Demystifying Graphics Card Settings

[nickle]

More about FS9 settings than you imagined:

http://www.dawghowse.com/Demystifying%2 ... ttings.doc

[nickle]

Mike Davis, the author of Demystifying stated that he set Target Frame Rate to 12 for 2002 and 15 to 20 for FS9.  At least my read.
I set my Tgt FR to 12 just to observe the effects.
No change, no jitter, runs as the 20 FR setting.  I'll leave it there to verify no difference.
His comments were interesting re anisotropic (AA). He leaves FS9 AntiAliasing unchecked stating that the Graphics Card better handles AA than the app.  I don't think the app handles AA at all.  98 was software rendered.  FS9 is hardware rendered.  Meaning all the filtering and enhancement is by 3D Graphics Cards (MS requirement). I don't know what the AntiAliasing function is in the app.  I see no difference app AA on or off if card is enabled. Note that of all of the functions only AA is not explained in a footnote.  May be irrelevant in some cards.  

[Robert_Bance]

Just wanted to thank Mike Davis for  his excellent analysis.  quite helpful in understanding what setup choices to be made.
Bob.*

[4_Series_Scania]

An excellent resource!

A big thank-you to nickle for the heads up!  8)

One for the "push pin" Mr Moderator, would'nt you say?

[nickle]

Toms Hardware Guide says that Trilinear filtering requires twice the card resources of Bilinear filtering.
I use Bilinear because I can't see the difference Bi to Tri.
So why spend the resources?
My 9700P card, Smoothvision, allows a button selection of Performance or Quality with AA.  Unidentified, except by THG, the setting of Performance is Bi and Quality is Tri. This is full screen filtering working in conjunction with AA. And AA is selective, not full screen.  By both ATI and NVidia.  Major problem in FS9 is that the settings for Hardware are undefined unless Less is Better Performance and More is Quality is an adequate description.  Card performance is generally well known but no tests are run on the FS/CFS series.  MS would likely fall back on the proprietary defense if pushed.  If MS told it like it is, NVIDIA 4200 would be the minimum card for FS9.