Nvidia tweaks to SH3/SH4

[msalama]

A small but IMO important piece of info for anyone using the GeForce 7800 GS: use old drivers or you can't get the AA to "stick" in the game regardless of what you do! I found this out after reinstalling SH4 / RFB after a wee break, having meanwhile gotten me the most recent set of drivers from NVidia of course

I'm using v84.21 with nHancer now, and it all works magnifico again

[trojanfoe]

Hi all, I am having problem with the SH4 + U-boat missions in that it sometimes stutters then returns to the desktop for 30 secs and then returns to the game. The error message in the Windows Event Log indicates a driver error (not at the system right now, so cannot quote directly).

When I first installed SH4 I was getting this consistently within the Museum, particularly when I zoomed-in and strafed around the largest British warship. I followed the OPs suggestion and used the program he described to set-up the global nvidia settings and it went away. I have now started a mission and I am getting it periodically, so I guess this did not solve it completely.

My system: Windows 7 x64 (RC1 - build 7100), Dual Core E8400 (3Ghz), nVidia 9800 GTX, 6GB PC6400 RAM. No overclocking anywhere. Latest nVidia drivers from Windows Update (190.xx - .20 I think, maybe .02)

Does anyone else have this problem?

Cheers,
Andy

[trojanfoe]

Originally Posted by trojanfoe

Hi all, I am having problem with the SH4 + U-boat missions in that it sometimes stutters then returns to the desktop for 30 secs and then returns to the game. The error message in the Windows Event Log indicates a driver error (not at the system right now, so cannot quote directly).

When I first installed SH4 I was getting this consistently within the Museum, particularly when I zoomed-in and strafed around the largest British warship. I followed the OPs suggestion and used the program he described to set-up the global nvidia settings and it went away. I have now started a mission and I am getting it periodically, so I guess this did not solve it completely.

My system: Windows 7 x64 (RC1 - build 7100), Dual Core E8400 (3Ghz), nVidia 9800 GTX, 6GB PC6400 RAM. No overclocking anywhere. Latest nVidia drivers from Windows Update (190.xx - .20 I think, maybe .02)

Does anyone else have this problem?

Cheers,
Andy

I have now installed Windows 7 RTM (build 7600) and the latest nVidia drivers from www.nvidia.com (non-beta 190.62) and the problem persists. I am testing using the Museum and the only improvement is that the stuttering takes longer to kick-in and most times doesn't result in a temporary return to the desktop.

Anyone else seen this issue?

Cheers,
Andy

[TopcatWA]

This may be already posted elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find it as yet.
Has anyone who has an SLI setup on their PC played the game in SLI enabled mode?
If so what settings do you use & do you get good frame rate performance?
I have been playing the game (both SH3 & SH4) for quite awhile with my SLI setup disabled & using the nHanser setup, but now would like to try the SLI enabled setup to see what improvement I can get.
I am running the latest nVidia 8000 series drivers v.190.62 dated 21Aug09.
I have tried using the SLI Performance Mode 'force alternate frame rendering 2' setting which does increase the frame rate considerably (60-80fps) but using this setting displays the SLI performance band strip on the left hand side of the game screen which is annoying & when using the nVidia Global setting reduces the frame rate performance by half.
If there was a way of getting rid of the SLI band on the screen when using the forced setting it would be good.

Cheers

[Captain Dave]

Here's my settings. I'm running 2 EVGA 7600 GT cards in SLI, on a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mobo. A Opteron 185 dual core processor. 2 gig of memory. It's an old but good system. I run SH4 full tilt with no problems. A 22 inch wide screen set at 1680 x 1050. I haven't seen the SLI thing on the left side of the screen.


Anisotropic Filtering = Application controlled
Antialiasing - Gamma Correction = On
Antialiasing = SLI8x
Antialiasing - Transparency = Multisampling
Conformant Texture Clamp = use hardware
Error reporting = Off
Extension Limit = Off
Force Mipmaps = bilinear
Multi-Display/mixed-GPU acceleration = single display performance mode
Sli Performance mode = Force alternate frame rendering 2
Stereo display mode = Use verticle interlace monitor.
Texture filtering - Anisotropic mip filter optimization = Off
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization = On
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias = Clamp
Texture filtering = Quality
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization = On
Threaded optimization = On
Triple Buffering = Off
Vertical Sync = Use the 3D application setting

[TopcatWA]

Hi Captain Dave,

I have tried your settings but still get the SLI band on left of screen.

If anyone knows how to get rid of it, it would be appreciated.

Cheers

[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