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I do not understand your reply? no brain no pain???

What is it you mean??

greetz

StanEVO6

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AAAHHHHHH OK no offence.

just did not understand but now I do.............LOL

StanEVO6

LOL not offended at all. we are all race friends

Ive downloaded en installed Nhancer. must say.....looks great and the explenations are overwhelming. now I must start playing with it.

perhaps I judged to soon, sorry for that Jakg !!!!!!!

on page one of this thread Jakg put some links witch do not work here, is it my pc?
these links give us examples of how he did the settings in the Enhancer. can those examples be uploaded again?

Jakg and other specialists, what is wisdom?? do you guys use the modified nvidia drivers or the forceware ones. and is the latest driver always the best, since nvidia now almost every month updates there drivers?? with driver does the most for your nvidia system in your opinion??

thx again and see you some time on Blackwood in the fox

The images have dissapeared because the host i use, Bayimg.com, has dissapeared entirely, taking all the screenshots with it

I'll make some new ones in a little while.

I personally prefer the XtremeG modified drivers, usually with new cards (like yours), the best bet is to go for the newest ones, however the best driver for your card/operating system is an unknown. If you want to find the XtremeG drivers, click here.

EDIT - The link i posted is for XP, if you want Vista drivers go here.

What makes those XtremeG drivers better than NVidia drivers?

They are "tweaked" for performance, usually they have a (small) increase in performance. How, i'm not quite sure though.

Images Fixed, sorry about that.

THX Jakg.

installed drivers this morning (before you replied) 163.75 and installed nhancer.

used the settings you posted earlier and for now LFS looks great.

the only issue I have is that obect in the far distance only when you are driving are shiffering. they do not move in a steady way towards you.

I will sort this out.......THX for all the advises and Jakg....nhancer ROCKS!!!!!!! (fool a was)

Have you done all the settings (including AF, LOD and MIP Bias settings)?

If not, i don't know what to say to fix it.

You've got a PC that should murder LFS, you've got 768 MB of vRAM handy so you better be giving it lots of hi-res textures.

Quote from Stanevo6 :

THX Jakg.

installed drivers this morning (before you replied) 163.75 and installed nhancer.

used the settings you posted earlier and for now LFS looks great.

the only issue I have is that obect in the far distance only when you are driving are shiffering. they do not move in a steady way towards you.

I will sort this out.......THX for all the advises and Jakg....nhancer ROCKS!!!!!!! (fool a was)

Don't use 'coverage sample', but supersampling

Supersampling (not for GeForce 8x00 and later cards)
Allows you to choose from one of several different Supersampling modes on the right side.
Supersampling offers excellent image quality, but can also reduce the frame rate considerably.

in the Nhancer online manual this is what they say of the supersampling mode. not for GeForce 8x00 and later cards. well I have a asus GeForce EN8800 ULTRA. so this setting is not allowed for mij card I asume??

My settings thusfar: AA Coverage Sample 8X
Gamma correction Super
AF 16X
Vertical Sync Application
Texture Filtering High Qualitiy
Negative LOD BIAS Clamp

The rest of the settings I did not adjust and are left standard in Nhancer.
perhaps you have better settings suggestions for my 8800 Ultra (768MB DDR3)



Off Topic: You are right Jakg....I had an older system (6 years) so when I went in T1 on blackwoord with more than 3 cars my Fr/sec Dropped to 2 yes two hhahahaha. I was so fed up with that so I bought myself a killing system. ofcause, there will be always faster systems...but this is ok for me now....having so much fun.

For those of you that don't want to bother with any other programs, and just want to use the built in nvidia control panel, here are some screenshots. Set the antialiasing higher than 4x if you want (my graphics card slows down too much if I use 8x) You also might want to turn on Transparency antialiasing (only works on 7 series or higher cards).

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You also might want to turn on Transparency antialiasing (only works on 7 series or higher cards).

I suppose it works on 6xxx serie aswell since I've used it with 6800GS card on several games.

