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A few questions about IQ settings. My goal is to have the nvidia card I am using now in my new pci-e system make the same iq as the ati card I had in my old (now dead) system (the x800xt is now in my wife's computer.)

Here is what I did before:
ATi x800XT:

FSAA 4x
AF 2x
High Quality

In WOW the textures were detailed and clear and crisp, even in distant. So much so I figured I would never need to use anything more than 2x af.

Now I am runnintg a borrowed 6800 GT in my new O-175 machine and I am disapointed in the iq. Even with 16x af, it looks smoothed over, like the textures have less detail and the distant objects have fuzzy to no detail.

I have tried every setting I can think of in the drivers (82.12) and installed coolbits and rivatuner and played with all the settings.

So, my question is: What do I need to do to get the iq the way I am used to it?

Please, refrain from ati vs nvidia bs hype about which is better...just answer if you think you can help.
 
under the performance and qualtity tab make sure image settings is set to high quality, not quality which is the normal default.
 
Did that, which locked out a few other adjustments. It made no difference.
I then unchecked it and adjusted the other settings, still nothing better.

There must be whqat would equate to an LOD setting somewhere that will override the normal settings in the control panels...because something is really whacking out the detail.
 
Set Negative LOD Bias to "Clamp"

Scroll down to the very bottom of the advanced driver settings.
 
Thanks,

I used rivatuner to uncheck negative LOD bias clamp (allowing negative LOD values) so I could set LOD to -2, that pretty much fixed texture details, but it inrtroduced shimmering. Because of this I am considering lowering the FSAA settings.

I have more experimenting to do.
 
LOD bias at -1 seems to work pretty well. Still get really light shimmering but it's acceptable.

I guess thats how nVidia beat the shimmering problem ATi was still fighting. I'm glad ATi didn't go the same way, maybe they will figure it out in the long run.
 
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