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01-31-08, 01:26 PM | #76 |
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What Exactly Did You Do To Turn It Off,well It Shows Auto On So I Cannot Turn It Off?
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01-31-08, 01:56 PM | #77 |
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If it's only showing auto and the box in the top left doesn't have a check mark in it, then it's already turned off.
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01-31-08, 10:27 PM | #78 |
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One thing I've noticed about Anti-aliasing with the 8800-series cards is that the effect goes away in bad weather (e.g. rain/fog) in all other weather states it works fine. Anyone else experience this?
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02-01-08, 07:02 AM | #79 |
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Transformation! Repost from an unresponsive thread.
The monster went into surgery tonight for the first stage of the conversion. Out came the mondo slow Athlon 64 3700+. Someone mentioned that a machine may be either processor-bound or graphics card-bound. How do you know? Well, by pure dumb luck I'm in a position to find out.
Configuration before: Motherboard, Asus A8N32-SLI DeLuxe. Processor, Athlon 64 3700+. Memory 2 gig go fast OCZ. Graphics, EVGA 7600GT. No overclocking on anything. This is no state of the art machine. It runs SH4 fine, wide freakin' open. 1152 x 864 millions of colors (that's Mac talk in case you want to pause to be impressed. I thought not) . External camera, looking at the sub, 19 fps. Not too shabby and very playable. Wouldn't want to see half that though, it would be nasty! I switched for that beautiful Opteron 175, no other changes. Outside view looking at the sub is now a solid 30/31 fps! So, was this computer graphics or processor bound? I'd say we have a solid case of choking on the processor there! What's that mean for any SLI tests I might have been able to make? I most likely would have said SLI didn't gain me much because my processor couldn't handle one graphics card, much less two! Results: Athlon 64 3700+ to Opteron 175 = 58% improvement in frame rate with the same 7600GT graphics card. Ouch. There goes a lot of seemingly rock hard conclusions about relative performance under SLI. Looks like a good processor might be necessary to see big improvements. I'm going away now to tear my computer apart again and install the 7900GS. Nothing can beat what I just did..........can it?
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02-01-08, 07:06 AM | #80 |
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Help, Mr Wizard! Help!
It's disaster time. Let's take a look at original configuration
EVGA 6500GT and Athlon 64 3700+ 19 FPS. Nice and playable but we always want better so... Opteron 175 plus 7600GT 29-32 fps. Much better!!! 58% improvement with the new processor. Can't wait to see the 7900 GS strut her stuff!!!!!!!!! (is that insipid enough?) Yup, you guessed it, one frame per second increase and funky stripes everywhere. This is a disaster! Any ideas? Rubini? Help?............ check out this sky: Oh, and the water. How do you explain that? Interior views look OK. Everything else looks good: text, photos, movies, etc. I can't explain it. Any ideas?
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02-01-08, 07:51 AM | #81 |
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I posted the cure for this in post 74 of this thread.
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02-01-08, 08:49 AM | #82 | |
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No joy
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Test results: I can fix the funkiness, although it grows on you after awhile Here's the orginal Rubini settings with no changes except for inserting the 7900GS card. This has 200000000: EA Strategy Games Anti-aliasing compatibility on. Well, that's a no-go. But we already knew that. Let's turn that EA compatibility off by unchecking the box: Looks like the stripes might be a bit more contrasty, but no joy in Mudville here. It's time to explore nHancer and find out what I can make worse. I'll spare all of you the gory details. Then! Normally nHancer just bulldozes (technical term) the game setting with its own. Infrequently this causes weirdness (another technical term). Checking this box uses your settings within the parameters set by the game! Looks promising, so: Yessssssssss! I have my sub back. Let's pop on that EA compatibility setting we thought was the problem to begin with: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeyes!!!!!! We're back to all of Rubini's gains using the EA compatibility and no tiger boat. Now my only problem is that I have no frame rate gain from my 7600GT and if I had two of them I'd SLI them and have better fps than the 7900GS. Why? Inquiries are in to EVGA.
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02-01-08, 09:21 AM | #83 | ||
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Hmmm. I'm sure I'm probably repeating the obvious, but I have had a similar case, so here goes- Check AS and AA filtering- make sure they are not set any higher then 2x. Anything above that results in strangeness (like a rainbow colored nav map W00T! ) Another thing is it could be tearing, so check your v-sync and make sure it's selected both in SH and in your Nvidia control panel (force on). I'm assuming you have the new 169 drivers from the website, right? What you could also be facing is a probable heat issue. I know my old 7800 did that kind of thing quite a bit when my cooling wasn't up to par. All things to keep in mind.
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02-01-08, 10:08 AM | #84 |
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Nope, 4x multi-sampling works fine. FPS also went from 30 to 45 to 52 with Photoshop running in the background! All screenshots were at that setting. One failed test from someone else's video follies:
OK, I added the Yellow Submarine. All together now! We all live in a yellow sumarine.....
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02-01-08, 10:58 AM | #85 |
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Ah yes, Peter Max at his best!
Pretty kewl graphics when video cards start their slow spiral of death...:p |
02-13-08, 07:13 PM | #86 | |
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Then when I bought my new rig with twin 8800GTs I still have the crappy wave shimmer/jaggies in the distance, as well as now with SH4 I have a HALO around my sub. |
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02-14-08, 03:47 AM | #87 |
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Yeah, I have that luminus white halo at night and just can't get rid of it. Bloody annoying and looks terrible, almost looks as if the subs been lit up with a flare.
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Wish I would have thought of that before I built this system...but at the time I wasnt playing SH3 anymore Needless to say my next PC will have ATI card(s). So basically there is no cure for the distant "shimmering/jaggy water"? I tried the recommended optimizations here and it still looked poor. I even tried Supersampling (and did not notice a huge fps hit).... looked the same to me. Or is SSAA 4X4 and Supersampling with 4XAA different? EDIT: Ooops...reread your post rubini and forgot to set the EA strategy game mode ....need to try that next. |
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02-18-08, 01:26 PM | #90 |
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Just a thought: have you tried using just one card and NOT trying to run SH4 in SLI?? I have a single Nvidea 8800GTX 768Mb and have never had a problem with Jaggies or the other problems mentioned.
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