#Half life 1 portal gif texture driver#
#Half life 1 portal gif texture Pc#
#Half life 1 portal gif texture plus#

I only recommend using Allow and a negative value when using supersampling, which we'll go over later. This will usually deliver the best image quality all things considered as you won't get shimmering.

Set 'Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias' to Clamp, and leave LOD bias at 0.

Disable Shadercache since it might cause stuttering in some games.

Set your desired Power management mode (I prefer 'Prefer Maximum Performance' so that my GPU never downclocks when it shouldn't).

People with decent modern PCs should set texture filtering to High Quality, and just enable High Quality ambient occlusion.

You should set some basic parameters in the global profile.

#Half life 1 portal gif texture Pc#

With my current PC (see my system specs) I obviously can't really measure a difference. The last time I felt an actual impact was in Skyrim using a GTX 680. Speaking of performance, I can't speak for the performance impact of forcing ambient occlusion. But then again, supersampling is very hard to run. Modern games always have their own ambient occlusion implementation, although they could really use the supersampling because modern games are more aliased than ever before. Why don't these tweaks work in newer games? I suppose NVIDIA decided that compatibility isn't needed.

#Half life 1 portal gif texture plus#

Plus I hate aliasing more than almost anything else. Nonetheless, these tweaks are a primary reason as to why I stick with NVIDIA graphics cards many of the best games ever made are DX9, and I like to make them look as good as possible. There are very few exceptions it is possible to force ambient occlusion into Metro Redux using this method (a DX11 game), and it does improve image quality ever so slightly. Unfortunately these tweaks only work in pre-DX10 games, the ambient occlusion probably only working in DX9 (and maybe a few OpenGL titles). Whereas MSAA is only good for removing aliasing on geometry, MLAA/SMAA/FXAA targets only shader aliasing but they're good for nothing, TAA is a good all around method but still not on supersampling's level (though it's not demanding at all so there is no good reason for MLAA/SMAA/FXAA to exist anymore). The filters it applies are far more complex and effective at eliminating aliasing, and it gets rid of all kinds of aliasing whether it's geometry, shader, aliasing on transparent textures, temporal, you name it. This is the principle behind downsampling, supersampling's infant brother simulate a larger resolution by rendering the image at a larger resolution and then scaling it back down with a rescaling filter (Lanczos being the best I know of, used by GeDoSaTo).īut supersampling doesn't just use a simple rescaling filters. You see, if we could play games at a large enough resolution (5k or higher from my experience) then aliasing wouldn't be an issue. Supersampling is the ultimate anti-aliasing method, and also the most demanding.

Shadow of Chernobyl, and numerous others. Some of the biggest offenders include The Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed: Unity, Crysis 3, Mass Effect series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. These games, even at 2560 x 1440 and often even at 4k, are so aliased that all objects will appear like distorted raw polygons or blobs with moving, white jaggy edges. They attempt to blur out aliased edges after the scene is already fully rendered and fully aliased. Most games today are heavily aliased even with their anti-aliasing setting maxed out, because they only have highly ineffective, overly simple post-process AA such as MLAA, FXAA, or SMAA. And aliasing? It can make an otherwise great looking game look horrible. Without ambient occlusion, games look so much less realistic as light no longer seems to have much of an effect on the environment. The tweaks I'm going over in this thread are forcing ambient occlusion and supersampling into games. Many people aren't aware that Inspector has a plethora of options for tweaking image quality. Like an expanded version of that section of NVIDIA Control Panel.

#Half life 1 portal gif texture driver#

NVIDIA Inspector is a tool for editing driver settings on NVIDIA GPUs (as well as monitoring and overclocking, like RivaTuner and its derivatives). After seeing the response to this post of mine, I have decided to make this thread.