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Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: Telstar on April 20, 2005, 11:13:00 AM

Hi, What would you say my optimal settings should be ?

Athlon 2500+ (1.83Ghz)

GeForce FX 5600  256Mb

1 Gb System Ram (PC2700)

Nothing overclocked


Current settings are:

1280x1024 (LCD monitor)
512mb textures

Nothing preloaded into Video or System Ram

Level of detail & object size  settings 3/4 of the way to performance and ground detail range set at 2/3 of the way to the right


Also AF is off and AA is set to 2x

direct 3d vsync is set to auto and render ahead is set to no more than 1 frame





Need to try and get the best i can out of this sysem as an upgrade is not going to happen anytime soon.


Thanks

Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 20, 2005, 01:13:33 PM

Actually, what you have there looks ok.  Do you also preload your textures to memory?  Thats the only other suggestion I'd make.

Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: Telstar on April 21, 2005, 05:13:53 PM

Thanks StarOfAfrica2, There was nothing loaded into memory at the time of posting  but i have now allowed it to load into system ram.

Title: Re: optimal video settings ?
Post by: WMLute on April 21, 2005, 08:30:36 PM

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Originally posted by Telstar
direct 3d vsync is set to auto and render ahead is set to no more than 1 frame

skuzzy, anyone, can you tell me if this would help performance at all??  Curious what this setting will do/does.  (this is setting for nvidia cards)

Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 22, 2005, 01:19:21 AM

I've never seen a writeup on the "render ahead" thing.  Default on mine is 3, and it seems to work so I leave it there.  Different cards seem to like different defaults (I assume its a measure of the card and the system you are running on that determines what you can set it to).

Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: WMLute on April 22, 2005, 04:13:32 AM

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
I've never seen a writeup on the "render ahead" thing.  Default on mine is 3, and it seems to work so I leave it there.  Different cards seem to like different defaults (I assume its a measure of the card and the system you are running on that determines what you can set it to).

mine also was 3.  I was just curious, like you having not seen anything about this, what it did, and if it helps/hurts performance.

Oh Great Skuzzy!  Enlighten Us!

Title: optimal video settings ?
Post by: Telstar on April 22, 2005, 05:09:46 AM

Default on mine was 3 as well.... as i understand it, the system will render frames in the background during spare processing time.

i think that as AH is so demanding on my system, telling it to render ahead too many frames will actually slow it down

however  Skuzzy might have different ideas :)