[ceege1]

Hi all,

I have just installed the nHancer program for my Nvidia 8600gt video card. I have never used this program before but have read in posts that it can be very useful to optimise your graphic settings .
SHVAK helped me some time ago to get my graphics card up and going, for which I will be ever grateful. Below are the settings he suggested and to run at 1152x864 on my 19"wide screen monitor and Acer 3.2 pentium 4 with 2 gigs of ram.I am also am on Vista home premium.
Time has marched on since then, I'm modded to the max and have installed the latest Nvidia drivers as of a couple of days ago. These helped improve my frame rate ,so on most maps I am around mid 30's except for when I am near lots of water.
The nHancer has a preset setting for il2, but when you run the game it is nowhere as good as SHVAK's settings in the Nvidia control panel. Water is rubbish and land detail etc is crap.

Here's my question,I was wondering if someone else is using this utility successfully. If so are they able to give me some pointers please on this program. I am just trying to screw every last bit of performance out of my pc without destroying the frame rate and would love a second opinion before screwing things up because of my ignorance.


Antialiasing-Gamma correction- Use global setting(on) ===off
Antialiasing-Mode- Use global setting (application controlled) ===override any application setting
Antialiasing-setting- Use global setting(application controlled) ====4x
AntialiasingTransparency- Use global setting (off) ===Multysampling
Conformant texture clamp- Use global setting(use hardware)==== use openGL specification
Extension limit- Use global setting(off) ===off
Force mipmaps- Use global settings(none) ====Bilinear
Multi display/mixed-GPU acceleration- Use global setting(Multiple display perfor... ====single display performance
Texture filtering-Anisotropic sample opti.. Use global setting(off) =====on
Texture filtering-Negative LOD bias- Use global setting (allow) ====allow
Texture filtering quality- Use global setting(quality) ===quality
Texture filtering-trilinear optimisation- Use global setting(off) ===off
Triple buffering- Use global setting (off) ====on
SLI performance mode- Nvidia recommended (SLI) ===I DON

[ArcticWolf]

~S~ m8

Turn your vertical sync off....it'll boost your fps. Second try in you conf file change water=3 or try even 4.

[wraith]

I used to run an 8600GT and I think you're settings are a bit too high for really smooth gameplay.

I'd go to landgeom2 instead of 3, stick to water 0 or 1 and set effects to 1. Effects 2 can get a really high end rig stuttering. V synch is all about personal pref. I run it on with a Quad Core 260GTX sli setup because I don't like the tearing you get without it- as I use eyes to look at the screen I can't see the advantage of anything over 60 fps anyway !

With balanced settings your card can run the game really nicely, but at the end of the day one persons stutters are someone elses smooth as glass- its what looks right to you that counts