Okay.. so my new graphics card just arrived, I put it in, installed the drivers, works great. I am just tinkering with the settings now, and I'm just wondering about a few settings 1. Is anisotropic really needed? I hear that it is really resource heavy and may slow down my games. If it is needed, what should I set it to? 2x, 4x, or 8x? and 2. What setting should I have my antialiasing on? 2x, 2xQ, 4x, or 8x? It is not a great graphics card, but its the best one that would work in my system that I could find, so I'm looking to save as much resources as possible, while making it still look fairly good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering Sounds like a good performance boost to me, but I'm no expert.
First of all what are you full system specs. RAM Processer Graphics Card What game are you trying to run. The I can tell you the settings you should use.
BTK, okay, but don't run off when I tell you my crappy system specs. RAM - 768mb PC2700 CPU - Intel Celeron (lol) GPU - nVidia GeForce FX 5500OC PCI I would have gotten a better gfx card, but one, I diddn't want to waste money on such a crappy system, and 2, all my system had was PCI and no AGP or PCIe so there wasn't much of a choice. Better than intel integrated though The only games I want to play are Warrock, which you've probably never heard of because its still in beta and such.
I wouldn't push your system then anything more then the bare minimum. Damn, a Celeron? I feel for you.
yes then it's a new game and as you know new games need good pc's (which your isn't, sorry but it's true) my advice...make everything the lowet settings... NO aa no filtering or billinear if any...and low other stuff...
Actually I can play it with everything on high at 50-60FPS I'm not looking for settings to play the game on, I'm just looking for if anisotropic filtering would be worth the resorces, and if antialiasing 2x is as good as I would need. But I've screwed around with it and turned off anisotropic, and set antialiasing to 2x and it looks good. So i'm good
current celerys run with a 533 mhz FSB... if your motherboard can run at 1333mhz FSB... 150% overclock... good cooling required
