fluffydelusions
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Has anyone used it to "optimize" games? Does it actually work or what?
Basically.If you don't like to mess with the options menu, yep it works.
Has anyone used it to "optimize" games? Does it actually work or what?
I prefer to tweak myself. You can use it as a base, and tweak from there. Half the fun of PC gaming is tweaking values in a text editor
I find it pretty useless, it only really lets you change stuff in the menus from what I've seen in the games I have installed. Would be useful if they included undocumented settings in .ini files etc without having to do a bunch of googling.
It also almost always recommends fullscreen (which I dispise) over fullscreen windowed mode, ugh.
First off, I don't get why there isn't a "let the 3D application decide" option for every single setting here. I don't understand what all the texture filtering options mean, but why wouldn't you want the card to use everything it can do?
When I restore my 640m to defaults using this screen it turns a lot of stuff off, which I totally don't understand; if the card can do it why wouldn't I want it on? And if it hinders performance then why does it do something poorly?
Obviously I'm not an expert on GPU's but it seems needlessly complicated.
Sometimes bad settings break compatibility with games especially if you start messing with aa, af, and lod bias.
People also use lower settings for fps gains, typically average or minimum gains not just the peak. I play a lot of titles fast competitive titles at 120fps and it needs to stay there or very close to it.
Trades off in performance or iq can be a pain in a neck or a blessing in disguise.
Yeah, I get the general idea of reduce quality = better performance, however I'm never sure if I change settings in-game, if it will override the global settings if I have them turned off in the above menu.
To make things more confusing, this screen:
has a clear "let the 3D application decide" option, but it isn't clear whether this option overrides the above menu.
Basically I'm trying to figure what is the "master setting" that I should be worrying about? There doesn't seem to be any hierarchy to these menus so I can't figure out which setting the card will actually obey.
Only way to know is to test. My experience is limited with the Geforce experience it was just a nice touch. I noticed as I had to recent reinstall and it saved me sometime in dealing with my crysis 2&3 setting or correcting source games settings that never are right for me until I change them.
I still tweak like mofo and suggest most gamers do or give it a try when they run in to problems or aren't seeing performance they know should be there.
Nvidia Inspector is better you see far more options and making profiles is lot easier than the convulted nvidia cpanel. Guru3d is good place to see guides on tweaking cards, drivers or games.
I end up having to tweak everything individually, but I really don't enjoy it, especially when I just bought a new game and want to play it.
My problem is that I'm just savvy enough to know when things aren't right, but nowhere near savvy enough to make educated guesses about what I should be changing. The number of options available in Nvidia Inspector or, for example, The Witcher 2's graphics settings screen is so overwhelming that I get discouraged easily.