Playing games on Nvidia Graphics card, settings outside of game and in?

ShiWarrior · 3 Apr 2018 at 15:58

Hi all

Been meaning to ask this for a long time now actually

I have Windows 10 home with a nividia GTX 970.

Obviously i have set the in game graphics options to how i want (HIGH detail for example)
Is there any point in then touching the "Nvidia Control Panel" in windows ?

will these work independently to each other?

any tips or links around ?
thanks

Gregster · 3 Apr 2018 at 21:01

No point really, unless you want to mess with colour options or set Performance over GFX. In 3D settings set "prefer max performance" for example. You can get a bit more performqance from Afterburner etc and worth doing if frames are a bit lower than you wanted.

ShiWarrior · 3 Apr 2018 at 21:35

thanks Gregster, best leave it then i guess

Bubo · 4 Apr 2018 at 13:12

What about the ambient occlusion setting in the Nvidia panel? This seems to default to OFF, does this overide any in game setting? Seems a bit odd this would default to off as I thought ambient occlusion was a pretty good effect if you card can handle it.

FlyingFish · 4 Apr 2018 at 18:39

http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_5.html

Dirk Diggler · 4 Apr 2018 at 21:00

Set digital vibrance above 50, I prefer 63 and I also tweak the gamma to +2.

I feel it makes the colours punchier.

Amatsubu · 4 Apr 2018 at 21:52

I only use the control panel to override in-game vsync if it doesn't work as it should.

Rroff · 4 Apr 2018 at 21:57

Bubo said:
What about the ambient occlusion setting in the Nvidia panel? This seems to default to OFF, does this overide any in game setting? Seems a bit odd this would default to off as I thought ambient occlusion was a pretty good effect if you card can handle it.

It is a brute force attempt to put Ambient Occlusion into games that don't have it - it won't over-ride as in turn off AO implemented in a game - potentially can conflict with those that do if AO is on both in the nVidia control panel and ingame but nVidia should have taken care of that in the application profiles.

The only game I remember forcing it on being useful was Skyrim and even then it had mixed results unless you used some additional mods to remove the weird affect it could have around rocks sometimes especially in foggy weather.