Infraction for aleyro: Grammar

Kaubel · 08/02/07, 3:19 PM

Post: Settings that Maximize Performance
User: aleyro
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

I understand you feel your time is valuable, but to post on these forums you'll need to spare the extra time it takes to use proper capitalization.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Kaber

I keep running into issues where every time I attempt to set my Multi-Sample rates to 1x from 4x, it reverts back when I restart WoW. ...

Originally Posted by kycan

...I have also experienced this oddity....

Originally Posted by GokieKS

Check to make sure your video card drivers are not forcing specific ...settings...

Originally Posted by Bag

Easiest way to check this?

differs slightly if your running winxp or vista, and differs greatly depending on what video card you have. basically, your trying to get to your "display poperties" control panel, and click on the tab specific to your video card. in vista, you go "personalize->display settings->advanced->(your video card)".

once you find your video card's control panel, basically turn everything down, or set it to "let the application decide", or whatever your card's vendor calls that option.

Originally Posted by kycan

... I don't think I measured a significant difference in frame rate, regardless of what I had [multisampling] at. Go figure.

this might be because it wasn't actually changing the multisampling rate,because your video card had it "clamped" down at a certain setting. what multisampling does is(warning: the following may be wildly innacurate, but its how it was explained to me?) it blends previous frames into the current frame to dramatically increase the quality of anti-aliasing. if you use 1x antialiasing, it goes back 1 frame. if you use 4x, it goes back 4 frames. on my machine, 2x is half the framerate of 1x. 4x is half the framerate of 2x.