Nvidia High Quality?

[freddiepm61]

Is there any difference between the Nvidia Quality and High Quality settings?
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[Akuma]

With the 78.03s HQ has no shimmering while Q has some. If you don't notice it then pay no attention to that.

HQ has a more crisp look, imo. Might be placebo effect but I only play on HQ. There very little to no performance hit in most games, so why not?

 

[Brent_Justice]

High Quality mode disables all filtering optimizations, so the IQ could potentially be hihger, but there is a framerate hit.

 

[freddiepm61]

thanks

 

[TheRapture]

I play (mostly) Far Cry with it set to HQ, 2xS AA, 16x AF, vsync ON and get very nice, smooth, stutter and tear free frames. I will post some graphs this evening of a couple runs...

Some people say 4x AA all the way but I, coming from the old skool Q1, Q2, and Q3 era, need a bit more framerate than that.

And yes, I have an LCD, hence the vsync on and I force triplebuffering via a config file....works great!

 

[Russ]

I play (mostly) Far Cry with it set to HQ, 2xS AA, 16x AF, vsync ON and get very nice, smooth, stutter and tear free frames. I will post some graphs this evening of a couple runs...

Some people say 4x AA all the way but I, coming from the old skool Q1, Q2, and Q3 era, need a bit more framerate than that.

And yes, I have an LCD, hence the vsync on and I force triplebuffering via a config file....works great!

I'm pretty sure the nvidia drivers can enable triple buffering now. I'm on a CRT and I have that option if I want it.

 

[TheRapture]

I'm pretty sure the nvidia drivers can enable triple buffering now. I'm on a CRT and I have that option if I want it.

I saw that, but I was thinking it only did so for OpenGL? Will try it out tonight....thanks for the heads up...

 

[DarkBahamut]

I saw that, but I was thinking it only did so for OpenGL? Will try it out tonight....thanks for the heads up...

No idea, but when i tried triple buffering + v sync in NFSU2 the game went really laggy, took like 1-2 seconds for the game to respond to the controls, FPS was ok, but lagged to hell. So i turned it off and never used it again.

I'd rather have the tear effect than 2 seconds of lag .

 

[Russ]

I saw that, but I was thinking it only did so for OpenGL? Will try it out tonight....thanks for the heads up...

Ah, well maybe. As I said, "I have to option to do it." I haven't done it myself. And I don't have many new games (no HL2, D3, or FarCry cept for source), so not really planning to test it out anytime soon.