Wha? So basically, I can make it seem like AA or multisampling doesn't exist? THAT WOULD BE EPIC for one game (Need for speed world, it will force AA at medium+ settings)
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:30 AM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually he didn't turn off multisampling, but disabled multisampling > from being used. It was set as having a maximum value of x4, and now > not even x1 can't be used. So if it wasn't being used in the first > place, it won't affect performance at all. > > On 3 Dez, 09:23, Zentradis <[email protected]> wrote: >> maybe this can be of help >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970912.aspx >> it seems that he definitely disabled multisample (value equal to 0) >> while microsoft had it set on 4 by default ( in a range from 0 to 16) >> this should affect the whole 3d performance... by the way I'm just >> reporting an impression based on the link i posted =) >> >> On 3 Dic, 05:10, Kiki <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > hmm... another interesting lines of parameter... >> >> > even though both of them (DisableHWAcceleration and >> > Acceleration.Level) have similar task (hardware acceleration things), >> > seems they have different way to do the task... or do they complement >> > each other so that they can't exist without the other? ...or >> > DisbaleHWAcceleration is more to "hard calibrating", while >> > "Acceleration.Level" is more to "soft calibrating" because it has more >> > values to be choose? @_@ >> >> > - Acceleration.Level has 5 values ranging from 0 to 5 >> > - DisableHardwareAcceleration has 2 values, only capable to understand >> > 0 or 1 (or maybe any numbers that's not ZERO), "true"/"false", >> > "enable"/"disable", "yes"/"no" ?? >> >> > ...it's just my impression to both of them "at a glance", so please >> > correct me if I'm wrong. >_< >> >> > On Dec 3, 7:38 am, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > Yeah, it HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class >> > > \{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000 (and 0001) >> >> > > It's a 32-bit DWORD called "Acceleration.Level", with values ranging >> > > from 5 (disabled) all the way to 0 (full hw accel). 945GME defaults at >> > > 4 (minimum accel). If the value doesn't exist, just create it. >> >> > > The results didn't seem to be consistent for some people. I did notice >> > > improvements going from default 4 to 1 (2nd highest value), but I >> > > can't link you to my results as google groups is messing up and >> > > doesn't open pages for me. >> >> > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Acer TravelMate 2480 GFX: GMA950 CPU: Intel Celeron M 420 @ 1.6Ghz RAM: 2GB DDR2 333Mhz HDD: Samsung 120GB 5400RPM SATA -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
