Image Settings?

[Skott]

Installed my new 7800GS CO Superclock video card and so far everything is looking good but I'm still tinkering around with it. I did have a question about the image settings though. On the image settings it has the following choices:

High Performance
Performance
Quality
High Quality

The default setting is Quality. Now I figure High Performance is the obvious choice as far as gaming goes but I was curious whats the difference between that and High Quality? Would High Quality be better for DvD movies and such?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Skott
Installed my new 7800GS CO Superclock video card and so far everything is looking good but I'm still tinkering around with it. I did have a question about the image settings though. On the image settings it has the following choices:

High Performance
Performance
Quality
High Quality

The default setting is Quality. Now I figure High Performance is the obvious choice as far as gaming goes but I was curious whats the difference between that and High Quality? Would High Quality be better for DvD movies and such?

They effect 3D rendering quality; the 'performance' settings use worse texture filtering and does other things that make your games run faster but look worse. Even 'quality' make some compromises (and NVIDIA has been knocked for this, since it gives them a leg up in benchmarks but their IQ at default settings is not as good as it could be).

It has nothing to do with DVD movies. WTF?

 

[xtknight]

Since Video Mixing Renderer 9 renders videos through the 3D pipeline (when requested), anti-aliasing can have a good effect on the video. Even though it also allocates a texture I don't think anisotropic filtering would have any effect on it. Mipmapping options (Quality, High Performance, etc) probably won't effect it either. All this stuff only applies if you are using VMR9 anyway.

 

[Skott]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Skott
Installed my new 7800GS CO Superclock video card and so far everything is looking good but I'm still tinkering around with it. I did have a question about the image settings though. On the image settings it has the following choices:

High Performance
Performance
Quality
High Quality

The default setting is Quality. Now I figure High Performance is the obvious choice as far as gaming goes but I was curious whats the difference between that and High Quality? Would High Quality be better for DvD movies and such?

They effect 3D rendering quality; the 'performance' settings use worse texture filtering and does other things that make your games run faster but look worse. Even 'quality' make some compromises (and NVIDIA has been knocked for this, since it gives them a leg up in benchmarks but their IQ at default settings is not as good as it could be).

It has nothing to do with DVD movies. WTF?

Well, I was equating High performance with better framerate I guess. So I was thinking Quality with say, slower performance but better picture quality. I used DvD movie viewing as an example. So anyway, if I under stand what your saying correctly I have it backwards and should go for quality over performance in the settings?

I was playing around on DAOC today with High Performance and it sure looked a heck of alot better than what my old 9800Pro 256 displayed it. When I get home tonight I'll switch it to High Quality and see how it looks.

 

[BFG10K]

Put it on high quality and leave it there.

 

[rox1co]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Put it on high quality and leave it there.

if only all games could run smooth on high quality

i'm still lagging on my AGP, w00t

upgrade soon