Which is more stressful/prettier...compressed or 32-bit textures?

[eLiu]

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-eric

 

[TunaBoo]

32 bit textures could be compressed... so could 16 bit.

Compression will make the textures look not as nice (depends how lossy, I have no idea on this matter) and will take up more GPU/CPU power to do the compression. However, smaller textures will save bandwith for your video ram improving preformance.

 

[eLiu]

ahh...ok

so, should I leave texture compression enabled or disabled? Like are there situations where the CPU/GPU slowdown eliminate the advantage of gained bandwidth? Or is it (and this is what i suspect)...more bandwidth is just about always better?

-eric

 

[TunaBoo]

I guess it varies by game and card. I have a kyro2 64 meg. Tile based doesnt strain SDRAM, and 64 is a lot, so I leave it alone.

 

[eLiu]

Hmmm...then I'll just play around with it...cut it on/off and see which way is better...

thanks for the info TunaBoo

-eric