video settings- for maximum quality

[Delirium]

If anyone wants to know something, then ask the question.  I can promise you will get a more reliable and accurate answer than someone who is slinging this type of tripe around.

Here goes, assume I have the hi-res pack but I want to push my video card still further and see what kind of quality I can achieve.

What should be enabled, boosted, or left disabled within the video control panel?

(I have this new machine and I'm definitely not stressing it)

Thanks in advance!

[Delirium]

I turned on Anisotropic and Antialiasing, am I missing anything?

[Masherbrum]

You cannot push your card with what we have.  I have an 8800GTS KO and have mine at 16x, 16xQ, Trilinear because I play Left 4 Dead and other games.  But AH will never tax the VC's that some of us have.   

I peg the needle at 60 because I have a regular 19" LCD with a DVI native resolution of 1280x1024. 

[_vic_]

hrmm... You guys like having AH antialiased huh? When I first started playing I turned AA and AF up real high... but the "pixel blending" that it does made it more difficult to tell what enemy planes were doing at a distance. Ar around 3-4k I couldn't tell which direction they were heading or what they were doing... I might try turning it back on now that I've been playing for a few months...

Tim

[Bruv119]

you dont need the anisoptric filtering on as AH doesnt support it ,

not much difference between 4x aa and 16x  except stressing the card more,  i settled on 8x.

[Skuzzy]

I would disable AF.  It is not going to help but in a few examples where you would not be looking anyway.

Where you can wreck your performance is if you GV a lot.  AA w/transparency can kill your GV performance.  So can Adaptive AA.

[BaldEagl]

I'm running 16xAA and 16xAF with almost everything else set to high quality settings on an 8800 GTS 512 and it never even hiccups off 60 FPS.

Just crank it up and enjoy.

[Skuzzy]

Using AF is just a waste of graphic power.  If you just want to run your video card hotter, then have at it.  There are so few places in the game where it is noticeable it is not worth it.  Unless you constantly are looking at the tops of your wing when flying.

[BaldEagl]

Unless you constantly are looking at the tops of your wing when flying.

Heh... actually I often am on climb-out

I've never set up profiles and AH isn't the only thing I use the computer for.  As long as it handles everything I do at those settings then no muss no fuss for me.  My card runs maybe 55C under full load with my fan settings.