ATI USERS ONLY: Control Panel Settings or In-game settings?

SFI · Aug 23, 2003, 12:29 AM

*repost* i post now in the correct forum topic area

i was just wondering, when playing games, do you guys turn down the bars to high eprformance in the ati control panel and just up the detail settings in the games themselves when playing? or the other way around? i am not talking about AA or AF, just the other things like texture preference and mipmap detail. What gives best performance without a noticeable drop in quality? screenshots of your settings in your control panels would be appreciated, opinions too thanks.

SFI · Aug 23, 2003, 01:52 AM

bump please respond

jonmcc33 · Aug 23, 2003, 02:03 AM

**Trunks0** · Aug 23, 2003, 03:29 AM

I personally leave the texture setting at highest quallity and Mipmap at high and that gives me good performance from what I have found in all my games

In game settings I adjust accordingly if needed and if it I REALLY REALLY need the performance I drop the ATI control panel settings to high performance for both the texture and mipmap settings

kakarot · Aug 23, 2003, 08:13 AM

With your setup you best be putting everything on Max, in the control panel and in game

I haven't found a game the 9800 can't play like that

friskyolive · Aug 23, 2003, 08:41 AM

I play all my games in with max mip map and texture preferences and 4xaa 16x qaulity af.

{D0om}DEATH · Aug 23, 2003, 09:49 AM

i set my settings in the control panel usualy have max detail on the in game settings.

OpenGL:
2X AA
16x AF
Texture: Highest Quality
Mipmap: Highest Quality

D3D
2x AA
16x AF
Texture: Highest Quality
Mipmap: Highest Quality

Raysusan · Aug 23, 2003, 09:51 AM

i just leave it at default

Pikachuman · Aug 23, 2003, 11:27 AM

I keep the texture/mip map level at high quality. I vary the rest depending on the game.

TheManko · Aug 23, 2003, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonmcc33

DON'T PLAY WITH THOSE SETTINGS!!!! If you do the textures will be resized to a smaller resolution! I just tried out Bloodrayne with those settings for the first time and it took me about 2 secs to see the diffrence.

Aug 23, 2003, 01:58 PM

I play all my games as such...

1280x1024x32
AA @ 4X
AF @ Application Preference

Texture Preference all the way to the right and same with Mipmap Detail Level.

In games I MAX everything as well. I set it and forget it...

The_KELRaTH · Aug 23, 2003, 02:07 PM

I just leave my settings at:
x4AA x8AF Perf
Max Texture and Mipmap
Vsync On

If there was a Per game settings option in the drivers as with Mac users I'd probably be more picky - hell if there was a key to adjust on the fly while iingame I'd probably alter per map!

PamG · Aug 23, 2003, 09:52 PM

I use something I read in Maximum PC.
Set AF to 8X and then enable application preference.
This allows the game, well the newer games, to pick what it needs to enhance texture with a minimal framerate hit.
I have Vsynch on and mip map and texture are set for quality.
AA is custom and is at 4X though it really depends on how the game responds. I won't take it higher but I will set it lower.

jonmcc33 · Aug 23, 2003, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TheManko
DON'T PLAY WITH THOSE SETTINGS!!!! If you do the textures will be resized to a smaller resolution! I just tried out Bloodrayne with those settings for the first time and it took me about 2 secs to see the diffrence.

LOL! Considering Bloodrayne isn't even out yet for the PC (September 9th) that's a real freakin' laugher.

Unless you're talking about the demo, but perhaps you should state that. I didn't notice any problems at all with the demo. I play ALL of my games at those settings and never have issues.

Whatever floats your boat (as obvious throughout this thread) but don't yell that I shouldn't play with these settings. I've used them for over a year now with my Radeon 9700 Pro.

Hanners · Aug 24, 2003, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonmcc33
LOL! Considering Bloodrayne isn't even out yet for the PC (September 9th) that's a real freakin' laugher.

Err... I've had the full game of BloodRayne for several months now.

I'm really not sure why you'd want the texture/mipmap sliders at high performance - It does give a reasonable speed boost but also looks reasonably ugly.

Shark · Aug 24, 2003, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hanners
Err... I've had the full game of BloodRayne for several months now.

the game has not been released yet in the U.S

Hanners · Aug 24, 2003, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shark
the game has not been released yet in the U.S

Ahh, okay... Well, it's been out for some time in the UK, and no doubt elsewhere, which explains it all.

