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Do YOU bother using AA/AF, TRAA, V-sync?

lay-z-boy said:
16x aa
16x af
high quality
vsync on & tb
trilinear maps
supersampling
1280x1024 on a 8800gtx
ingame deatils on max

I will accept no substitute :p
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Similar for me, except slightly less AA as I only have the GTS. :)
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
That's because the entire point of vsync is to keep your fps at around the same figure as your refresh rate. ;)

If you're running say 75hz with vsync on and it's dropping to 30-40fps then that's normal, because if your GPU can't hope with constant 75fps then it will half it.

I am using a TFT, so my refresh rate is 60hz. Since most of my games run at much higher framerates than 60fps (85fps average and 250fps high according to Company Of Heroes benchmark, just for example's sake) then my framerate is always 60fps if I enable vsync, which is why I do it. :D
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Then do pray tell, why my X1950XT cannot handle a constant 75fps in WoW when it normally toodles along at double that without Vsync?
 
Dutch Guy said:
Why not use 16xCSAA instead of 8xMSAA as it looks nearly the same and gives better performance?
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Well, if I had a 8800 series card I would. :D

7900GTO@GTX atm, but sold it the other day for a £30 6600GT till the 8800 GTX comes down in price. :)
 
KNiVES said:
Then do pray tell, why my X1950XT cannot handle a constant 75fps in WoW when it normally toodles along at double that without Vsync?
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B0rked drivers?

all vsync does is cap your fps, it shouldnt do anything else.
 
vsync will cap your fps at your monitors refresh, if it falls 1fps lower than the refresh then the fps will half until the actual fps is that of your monitors refresh again.

triple buffering helps to stop this as it has a extra frame buffered just incase the fps falls lower.

thats iirc lol
 
I started using 16AF and 8AA since I upgraded to 8800. For me its the selling point of the hardware - it takes minimal performance hit.

And I'll tell you what, it looks stunning - a big jump in image quality.

I'll be using those settings from now on.

I don't use Vsync, it can destroy your frame rates in laggy games.
 
KNiVES said:
Then do pray tell, why my X1950XT cannot handle a constant 75fps in WoW when it normally toodles along at double that without Vsync?
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As someone said, your framerate must not be constantly above 75fps. If it drops even 1fps short, it'll cut it in half until your framerate is back above 75fps for long periods of time.
 
Mostly use 4x AA & 16x AF.
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Never ever use v-synch and trying to kill it always as its totally useless for me.
 
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snowdog said:
Never ever use v-synch and trying to kill it always as its totally useless.
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I beg to differ. I think it depends on the game and monitor you own, but BF2142 tears all over the place on my 20" VX2025/7900GTO setup.

V-Sync is a welcomed option if ever you need it and certainly not useless.
 
Kaiju said:
I beg to differ. I think it depends on the game and monitor you own, but BF2142 tears all over the place on my 20" VX2025/7900GTO setup.

V-Sync is a welcomed option if ever you need it and certainly not useless.
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Never noticed tearing in any game tbh, unless i dont know what it is, but even in games with over 75 fps (like bf1942: 100 fps and no prob,somehow limited to 100 fps too btw) or other older games i don't notice any probs, and in newer games my fps wont be above 60 anyhow so just pointless and in games like scarface, vsync somehow more than halfes the fps...


EDIT: but then again i realized i haven't played much on my tft yet, just have it since a month or so, but never noticed tearing on my crt and not (yet) on my tft...
 
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snowdog said:
vsync somehow more than halfes the fps...
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Are you even reading this thread? :D

spookywillow said:
vsync will cap your fps at your monitors refresh, if it falls 1fps lower than the refresh then the fps will half until the actual fps is that of your monitors refresh again.
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snowdog said:
Not the thing, i know what vsynch does (or is supposed to), but scarface the world is yours is a messed game, if you dont force vsynch in nvidia tools off i get 10 fps instead of 30 ish in soem scenes, even people with 1900xt's have problems with vsynch performace in scarface.
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My bad, carry on as you were. :o
 
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btw, dont know if this is on or offtopic, but i dont think i know exactly what tearing in games is, anyone has a picture of it ( or if cant make a screenshot of it, a picture of tearing on a monitor, as i'm really unsure what the gfx bug tearing is or looks like...)



Oh and EDIT (sry :p)

What i said about scarface is true, vsync even tho my refresh is 75hz or 85 hz usually, lowers the fps from 30ish to around 10 usually...
Edit 2: now i'm confused, why doesnt vsynch just limit the fps if the fps are above monitor refresh, instead of below?
 
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