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image quality on nvidia

Jimi said:
This is why a lot of people say nVidia have **** GFX quality.
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You might want to edit out the swearing before you get a holiday :)

For me I've never noticed the shimmering but then I don't always play with maxed out settings, I normally just run with whatever the computer defaults to because I can't be bothered when I've got a game to play.
 
Shimmering for most was on a certain model of card and specific drivers, later fixed, I seem to remember ATI at same time had probs with same and also fixed, cant remember what big new games was at time though.

Nvidia quality will look better if you slide slider all way right in settings, by default it falls 1 notch short of this, you will then see (if you tick show advanced settings) the change it has on all settings in there, turning OFF some of the artifical settings and using better IQ but obv you take a small FPS hit.
 
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mmj_uk said:
yeah that's right it was exposed on rage3d but stuff like that gets ignored and quickly brushed under the carpet by the IQ obsessed ati fanboys.
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If your reffering to be being an ATI fanboi then your wrong as I have a nVidia 7800GTX. Makes me laugh when you get called a fanboi just because you comment on bad points of manufacturers and their hardware. :rolleyes:
 
I've noticed shimmering on "quality" setting on my SLI 6800 Ultras.
Switching to "high quality" as mentioned in the OP does remedy this.

To summise the article is saying that from the advent of the 7 series nVidia cards, the "high quality setting" no longer disables all the AF optimisations. It's still only sampling a lot of the texels between 90 & 45 deg at x2 or x4 despite the control panel being set at x16, regardless of the quality setting.

However the article mentions that ATI SM3 cards are not free of this shimmering either, just affected to a much lesser extent, & also that ATI have improved AF with each generation. Whereas nVidia seem to have stepped back a level from the 4 series.

The beef is that nVidia no longer seem to be offering an image quality that is on a par with the older 4 series cards.
 
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Hmm, setting slider back to Quality and checking advanced option (or drop down) I noted all aspects and if on or off, I then set back to HIGH QUALITY, and noted down same settings on or off, there totally different and this is on a 7000 card so unless Nvidia are hiding facts its same as it was before, all the artifical settings are off now.
 
bliss007 said:
Hmm, setting slider back to Quality and checking advanced option (or drop down) I noted all aspects and if on or off, I then set back to HIGH QUALITY, and noted down same settings on or off, there totally different and this is on a 7000 card so unless Nvidia are hiding facts its same as it was before, all the artifical settings are off now.
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They are allegedly hiding it.
People are not sure whether it's a hardware or driver issue though.
 
I didn't really notice much before, but now i'm playing oblivion a lot and that game needs AF, then the texture shimmering is doing my head in :(

Also, the type of game means angle independant AF would be a massive treat, as would HDR+AA. I want an x1900 card :D
 
lol no it was my original post and came across it by accident ,just commented on it for a laugh,and no im waiting for cliffs of dover then i wont have time to waste :)
 
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