TEXTURE FILTERING: HIGH QUALITY
TRILINIEAR OPTIMIZATION:OFF
ANISO. SAMPLE OPTIMIZATION: OFF
NEGATIVE LOD BIAS: CLAMPED
ADJUST LOD BIAS:0.00
FORCE DXT3(opengl):ON
PRERENDER LIMIT:3
 
 under COMPATABILITY
 
 AA COMPATSABILITY:GENERAL COMPATABILITY
OPEN GL SUPPORT:GENERAL COMPATABILITY
FORCE MIPMAPS:TRILINEAR
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE:DISABLED
CONFORMANT TEXTURE CLAMP:OFF
DRIVER EXTENSION LIMIT:0
REPORTED OPEN GL LIMIT:0
REPORTED OPEN GL VERSION:default
OPEN GL CONTROL:nothing checked but box in corner is checked..
DYNAMIC TILING:1
CPU MULTI-CORE SUPPORT:MULTI-CORE

[OOZ662]

There's a "Disable Smilies" checkbox, you know...

[falcon23]

I found Nhancer after trying to figure out why I was getting shimmering.Max was also,so I think it has helped him as well as me..the ANISOTROPIC filtering seems to affect it the most,and conformant texture it also said definetly helps with it as well.

As max has said,there should be a pre-setting for aces high..Nhancer gives MORE explanation of what to do with settings,and also halps people who have preblems with shimmering..

 BTW Max,how has it been for you lately?I have made further adjustments as some of the HIGHER settings,I.E. ANISOTROPIC FILTERING really works at higher settings like 8x and 16x,but I really do take a hit on performance,and find my comp shutting down due to the higher settings,so I keep it relatively low for myself..

                                                              Kevin

[RedGiant]

Originally posted by Heretic
Fellas,

Just brought my brand new system home today.  I have a e-GeForce 8800GT superclocked card. What settings should I set up for playing the game?  Antialising/Anisotropic settings?  Screen refresh rate?  I have a 22" Acer AL2216W Monitor.     I appreciate any and all comments.

Thanks much........................

I would set the resolution as high as your monitor allows(but not higher than what your monitor is set at for windows!) with Full AA, Full Anisotropic Filtering, high quality setting (the slider in your nvidia control panel for performance, quality, high quality, etc).  And then I'd work my way down from there where you get a good balance of graphics and performance.  That 8800GT is a baaaaaad @ass card.   It shouldn't have any problems running AH balls to the wall as far as graphics and performance are concerned.  I run AH on several PC's and a laptop at home.  My oldest PC has a Geforce 6800GT AGP and it STILL runs this game with everything cranked at 1280X1024 and never get a hiccup.  
AH really doesn't require too much performance.  Probably to keep it available for those who don't have top-notch systems or systems that are a little older.  I'm sure many of us can appreciate that.  THANKS HITECH!  

[VERTEX]

Whats the difference  betwtween a 6800GT and a 6800XE?

Ive read these cards run hot, is that a problem.

I have an AMD athlon 3000+ processor with 1gb of pc3200 ram, and a fx5700le video card.

Is it worth spending 68 bucks to get the 6800XE?

Whats the best video card for the buck on my system?

How high can I go before the processor or memory needs upgrading?

I am interested in performance for AHII only.

I dont want to spend a lot on high end stuff that is beyond AHII requirements

Please Help

Thanks.

[VERTEX]

Oh, I should mention that this system has been satisfactory for a couple of years until I got a View Sonic 22" monitor, now that things are bigger, I notice more things wrong like shimmering. And notchy motions even at 40 fps. I would like to minimize shimmerig and have a smoother gameplay.

Thanks.

[OOZ662]

All of the 6800s (as far as I know) are manually unlockable using a program called RivaTuner. nVidia made all the different versions of the card by locking or unlocking pixel pipelines/shaders to slow the card down. All of them have the same hardware, so there's really no downside to unlocking them.

I've used a standard XFX 6800 unlocked to whatever the best 6800's specs are for the past three or four years. With a decent system under it, it can easily run this game full slider settings and hi-res.

[falcon23]

Vertex,I have gotten rid of most of the shimmering I was seeing in-game with NHANCER program,do a google for it,and download it,go through it and it will basically give you a step-by-step of what settings to put it at to help reduce shimmering..I have been very happy with it...
                                                     Kevin

[VERTEX]

I have downloaded enhancer, and the latest drivers from nvidia, this has helped.

Today I ordered a 7300GT 512mb vid card and another 1gb of ram, well see what these do.