can drivers affect LOD in games?

[Gerard]

Been playing around with my newly aquired 8800gts in bf2, for some reason or other im really noticing the lod system kicking in and out with this card. flying about in the hind and going to flyby mode i can see the model change from low detail to higher detail, really obvious especially on the landing gear. Also been noticing shadows\bumpmapping disappearing on tanks from a shorter distance than on my old x1900.


Can't say i ever noticed the model change that much on my x1900 though, driver optomisation or glitch maybe?

 

[fornowagain]

Just wondering if LOD=clamp, Mipmaps=Trilinear and texture filtering=High Quality makes any difference?

 

[Gerard]

Texture filterings on hq, i don't see the option for lod clamp, this new control panel they have is weird

 

[fornowagain]

 

[Firegod]

Just wondering if LOD=clamp, Mipmaps=Trilinear and texture filtering=High Quality makes any difference?

Aye, if you use AF then LOD should be clamped to stop shimmering. But if not, set it to allow to get better performance (apparently). Mipmaps should be on Trilinear and texture filtering to HQ to turn off any optimisations.