I have a dell d630 I am going to play LFS on. It has a nvidia quadro 135m graphics card with 2 gig of ram and a T7700 processor.

Now with all the settings for graphics turned up in LFS with resolution of 1440 x 900 I get hot lap frame rates that peak at 59.7 fps and pretty much stay above 50 the whole time. Now I have tried changing the aa settings and all the other settings mentioned here and the fps nor the picture quality change. I have tried using the nvidia control and also the Nhancer control. I have tried turning the antialiasing on 16xQ and anistropic on 16 but it doesn't make any difference in fps or image to when they are turned off.

I am running the latest dell drivers.

Any idea why the settings don't change when in game? I have tried changing global settings and also program specific.

My nHancer woulndt do this either but i did get the control panel to work. Perhaps its the chipset?

You could post screenshots of your settings

You guys (with NV cards) that can't seem to get supreme IQ need to do this with NHancer version 2.3.2.. for latest 169.xxx drivers.. (or earlier versions of drivers)

MANUALLY turn off the optimizations for AF and trilinear.. then force trilinear. Without doing that, you'll never get max IQ. you can still use only 2x AA and 8xAF and still get better results with those optimizations off than higher AA and AF with those optimizations on and no forced trilinear.

for ATI guys it is the same, but you need to turn the optimizations off in other ways. Maybe this was listed somewhere in this thread, but when skimming it, including first post in thread, I did not see those settings mentioned. Or others posting screenshots with those optimizations turned on not knowing why it looked likes @$$. It makes a huge difference, especially in game- when things are actually moving.



edit- oops, I forgot, this is what I use for the first section, but people seem to use different settings here too. I am running 1600 x 1200 w/ all in-game settings maxed out of course.

Don't suppose anyone has the screenshots to use for the new nVidia 8800GTS driver Control Panel do they?

Just follow the guide, and read the notes at the bottom for the 8800 series

Not having much luck. I don't suppose anyone has the settings for the 8800GTS control panel do they? I've tried loads of different combinations and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Here are the setttings for the un-modified control panel settings;

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Not having much luck. I don't suppose anyone has the settings for the 8800GTS control panel do they? I've tried loads of different combinations and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Here are the setttings for the un-modified control panel settings;

same here, using a GF 8800 GTX, no visible difference no matters what antialiasing or other settings i have tried.

maybe the LFS 3D engine is too "light" for the 8800 ? it seems to be clamped at 100fps all the time here.

I did get it to look great at one point, nice and smooth and very detailed.
However my PSU packed up and at the time I was diagnosing what was wrong I reinstalled WinXP and LFS and I can't get the great look back.

The "jaggies" are seriously hurting gameplay

I used to have ATi X800Pro, ran LFS fine. Now I have 8600GT and I had some little problems to get it running smooth-looking & smooth-fps. But I just realized this thread and now LFS looks better and runs with higher FPS! Nice.

horrgakx, which version of the drivers are you using? I had similar problems when running Forceware prior to the one I'm using at the moment (163.75 now), where none of the settings could enable AA or AF. If you're using older ones you should try updating them.

Quote from horrgakx :

Not having much luck. I don't suppose anyone has the settings for the 8800GTS control panel do they? I've tried loads of different combinations and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Here are the setttings for the un-modified control panel settings;

Here you go, where your settings need to be changed:

Anisotropic Filtering - 16X
Anitaliasing Mode - Don't know the options here - what have you got?
Antialiasing Setting - 8X
Antialiasing Transparency - On
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias - Clamp
Texture Filtering - High Quality
Texture Filtering - Tiliniear optimization - OFF
Vertical Synx - OFF (unless you always ALWAYS have and fps above your monitors refresh rate, ie 60hz, 100hz etc)

That will give you great image quality.

Quote from horrgakx :

I did get it to look great at one point, nice and smooth and very detailed.
However my PSU packed up and at the time I was diagnosing what was wrong I reinstalled WinXP and LFS and I can't get the great look back.

The "jaggies" are seriously hurting gameplay

Did you change negative LOD to clamp?