Geforce Tweaks

Gday Folks, has someone put Tom Pabst' excellent system tweaks on a web page somewhere ? failing that does someone have a copy they could repost/ email me ? cheers Shane

What follows is a direct copy of part of the posting that Tom made. Tom said: "******GeForce 2 (MX, GTS, ULTRA) Tweaks and Settings for N4****** Desktop Color: Set to 16-bit color for N4 and all games. DirectX: Make sure you are using a DX 8.0 compatible driver (Nvidia Ref drivers versions 7.0 or higher) For N4: Run OpenGL (not D3D) in "XXXX"x16 (you must use a screen res compatible with your CPU speed and ram). Monitor: Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers for your monitor...DO NOT USE "Plug and Play" Monitor drivers! Set your refresh rate at the highest setting you are allowed for your monitor at the specific screen res you want to run N4 at. Advanced Settings Tab For OpenGL: In The Scroll Down Box: Enable Buffer Region Extension (checked) Allow the dual planes extension to us local video memory (checked) Use fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering (checked) ****all others are unchecked**** Default Color Depth for Textures: Always Use 16 bpp Buffer Flipping Mode: Use page flip Vertical sync: Always off Full Scene Antialiasing Method: Always off Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode Mother Board BIOS Settings: Video BIOS Shadow = "Disabled" Video BIOS Cache = "Disabled" Palette Snoop = "Disabled" AGP Turbo (or x4) = "Enabled" (if your mobo supports it....disabled or 2x or 1x if it does not) PnP Aware OS = "Yes" AGP Aperture Size = 128 mb (only if you have 128 mb or more...which you should) Resources Controlled by = "Auto" Assign IRQ to VGA = "Yes" " -- --- Joeri J. Cox European Racing League GM - http://www.europeanracingleague.com 502 Racing co-founder - http://www.502racing.com "Shane Lowry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9fpq79$2mc$[email hidden]... > Gday Folks, > has someone put Tom Pabst' excellent system tweaks on a web page somewhere > ? > > failing that does someone have a copy they could repost/ email me ? > > cheers > > Shane > >

Thanks Joeri and to those that emailed me ... exactly what i was after cheers Shane Joeri Cox <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:4J3U6.9479$[email hidden]...

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> What follows is a direct copy of part of the posting that Tom made. > > Tom said: > > "******GeForce 2 (MX, GTS, ULTRA) Tweaks and Settings for N4****** > > Desktop Color: Set to 16-bit color for N4 and all games. > > DirectX: Make sure you are using a DX 8.0 compatible driver (Nvidia Ref > drivers versions 7.0 or higher) > > For N4: Run OpenGL (not D3D) in "XXXX"x16 (you must use a screen res > compatible with your CPU speed and ram). > > Monitor: Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers for your > monitor...DO NOT USE "Plug and Play" Monitor drivers! Set your refresh

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> at the highest setting you are allowed for your monitor at the specific > screen res you want to run N4 at. > > Advanced Settings Tab For OpenGL: > In The Scroll Down Box: > Enable Buffer Region Extension (checked) > Allow the dual planes extension to us local video memory > (checked) > Use fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering (checked) > ****all others are unchecked**** > > Default Color Depth for Textures: Always Use 16 bpp > Buffer Flipping Mode: Use page flip > Vertical sync: Always off > Full Scene Antialiasing Method: Always off > > Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode > > > Mother Board BIOS Settings: > Video BIOS Shadow = "Disabled" > Video BIOS Cache = "Disabled" > Palette Snoop = "Disabled" > AGP Turbo (or x4) = "Enabled" (if your mobo supports > it....disabled or 2x or 1x if it does not) > PnP Aware OS = "Yes" > AGP Aperture Size = 128 mb (only if you have 128 mb or > more...which you should) > Resources Controlled by = "Auto" > Assign IRQ to VGA = "Yes" > > " > -- > --- > Joeri J. Cox > > European Racing League GM - http://www.europeanracingleague.com > 502 Racing co-founder - http://www.502racing.com > > "Shane Lowry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:9fpq79$2mc$[email hidden]... > > Gday Folks, > > has someone put Tom Pabst' excellent system tweaks on a web page > somewhere > > ? > > > > failing that does someone have a copy they could repost/ email me ? > > > > cheers > > > > Shane > > > > > >