[QUOTE="jed-at-war"][QUOTE="LordEC911"]

[QUOTE="jed-at-war"]NOTE: V-sync should always be on. It limits the FPS to the refresh rate of your monitor to prevent choppy movement. Since your monitor cannot display a frame rate higher than its refresh rate, turning of V-sync will do no more than push your computer harder than it needs to go and cause choppiness. The only time you should turn it off is while you are benchmarking. Broken_Tulip

This isn't true.
Whenever your card cannot supply the v-sync FPS, 60, 65, 70, etc. it will actually decrease your FPS quite noticeably. This is one of the reasons that tripple buffering setting is included with apps that support ATi cards.

I guess I used the wrong term, not really HQ AA but adaptive AA.

So, if you are running an old game that you can crush, you turn on v-sync. If you are running a game that your card connot run faster than your refresh rate, shut off v-sync or it will drop your FPS. Right?

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[QUOTE="felixworks"]Well....to me maxed means MAXED. I mean everything that could possibly make it look better is on. The highest resolution possible, and of course AA and AF as high as it goes.Broken_Tulip

I agree 110%. I even go as far as including supersampling for textures with transparency.

FPS seems to be getting left out. Can someone max a game if it is running at 15FPS? I think max should be either 30fps or 60fps. Although, true max would be when the FPS matches the refresh rate of your monitor.

Supersampling and AA are a must for me. I have this hate thing going for jagged lines. Of course, I haven't really liked any newer games enough to play them, but I would probably drop the supersampling and turn the AA to 2x if it was bellow 30fps at 1280x960. I have not ran into this problem yet though.

NOTE: V-sync should always be on. It limits the FPS to the refresh rate of your monitor to prevent choppy movement. Since your monitor cannot display a frame rate higher than its refresh rate, turning of V-sync will do no more than push your computer harder than it needs to go and cause choppiness. The only time you should turn it off is while you are benchmarking.

It is the one in my sig. The newest games that I play is Star Wars Battlefront II followed by Republic Commando. I guess compared to the games I play, my PC is earth shattering.

I was playing no one lives forever 2 the other day and my frames would go down as much as 40 on my 8800.I mean that is a game from 2001 i think:? .All i had to do was turn off supersampling and even with 16xQAA it would never ever come below 60fps cuz i had vsync on.That told me that supersampling aint worth a crap because of the miserable performance.

Not if your rig has power to spare.

EVGA 8800GT $199.99 MIR

You cant go wrong with that card.

wklzip

I would have to agree. For the price this card cant be beat.

The perfect card for you by what your asking would be mine. XFX 8800 GTS XXX 512MB Already OC'd if you dont want to play with that. Plus you can OC it higher. Its on Par with the GTX and costs less.debusentel

On par? No way. Its a good card, i had one in my old computer, but a stock gtx will beat that card. My oc gtx's destroy that cards stats. And dont tell my i dont know, ive had both and the GTX is much much beter.