This Nvidia Control Panel option reserves a certain amount of your HDD and uses it to stream shaders. However, even adaptive fails to work sometimes so, when you think adaptive power mode isn’t enough, set it to Prefer Maximum performance. Prefer Maximum Performance allows the GPU to keep itself at a higher clock speed and the voltage usage will be maximum all the time even when the GPU is idle.Īdaptive is the best option for most video games. Adaptive allows the GPU to automatically reduce or increase power usage depending on GPU load. Optimal limits the power usage to a certain extent, which doesn’t allow the GPU to fully utilize itself. Players have three options to choose from, Optimal, Adaptive, and Prefer Maximum Performance. This option controls how much power the GPU can use while rendering frames. What it does is that it works on top of MSAA to improve anti-aliasing. This option works only for games with MSAA (multisample antialiasing) solution. This more of a player’s choice and has no impact on performance. This option allows players to limit or cap the maximum FPS the GPU can render for the game. This improves input latency and is quite useful for multiplayer games. Set it to “Ultra” and no frames will be buffered from the game. When set at “On”, only one frame in generated in advance reducing input latency to some extent. When off, the Frame Buffer works as usual. However, Frame Buffer introduces slight input latency which can be eliminated which “Low Latency Mode”. This technique renders a few frames for the game in advance to keep a steady experience with smooth FPS and consistent frame time. When rendering video games, there is a technique used called “Frame Buffer”. This doesn’t have much impact on the game’s visuals or performance so set it at “ALL”. CUDA GPUsĮvery Nvidia GPU has CUDA cores which are parallel compute units. Basically, use it on a case-to-case basis. However, Not every game requires this option to be enabled. With this option disabled, these alpha textures shimmer a lot when players move the camera. What it doesn’t is that it smooths out edges on so-called alpha textures which are textures such as fences and tree leaves. Anti-aliasing – TransparencyĪnti-aliasing – Transparency is only useful for older video games. These options rarely work for select video games. If the game totally lacks an AA option then select “Override application settings” but even that won’t help much. However, even that won’t do much in-game. In that case, set it to ” ‘Enhance application setting” and then the previously greyed out option below will become available and players need to select an option.
Only enable it if players find that in-game AA solution isn’t eliminating aliasing. Meaning, players don’t need to enable this option and should be set at “Application Controlled”. Anti-aliasing ModeĪll modern video games have TAA or Temporal anti-aliasing and that is enough to eliminate all in-game aliasing. This option helps in-game objects to blend against contrasting backgrounds.
This Nvidia Control Panel option is outdated which is only useful for video games that use MSAA or CSAA.
This AA solution isn’t a very good one and should be kept disabled. Anti-Aliasing – FXAAĮnabling this option will force FXAA anti-aliasing for the game you turn it on for. Wherever you mess with this setting, just set it to 16x as this setting has little to no performance impact. It’s rare that players will have to adjust this setting from the Control Panel for games like Horizon Zero Dawn as the in-game “Anisotropic Filtering” doesn’t work. Enabling Anisotropic Filtering eliminates this blur and makes those ground textures look crisp and clear. It is best to meddle with it in-game than in the Control Panel.Īs for what it does, if Anisotropic Filtering is disabled, players will notice that textures on the ground are blurred.
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Anisotropic Filtering is a common graphical option found in PC video games.