Nvidia tweaks to SH3/SH4

[TopcatWA]

After a bit of fiddling around I eventually found how to get rid of it.
Very simple -at the top of the nVidia Control Panel screen you see
a toolbar with

'3D Settings' tab next to 'File, Edit and View', from the top left CP Window.
Simply uncheck 'Show SLI Visial Indicators'.


I often wonder why the most simplest of tasks are sometimes the most diffiicult to do

Cheers

[Captain Dave]

I probably turned that OFF years ago and forgot all about it. Don't get old, man.

its off topic but im upgrading my system and thinking about the video card (i have 1 8800gt 512mb) so can someone tell me why anyone "needs" more than one video card? nobody has every given me a good answer except to say "you just do" which to me only means its because everyone else does it.

skip the bench marks and impressing the boys bit but really, i've seen single card rigs work great and i dont see any benefit to running 2 or even 3 cards when one good medium to high end card is cheaper?

i've never had a single card not do everything i could ask of it so whats the point having more cards other than lightening your wallet? what am i missing here?

[Arclight]

It's for the ultra-high crowd; Multi-GPU setups scale better at high resolutions. If you want to run everything at the max possible resolution, with all bells and whistles + Super Sampling AA & 16xAF... well, at least for the dual/triple high-end card setups; there are more sensible applications:

If you have a motherboard that provides the needed 32 PCI-E lanes, SLI/Crossfire doesn't have to be expensive. Just get 2 9800GTs, and your performance will come close to or equal a GTX275/285, for less money.

The main drawback is the entry price; powerfull PSU for 2 cards and MB capable of full SLI/Crossfire (those 32 lanes). Your electric bill will suffer too.

I agree though that 2x GTX 295 (or even 2x GTX285) is just silly, and very costly. Just a matter of preference.

ok, so running 2 medium level cards brings you the performance of a high end card at less price but more power is used so your accessaries (psu, mobo, and case cooling) must all be beefed up.

now i understand it better, and yes thats what i was thinking about. when i see them get 2 or 3 of those high end cards. to me it was pointless for anyone to spend that much $ unless you get some great reward from it. i guess if your running a 36" or higher monitor then maybe it could make a difference but not something i think is good for the smaller desktop monitors.

i could build 2 or maybe 3 high end computers with med-high end single video cards for what i see them spending on those multi high end video card rigs.

sorry about getting off topic i just figured you guys were the ones to ask

[TopcatWA]

I have another question on SLI setups.
Is anyone out there using the latest nHanser 2.5.1 (64-Bit) & getting good graphics & frame rate when playing SHIV?
I have tried this with SLI enabled & cannot set it up with recommended
settings from posts on this topic & cannot find in this version anything suitable.
I've got the latest nVidia & framework drivers (64-Bit) but keep on getting
compatabilty errors in the Windows/Systems32/NvApps.xml files -
error in document (838, 47).
When I do a search for this document, nothing comes up in relevant.xml file.
Game runs ok using the nVidia Control panel settings with SLI enabled using Capt. Dave's settings without running nHanser but with it running on similar settings doesn't improve things especially the frame rate.

Cheers

[Arclight]

It was working fine (nHancer 2.5.1 64b on Win7), but now it doesn't start, giving the error you described. Seems like some Windows-update screwed compatibility, could try rolling back.

[seaB]

SH4 main menu video settings set at highest level did not make a great picture for the game; mainly there was jagged edges.

I just tried nHancer yesterday.
I first thought I don't want to choose "Global" because that will affect all my other various PC game video settings.
I just want to set it for SH4.
I'll went straight to making a nHancer SH4 Profile.
I could not get it to work and thought this nHancer advise is rubbish.

I then tried using the Nvidia Control Panel > 3D Settings > "Manage 3D Settings"
or
"Use the advanced 3d image settings" > "take me there" >"Global Settings" > tweaked it = SH4 has NO Jaggies anymore.

I thought if that works so must nHancer.
I reset Nvidia 3D settings to 'Let the 3D application decide".
I opened nHancer.
I used the Global settings as described by #1 post and it worked perfectly = SH4 no more ugly jaggies.
The graphics are now very exciting!

I think it is very important in this discussion to include what size you pc monitor + resolution, video card etc, is
so no doubt can be put on poster's worked or not worked replies = mainly eliminating jaggies.
I think I only read 2 posts in this long 12 page #282 post thread that mentioned monitor size / resolution.
I was beginning to think that it could only work for smaller sized monitors therefore lower resolutions.
I read somewhere that SH4's native resolution / what this game was optimized for is something like 1080 x 768.
It has to get enlarged / scaled-up to play on larger monitors which causes the jagged edges.

My monitor is 22inch - native resolution is 1680 x 1050.
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz.
2 GBs RAM
Video Card - Asus EN 9500 GT OC - 500MB RAM.

This nHancer works on my system.
A bit of a nuisance though having to install the .Net Framework 3.5 beforehand that nHancer needs to work.
I think modern Nvidia driver with tweaked Global settings works just as good too with my PC specs.

[java`s revenge]

Hi,
I come back with an old problem. Tried a long time the settings of
the first post. But i always got a black screen with sh3 when i started it.
I altere the aa setting to application and that worked. But then i got
a jaggied horizon.

Now i have tried aa supersampling 4x4 and that gives the solution
for me for a correct horizion. But now i have a golfball sun. (flat)

When i use shift page/up the sun glows but the jaggied horizon comes back.

My specs
Geforce 260gtx
driver 195.62

[Arclight]

Few thoughts:

-4x multisampling is the max that will work without side-effects
-Be sure to disable "gamma correction" in nHancer/Nvidia CP.

Make sure the profile is active if you make these changes in a game-specific profile!

[java`s revenge]

My opion is that sh3 and sh4 has been thrown on one pile.

This sticky had to be seperatly made for sh3 / sh4.

No, that doesn`t work, get the black screen again.