AMD Adrenaline driver settings... help with conflicting info please!

[Sumanji]

Unusually for me, I've had a bunch of settings in the AMD drivers that I've "set and forget" for months (years?!). I just did a clean install of 24.12.1 and wanted to make sure I'm getting the best out of my setup (6900XT driving a freesync monitor at 3440x1440 160Hz).

Tried googling a bit and there's a lot of conflicting information - could you guys help me with some specific questions please?

• Display settings
  • GPU scaling - I think it's better to have this on, rather than letting my panel do the scaling on the rare occasion when I'm not playing at native res (basically only Fallout 76 at 1080p UW) - is that right?
  • Integer scaling - Seems this is good, but not as useful if desktop res is the same as panel res? I have this off for now as it doesn't seem to work with Fallout 76.
  • Freesync - Default is "AMD Optimized" but what's the difference vs."On"?
• Global graphics
  • Frame rate target control - I want to be able to set a frame cap of <160fps, but apparently this setting introduces a lot of lag - is it best to avoid this setting?
• Global & game-specific graphics
  • Anti-Lag - consensus is to always have this on - does it offset lag introduced with FRTC above?
  • Chill - seems this is the better way to limit FPS, but doesn't work with anti-lag - which is more preferable (FRTC+AL vs. Chill)?
  • Image-Sharpening - Is this worth turning on? If so, what % range is ideal?
  • Enhanced sync - Should I turn this on for all games? Any lag associated with it, since it's a type of V-sync?
  • AA method - Does this matter or does the game engine override it anyway?
  • Texture filtering quality - Default is "Standard", but is the IQ meaningfully better on "High"?

Appreciate any guides / videos / other threads that might have covered some of this in detail already!

Cheers,

Su

 

[Sumanji]

Thanks very much! Some questions below:

• Why so high on Image Sharpening? Is it a personal preference thing? Internets seem to suggest 20-30% is the sweet spot.
• "Anti-Aliasing Method - Supersampling" - doesn't this come with a big performance hit?
• Morphological AA seems to blur text in certain games, do you find that's noticeable?
• AF - does your setting above force it in the driver always? If so, what's the benefit vs. just using in-game settings?
• Is there any downside to enabling VSR, but just leaving desktop at native res (i.e., can be used only with older games that might benefit)?
• Integer scaling - I tried setting this to on (together with GPU scaling), but when I play Fallout 76 at 1080p uw, it is centered on screen with massive black borders all the way around. If I disable integer scaling, then it stretches to fill the screen. Am I doing something wrong?

Cheers!