Your settings for Nvidia control panel

[ish1]

Hey guys.

The 3d settings in the nvidia control panel seem really confusing to me. Currently i leave them on the default setting.

I just wanted to know what settings are you guys using to provide the best performance for your graphics card(s)?

Cheers

 

[opethdisciple]

Interesting question.

I leave it default and just turn on adaptive vsync.

 

[eddiew]

Default everything for me. Games know what options they can support, so it doesn't make much sense to be customising global settings

Only thing I might force is vsync if for some reason a game doesn't have the option for it.

 

[ish1]

So it's best to leave everything on default? all these settings must do something to improve the image quality or fps of certain games right? i might have a play around and see if i can get any performance increase from my cards.

 

[Rroff]

These days theres less implications from having less optimal settings - I still usually change multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration to single display performance mode for best results unless I'm using a multi display/gpu (not necessarily SLI) setup and know a different setting helps.

Most applications these days work well with the default settings and/or fully implement support for application-controlled, etc. so you only really need to change those via application profiles for older games that you know have an issue.

 

[Deceptor]

Default is fine, I may go in there to force a vsync mode or force SLI if a game doesn't support it natively (yet most worked fine with it forced, go figure).

 

[pgi947]

Just leave it be unless wanting to change sync options, do any extra sli work via nvinspector

 

[setter]

All i change is render ahead limit depending on the game and sometimes use adaptive vsync.

 

[varkanoid]

I too used to leave on default (gtx 770)

 

[James J]

Shader cache - on (disable if you get game crashes, otherwise it speeds up load times)
Triple buffering - off, gsync doesn't use it
Vsync - gsync (I own a gsync monitor, otherwise I'd use adaptive)
Power management - adaptive (pref max performance can avoid micro stutter when clocks change, but it also stops the cards from lowering to 2D clocks outside of games)
Ambient occlusion - OFF (dont enable this as it causes numerous graphical artifacts with games that simply don't support it, World of Warcraft being one of them)
Anisotropic filtering - application controlled (as this uses the optimised profiles instead of a forced method which is slower)
Trilinear optimisation - on (can't see a drop in IQ at all)
Negative LOD bias - clamp (better IQ, minimal hit to fps)
Anisotropic sample optimisation - off (causes shimmering, even when clamped)

 

[ish1]

Interesting how everyone has slightly different settings...There are so many configs i found online...Will definitely try them out to see if i can improve image quality and performance in some games.

 

[Daytrader]

Anisotropic filtering - application controlled (as this uses the optimised profiles instead of a forced method which is slower)

What about in older games like il2,gtl,gtr2 and nascar racing, that do not have a option like 2x 4x 8x 16x for Anisotropic filtering, they just have enable Anisotropic filtering, if i then use like 16x forced in nvidia 3d panel, will it be better ?

 

[James J]

What about in older games like il2,gtl,gtr2 and nascar racing, that do not have a option like 2x 4x 8x 16x for Anisotropic filtering, they just have enable Anisotropic filtering, if i then use like 16x forced in nvidia 3d panel, will it be better ?

For older games, best setting up a profile for each of them linking to their exe and just force it. The hit in framerate won't matter as much as it does in a more modern game and you'll have better IQ.

 

[Daytrader]

Thx for reply, you mean in nvidia 3D control panel, where you list the game or application, and then just change the things you want for that game ? i think thats what you mean dont you.