Star_Hunter · Aug 24, 2003, 11:00 AM

UK most of the time has a game after the us....guess not in this case

Vengeance · Aug 24, 2003, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shark
the game has not been released yet in the U.S

I bought mine in the US! Fry's Outpost.com has the euro version

This game has been out for about a year on the PC overseas, PS2/XBox/CG and the Mac here in the states.
I wonder why its taking so long to release it for the PC here?
And the euro version works fine in my PC

Clockwork · Aug 25, 2003, 01:06 AM

Here's my settings

(my Direct3d settings are virtually identical)

BTW, I have had Bloodrayne for quite some time now also. If I need better performance I adjust the resolution of my games, I don't lower the quality in the control panel.

Clockwork · Aug 25, 2003, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonmcc33

Whatever floats your boat (as obvious throughout this thread) but don't yell that I shouldn't play with these settings. I've used them for over a year now with my Radeon 9700 Pro.

What I think people are saying is that those settings significantly lower IQ. You're not even using the potential of your graphics card doing that. You might as well have an older ATI card (or nVidia based product)...

Pe-Te · Aug 25, 2003, 02:11 AM

On games that let you set Aniso, you should use the game option and leave the control panel to "application prefrence". Thats the only way to get FULL trilinear filtering in UT2k3.. Forced QAF gives the tri+bilinear hybrid.

Just use RadLinker to set those settings for every game so you wont have to constantly change them. My "normal" settings are Forced 6xAA+16QAF [ on games that dont support aniso setting IN GAME ], highest quality + vsync allways off, trueform application prefrence.

So to answer the ORIGINAL question : IN GAME SETTINGS.

Pe-Te

TheMonkeyBoyz · Aug 25, 2003, 03:48 AM

For BOTH OpenGL and D3D, I have it set to the following:

Texture Preference: HIGH QUALITY
Mipmap Detail Level: HIGH QUALITY
TRUEFORM(tm): ALWAYS OFF

I usually set AA and Aniso to APPLICATION PREFERENCE

I have VSYNC = ALWAYS ON unless I get stuttering, then turn it to ALWAYS OFF so I don't have to worry about triple buffering issues, etc.

Qb2k5 · Aug 25, 2003, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Raysusan
i just leave it at default

I think I might start doing this also.I noticed on allot of new demos like Breed,Tron 2.0,Midnight Club2 and others all have an option to enable AF and AA settings now.But i still will force vsync on to get that baby back console smoothness!!

Animotion · Aug 25, 2003, 07:46 AM

90% Of games i run at 4 aa 16 af full detail

10% i run at 2 aa 16 af both these options give perfectly playable framerates for me.

CHIPS · Aug 25, 2003, 02:02 PM

The fps differents for the game I played, when running between quality and performance, is very small. I don't think it is worth it to set the details to performance.

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SFI Radeon R200 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 70	ATI USERS ONLY: Control Panel Settings or In-game settings? repost i post now in the correct forum topic area i was just wondering, when playing games, do you guys turn down the bars to high eprformance in the ati control panel and just up the detail settings in the games themselves when playing? or the other way around? i am not talking about AA or AF, just the other things like texture preference and mipmap detail. What gives best performance without a noticeable drop in quality? screenshots of your settings in your control panels would be appreciated, opinions too thanks. __________________ \| P4 3.0C GHZ @ 3.2 GHZ, Stock Voltage, 215 MHZ FBS, 816 MHZ Bus Speed \| 1 GB TwinX Corsair PC3700 DDR Ram (512x2), 3-4-4-8-8, 2.75 Volts \| Asus P4P800 Deluxe Board \| Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro @ 421/724, 1.75 Volts \| Hercules Fortisimo III 7.1 Sound Card \| Two 36.6 GB Western Digital Hard Drives @ 10,000 RPM on Raid0 Array \| Thermaltake Purepower 420 Watt PSU\| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 \| Sony Dru-510A DVD+/- RW Burner \| Acer 16x DVD-Rom \| Chenming XPider Case \|

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Aug 23, 2003, 03:29 AM	#4
Trunks0 Keeping an open mind Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Posts: 21,417	I personally leave the texture setting at highest quallity and Mipmap at high and that gives me good performance from what I have found in all my games In game settings I adjust accordingly if needed and if it I REALLY REALLY need the performance I drop the ATI control panel settings to high performance for both the texture and mipmap settings __________________ -Trunks0 not speaking for all and if I am wrong I never said it. (plz note that is meant as a joke) System: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Pro - AMD Ryzen 7 5800x - Noctua NH-D15S chromax.Black - 32gb of G.Skill Trident Z NEO - Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD±RW - Samsung 850 Evo 250Gib - 4TiB Seagate - XFX MERC 308 Radeon RX 6600XT - Creative AE-5 Plus - Windows 10 64-bit

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Aug 23, 2003, 02:03 AM	#3
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Aug 23, 2003, 08:13 AM	#5
kakarot Radeon Caribbean Islands Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 4,041	With your setup you best be putting everything on Max, in the control panel and in game I haven't found a game the 9800 can't play like that

Aug 23, 2003, 08:41 AM	#6
friskyolive Looking down on you! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario Posts: 7,458	I play all my games in with max mip map and texture preferences and 4xaa 16x qaulity af. __________________ See how his nose twitches? Something smells about this, and it's not stinking clouds from his furry backside! Quote from Minsc. Overstep your boundaries, and look beyond your scope of vision.

