ATi setup help

[nikbear]

I've got a Pentium4, 3.06 and 2 gig of ram,the graphics card is a x700 ati thing(soon to be replaced:up: )how do I setup the catalyst for the best performance for what I've got:hmm: Temperol AA,on or off?Anisotropic filtering,high or low?catalyst AI,ON OR OFF?mipmap,high or low:hmm: do I enable adaptive AA or not?vertical refresh???????what the hell does that do:doh: any help would be greatly appreciated and any ideas for a good 512K graphics card thats not to expensive would also help.thank you for your time:yep:

[jazman]

I'm just speaking generally here, I'm sure there are folks out there with similar h/w (that ain't me).

Just crank it up AA and Aniso Filtering until you can't stand it no more. I don't mess with fancy options (like special ATI AI ???), I've seen them mess up visuals AND performance on other games.

[nikbear]

Thank you for your help.anybody else,help would be greatly appreciated;)

[Capt. Shark Bait]

best you can do is to mess around with things and find a good balance. with a 700 i doubt you'll be able to max out everything and still get playable framerates, rather than a slideshow. i had a 850XT and had to keep some setting a bit low in SH4

[jazman]

BTW, the vertical refresh setting, when it is "off", means that you'll get a tearing or rip across the picture when the scene is changing quickly (such as a fast pan). Turning it on removes that effect, but maxes your frame rate at the monitor refresh rate. It looks better, but it might be slower.

[Paajtor]

ATI Catalyst tweak guide (http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html).

My settings, running SH3 at 1024x768/32bit/85Hz, on a X850XT:

- Anti-Aliasing x4 (temporal AA off)
- Anisotr.filtering x16 (makes sea look better at distance)
- Catalyst AI disabled
- mipmap-level > quality
- vert.refresh > off, unless
- Adaptive AA enabled, quality (makes fences and wires on your sub look better)

Using your card, I'd probably set mipmap-detail level to performance, instead of quality.

[nikbear]

Thank you for all your help:up: