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Originally Posted by Periscope
Hi Rubini!
I followed your topics, both in the SH3 and SH4 section.
I'm glad that my clue was the doorway to success. 
I got the tip with nHancer from a german forum which is all about Flight Simulation.
In the case of FS9 and FSX, the G92 chipset also leads to flickering, etc. how I said.
The problem is that in the case of those two games, nHancer does only partly help...
On some rigs it fixes the problems very fast whether other people do have to check out all options in nHancer in a trial and error system... and some even don't get a nice result then.
However, I'm looking forward to your How To and I'm curious about your settings. Perhaps you add some comparison pictures? With / Without nHancer activated? Just an idea. 
I, myself ordered the PC HD3870 PCS yesterday because it is available to deliver - in opposition to my first choice; the Gainward card... I should have read your post earlier, then I would have kept my actual order. 
I think I have to agree with Davy Jones Footlocker, it was a personal choice: i had ATi cards for several years and never experienced driver problems, so I took her.
Perhaps I'll send her back to hell if your nHancer settings really kick-ass
Im able to return it within 14 days so show me what nHancer can do. 
Have a nice weekend!
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Hi Periscope,
The main settings when using nHancer (what is very easy to use) where you already start to see very good quality image are these:
- Just open the main nHancer page, check "Global settings", then in the AA modes check "Supersampling", then check 4x4 (the better one, quality like ATi cards "out of box", but huge FPS hit on Nvidia
) or 16xS (good FPS, quality at 80% IMO) or 32xS (huge FPS hit - but better than 4x4 -, quality at 90% IMO). All others AA options arenīt good for Sh3/SH4 and these poor ones are the unique at player disposable in the stock Nvidia drivers!
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- Then, also check AF at 8x or 16x. Run the game and look at the new quality of AA, mainly for middle "distant" ships and the sea surface. Notice that seems that forceware 169.04 runs better FPS (in this case) than the last WHQL 169.21.
- The others tweaks are just fine tunning and arenīt in truth so important.
Then to resume: nHancer shows to the player hidden AA modes on Nvidia drivers - which are standard on ATI cards - that really make huge difference in image quality for some games like SH3/4. Why?? Just becouse they inflict a huge FPS hit on Nvidia hardware!
IMHO, this is a true absurd!!
