graphics settings for sh3

[PapaG39]

I have a very good computer & the X1900xt graphics card.
My main game was Il2 & the game play & graphics are just stunning.

SH3 is fine graphics wise & game play is very smooth. In GWX the game play is smooth, but the graphics in certain areas are very poor. Brown sky/water & boat at early evening. however this changes as the evening progresses & gets a more normal. I think when they changed from the standard sh3 cd setup they made some things better & some things worse. I think the graphics in the oiginal were fine, but some people just have to see if they can change things for the better. God bless em for trying...

Anyway, as far as the graphics..If your other games are fine then just leave it alone & live with it. or you can put everything to max & then back down a small setting at a time until it gets as good as it is going to get.

With all of that water to render this game is very hard on the cpu.. taxed to the max I guess you could say...

[She-Wolf]

Well thank you Papa, I will assume it is the game and not me then. I guess the underwater shots I have seen of other people's SH3 games might have been in taken in clearer water. I have never seen my boot under water as it is too 'black' to find it, though I can see underneath just fine in the game Dangerous Waters.

The sky in the day time is fine too, if the weather is good - fluffy white clouds and blue sky, but at night - not so good. but I can live with it!

[andylegate]

If I remember right, you can adjust the water clarity in SH3 Commander.......

I'm using a Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 (256 MB DDR built on to it) and the latest driver from Nvidia (Forceware v 163.71).
My card is VERY old compared to many. But at the same time, I rarely notice any problems with the graphics and I can see underwater just fine, to a point: you can't see very far underwater and at night, which would be normal anyways.

[She-Wolf]

Andy, I have GWX but not SH3 commander. If having it means I would have to uninstall.reinstall, I won't bother, but otherwise... where do I get it from and is it expensive?

[andylegate]

oh wow, surprised nobody has responded to you yet about it.

No, you don't have to uninstall GWX before install ing SH3 commander!

And it's FREEEEEEE.

You can get it from here:

http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/products.html

[KrvKpt. Falke]

Turn off these two things:

texture filtering - anisotropic mip filter optimisation
texture filtering - anisotropic sample optimisation

These optimisations are increasing performance but decreasing quality.
I am playing on gf 6600 gt (worse than yours) with these two disabled.

I am not sure about this one:

sli performance mode - single GPU

cause i dont have sli, but if you have two graphic cards in sli mode shouldnt this setting be changed to "multi GPU" or something?

Are you using 163.xx series drivers? Cause i was using them and image quality in sh3 was very bad even with antialiasing and anizotropic filtering enabled (and i had random crashes to desktop) so i decided to go back to old 91.47 (from september or october 2006) and - they are much much better.

[She-Wolf]

ahh, right Andy - thank you

KrvKpt. Falke I will change the settings as you suggest, check the GPU setting, though I would have thought Nvidia settings would have taken care of that automatically when I enabled SLI- but I will give it a go. I am almost certainly using the latest nvidia driver as I recently had to reformat, so I will see if I can get the older series and put that on. Thank you for your help. I shall have a go at it tomorrow.