Anisotropic filtering

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 07 Sep 2006, 00:46

I've seen a screenshot somewhere comparing Spring with anistropic on and off. But I've got no setting for this in my config, and the nvidia control panel is such a mess with all its profiles and crap.... eh... so, how do you go about turning this on?

el_matarife · Post by **el_matarife** » 07 Sep 2006, 07:02

If you are running the new Forceware 90 series with the control panel, check the screenshot in this Anandtech article http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2774&p=2 where it says Manage 3D Settings. On that panel, under the global tab, change Anisotropic Filtering from application control to whatever aniso setting you can run without crippling your performance too much. I think the first few levels like 2 and 4x of aniso are pretty "cheap" performance wise on most modern cards, so feel free to crank it up at least that much. You're running some model of 7900 or 7800 right? On that, you can probably feel free to crank it up to 16x with no problems. Just turn it off if it slows you down in other games. I'd also suggest turning off the optimizations because I think those are the settings that make image quality compromises for faster performance. You could set up a profile for Spring, but that's a little more in depth and I don't have a PC with an Nvidia card running the Forceware 90 series right now, but I guess I could go install it if you'd like me to run you through that.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 07 Sep 2006, 09:14

still a setting in settings.exe would be better

hawkki · Post by **hawkki** » 07 Sep 2006, 13:53

refering to this? http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewt ... highlight=

And iirc next version of spring will have vsync and aniso defineable...

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 07 Sep 2006, 15:59

vsync is definable, but I have a very recent build and still no aniso settings are there.

I know about setting them in the nvidia cp, but it just seems like such a hackish method, and I'd have to go back in there every time I want to play something else that I have defining its own aniso level.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 07 Sep 2006, 17:24

can't you make application specific profiles in the nvidia cp?

AF · Post by AF » 07 Sep 2006, 18:58

I dont bother with profiles I just change global settings.

el_matarife · Post by **el_matarife** » 07 Sep 2006, 21:40

Tobi wrote:can't you make application specific profiles in the nvidia cp?

You can, but it's a longer walkthrough I think. I don't have a box with the new CP installed right now, but I'm fairly certain it involves the custom tab in the screenshot, making a new profile, pointing it at the Spring exe, and then setting up the aniso/AA/whatever.

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Anisotropic filtering

Anisotropic filtering