ATi setup help
 

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:

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.

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

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

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.

ATI Catalyst tweak guide.

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.

Thank you for all your help:up: