Use AMD or nVidia control panel to boost performance
Tweaking the graphics settings on your graphics card can do a lot to improve play during gaming. We've put together some guidelines for obtaining good image quality, as well as for finding the right blend of quality and performance, when tweaking the settings.
Game bugs
Sometimes you may encounter obscure bugs in a game that cause graphics issues. Given the large array of hardware, PC game developers can't always test for all possible combinations.
For example, I've seen SSAO (screen space ambient occlusion) allowed as a setting on graphics hardware that can't possibly support it.
The result may be image corruption, a game crash, or, if you're lucky, nothing happening aside from the feature not working.
Driver residue
The general rule of thumb is always to uninstall your existing driver before installing a new one.
If you don't, it's possible for traces of the old driver to remain on the system; it may be a stray DLL, or a registry entry that conflicts with a new driver entry.
If you've been installing new drivers over older versions, you'll likely encounter game crashes and severe image-quality problems.
One solution is to download Driver Cleaner. Though it used to be free, Driver Cleaner is now a $10 (£6.67) download - but it's worth it.
You're in control
You may care about frame rate above all else, or be the kind of person to tweak every available setting for the best possible image quality.
Either way, don't forget to check both the in-game graphics settings and your graphics card's control panel.
Just a few tweaks can result in a much more immersive and satisfying experience.
- Use your AMD or nVidia graphics card control panel to improve performance when gaming
- Increase resolution before anti-aliasing
- How to use the in-game controls
- nVidia control panels
- AMD graphics control panel
- Troubleshooting
- Game bugs
Comments
Sundays_treason said: just done what the article says and has helped me SOOO much thanks guys BF3 runs even better than it did before
paulc said: Ive had problems with ATI drivers that are not compatable with Flightgear 20 flying sim and uses opengl to workhave rolled back to original ATI driver and Flightgear 19 to see it that improves the preformance All is ok so far