7800gtx hardware settings vs In game settings

[phantom404]

This has probably already been talked about but I didnt find anything on it so thought I would share what I found out.

Was playing F.E.A.R at 1680 x 1050 and I finally got tired of teh shimmering stuff so I decided to use Nvidia's hardware controller instead of F.E.A.R's settings. Turned everything on high left the quality setting on quality(not highest quality). Restarted F.E.A.R and everything ran perfect. No more shimmering although the FPS dropped a little bit according to the test inside of F.E.A.R. Not only 95% is above 40fps

I then tried this out in World of Warcraft where the shimmering is really bad and it to went away!!!

 

[RobertR1]

How dare you talk about shimmering! According to the nvidia fanboys such a phenomenon does not exist.

 

[phantom404]

Originally posted by: RobertR1
How dare you talk about shimmering! According to the nvidia fanboys such a phenomenon does not exist.

LOL trust me I am a fanboy and trust me they do exist

 

[CP5670]

uh, what exactly did you do to fix it? Nvidia's hardware controller?

 

[phantom404]

Insetad of letting the applications control the graphics settings i switched it so that the video cards would.

 

[Elfear]

Interesting, I'll have to try that tonight.

 

[the splat in the hat]

Originally posted by: phantom404
This has probably already been talked about but I didnt find anything on it so thought I would share what I found out.

Was playing F.E.A.R at 1680 x 1050 and I finally got tired of teh shimmering stuff so I decided to use Nvidia's hardware controller instead of F.E.A.R's settings. Turned everything on high left the quality setting on quality(not highest quality). Restarted F.E.A.R and everything ran perfect. No more shimmering although the FPS dropped a little bit according to the test inside of F.E.A.R. Not only 95% is above 40fps

I then tried this out in World of Warcraft where the shimmering is really bad and it to went away!!!

Hahahahahaha

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: CP5670
uh, what exactly did you do to fix it? Nvidia's hardware controller?

What (i think) he means is that he turned on the IQ and eye-candy in the Nvidia control panel thingy instead of letting the application handle the AA and stuff like that. am i right??

 

[phantom404]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: CP5670
uh, what exactly did you do to fix it? Nvidia's hardware controller?

What (i think) he means is that he turned on the IQ and eye-candy in the Nvidia control panel thingy instead of letting the application handle the AA and stuff like that. am i right??

lol yea thats right, thx

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: phantom404

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: CP5670
uh, what exactly did you do to fix it? Nvidia's hardware controller?

What (i think) he means is that he turned on the IQ and eye-candy in the Nvidia control panel thingy instead of letting the application handle the AA and stuff like that. am i right??

lol yea thats right, thx

I knew I was right... Just making sure

 

[Leper Messiah]

oh sweet. I hope this works when I get my 7800GT this week. Is performance similar?

 

[TheRyuu]

Read the OP's original post, it said frame rates dropped a little but no that much.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

heh

with my old 6800gt, i used to get something like this. though IQ stayed the same.

4xaa and 8xaf set in the game with drivers set to quality and app preference was slower by about 5-7fps than not setting any aa or af in the game, but instead setting 4xaa and 8xaf in the nvidia drivers.....wierd