Aug 23, 2003, 09:49 AM	#7
{D0om}DEATH Radeon R600 Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 629	i set my settings in the control panel usualy have max detail on the in game settings. OpenGL: 2X AA 16x AF Texture: Highest Quality Mipmap: Highest Quality D3D 2x AA 16x AF Texture: Highest Quality Mipmap: Highest Quality

Aug 23, 2003, 09:51 AM	#8
Raysusan Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,101	i just leave it at default

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Aug 23, 2003, 11:27 AM	#9
Pikachuman Radeon R520 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Trinidad & Tobago Posts: 452	I keep the texture/mip map level at high quality. I vary the rest depending on the game.

Aug 23, 2003, 01:58 PM	#11
solofly Posts: n/a	I play all my games as such... 1280x1024x32 AA @ 4X AF @ Application Preference Texture Preference all the way to the right and same with Mipmap Detail Level. In games I MAX everything as well. I set it and forget it...

Aug 23, 2003, 02:07 PM	#12
The_KELRaTH 42 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Outside looking in Posts: 2,913	I just leave my settings at: x4AA x8AF Perf Max Texture and Mipmap Vsync On If there was a Per game settings option in the drivers as with Mac users I'd probably be more picky - hell if there was a key to adjust on the fly while iingame I'd probably alter per map!

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Aug 23, 2003, 09:52 PM	#13
PamG Radeon R600 Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 677	I use something I read in Maximum PC. Set AF to 8X and then enable application preference. This allows the game, well the newer games, to pick what it needs to enhance texture with a minimal framerate hit. I have Vsynch on and mip map and texture are set for quality. AA is custom and is at 4X though it really depends on how the game responds. I won't take it higher but I will set it lower.

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Aug 25, 2003, 01:06 AM	#20
Clockwork Radeon Arctic Islands Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 14,913	Here's my settings (my Direct3d settings are virtually identical) BTW, I have had Bloodrayne for quite some time now also. If I need better performance I adjust the resolution of my games, I don't lower the quality in the control panel.

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Aug 25, 2003, 02:11 AM	#22
Pe-Te WoW Addict Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: FunLand Posts: 3,640	On games that let you set Aniso, you should use the game option and leave the control panel to "application prefrence". Thats the only way to get FULL trilinear filtering in UT2k3.. Forced QAF gives the tri+bilinear hybrid. Just use RadLinker to set those settings for every game so you wont have to constantly change them. My "normal" settings are Forced 6xAA+16QAF [ on games that dont support aniso setting IN GAME ], highest quality + vsync allways off, trueform application prefrence. So to answer the ORIGINAL question : IN GAME SETTINGS. Pe-Te __________________ * Intel i7 920 - Asus P6T D V2 - 6x2GB Corsair 1600 DDR3 - One of those new graphics card or two - 2x SuperTalent 64GB SSD RAID 0 * Windows 7 x64 Home Premium - ATI 9.12 Drivers * XBOX 360 Elite - PS3 Slim - Wii with Sony VPL HW10 1080p Projector and 100" Screen

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Aug 25, 2003, 03:48 AM	#23
TheMonkeyBoyz Banned Join Date: May 2003 Location: United States Posts: 13,989	For BOTH OpenGL and D3D, I have it set to the following: Texture Preference: HIGH QUALITY Mipmap Detail Level: HIGH QUALITY TRUEFORM(tm): ALWAYS OFF I usually set AA and Aniso to APPLICATION PREFERENCE I have VSYNC = ALWAYS ON unless I get stuttering, then turn it to ALWAYS OFF so I don't have to worry about triple buffering issues, etc.

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Aug 25, 2003, 07:46 AM	#25
Animotion O_o Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Miho Maeshima's Breasts Posts: 1,259	90% Of games i run at 4 aa 16 af full detail 10% i run at 2 aa 16 af both these options give perfectly playable framerates for me.

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Aug 25, 2003, 02:02 PM	#26
CHIPS The Overmind Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: SILENT HILL Posts: 11,061	The fps differents for the game I played, when running between quality and performance, is very small. I don't think it is worth it to set the details to performance. __________________ Athlon II X4 635 2.9Ghz / HIS HD6850 1G DDR5 / Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H / G.Skill Ripjaws 4X2Gb DDR3 1666mhz Playstation 3 40G / Resistance 1 / Silent Hill: Homecoming / Dead Space

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