Nvidia Control Panel Settings

[mehuk]

I have a pair of 580 cards and although I know that in game I can max settings etc, ive found that in my Nvidia Control panel that I can seemingly force a certian quality.

Now my questions are:

1 - Do these override anything I set in game?
2 - Do I leave things like AA and AF as application controlled or could I default htem myself to something?

2b - If the answer 2 is to change them to something myself, what should I change it to?

Atm I have:

Ambient Occlusion - OFF
Ansiotropic Filtering - App Controlled (i can go upto 16x)
Antialiasing Gamma - OFF
Antialiasin Mode - App Controlled (i can go upto SLI 64x CSAA)
Antialiasin Transparency - OFF (I can goto 8x supersample)
CUDA - GPUS - All
Maximum pre rendered frames - 3 (i can go to 8)
Power Management - Adaptive
SLI Rendering mode - NVIDIA Recomended
Texture Filterin Ansiotropic sample - OFF
Texture Filtering Negative LOD Bias - Allow
Texture Filtering Qualitu - Quality
Texture Filtering Trilieanr - On
Threaded Optimization - Auto
Triple Buffering - Off
Vertical Sync - Use 3D application setting (note I dont have a 3D monitor)

All help appreciated, im sure im not getting the best from my cards tbh

 

[varkanoid]

1. Not if you have App Controlled set. For instance Antialiasing Mode has an option "overide any application setting" it also has "enhance any application setting"

2. Upto you, I used to alter them but I tend just use the ingame setting.

2b. What ever looks best for you !