Anisotropic Filtering: Turning it on
Erry:
I have a Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS and honestly, before Anisotropic Filtering, MY GAME WOULD LAG(On med and some high settings), now, and I do not know why, it runs like butter. O_O And it's 'default' setting is 8x.
Leticron:
@GnatGoSplat: If you compare 2 pictures IMHO it doesn't matter if you do that on a cheap graphics system or on an expensive one.
It's not about absolute numbers...much more about the subjective impression you get while comparing these 2 pictures.
And I'm sorry....but TS2 looks so much better (even on my shitty cheap onboard chip ::)) (or do you think it is BECAUSE of my shitty cheap onboard chip ?)
If you seriously don't see that, with your expensive un-ancient and un-crappy card then dear sir you might have been cheated and lied to by your hardware supplier ;D ;D
-le
Rockermonkey:
I think that sims 3 looks far better. Have you updated recently? I can't see why mine would look way better then sims 2 and yours would look worse. Your not playing on the highest settings(Without Adanced rendering) right? Because I thought that the textures were terrible until I changed to almost full settings.
Really, the only thing that changes between cards are speed. As long the card is good enough to run on full settings you can't blame anything on the card. Your un-ancient newer card probably also has game crashes just like everyone else with better cards then me. This makes me chuckle and say "Even with my old as all heck graphic card I have not had one crash and have no lag. On almost full settings."
I don't know why the game runs like it does on my computer...But it does, and it runs really nice.
Leticron:
Well...perhaps it is time for me to get glasses (or at least clean the monitor :D :D )
I believe I have comparable settings in both games.
IMHO TS2 has clearly the cleaner graphics but that's nothing to get all warped up about.
Just look at it like a personal opinion (and you know, what "they" say about opinions ;)
I'm off now checking if for some reason TS3 hasnn't been kicked to the fullest of my GFX capabilities.
Have a nice weekend
-le
GnatGoSplat:
Quote from: Leticron on 2009 June 20, 10:59:38
@GnatGoSplat: If you compare 2 pictures IMHO it doesn't matter if you do that on a cheap graphics system or on an expensive one.
It's not about absolute numbers...much more about the subjective impression you get while comparing these 2 pictures.
And I'm sorry....but TS2 looks so much better (even on my shitty cheap onboard chip ::)) (or do you think it is BECAUSE of my shitty cheap onboard chip ?)
If you seriously don't see that, with your expensive un-ancient and un-crappy card then dear sir you might have been cheated and lied to by your hardware supplier ;D ;D
I think it does matter. With a shitty old onboard chip, you can't turn all settings max, turn smooth edges to max, and crank resolution up to monitor's native. Running anything less than native resolution = blurry.
With all settings maxed, Sims 3 looks better other than the pudding faces.
I had to turn anisotropic off on mine though. I had 2 unexplained BSOD's in 2 days while playing Sims 3 with it turned on, and this machine has NEVER crashed playing Sims 3 for the past month. It seems like it can't be a coincidence. It's probably due to my video card being one of those fairly uncommon single-slot versions. I may try it again when I upgrade to a better card with dual slot cooler.
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