Nvidia users: Better visuals at the same performance? Yes! And YOUR help is needed!

I posted on the nvidia forum, now we must wait for their reaction ....
Too bad developers ISI did not realize this problem, it is also necessary that the community of developers secour flies!!

 

I know remember an issue with Clamp (back when I had SLIed GTX 275s) that has returned now that I'm using the modified DLL. If I take a track with jagged trackside painted lines and Clamp the LOD then the lines smooth out but then there's what I think is a mip map problem where the line suddenly transitions from sharp to fuzzy at about 5 car lengths ahead.

Any ideas how to address that?

 

If it's really that blurry you can manually adjust the LOD bias in the rFactor/rFactor2 profile in the Nvidia Inspector to a negative value like -1 (that really depends on how bad it looks).
Using clamp and 16x anisotropic texture filtering should do the track usually. Make sure you are running with 16x anisotropic texture filtering when using clamp!

 

It's worse at ORSM Bathurst. I just ran ISI Brianza and it's barely noticeable. I'm probably at 8x AA so I'll try that, thanks.

 

Add me to the list of people that would like to see this fixed in the drivers.

 

Only you can do that yourself.
Hop over to the Nvidia forums and reply to the thread. Infos are in the first post of this thread.

 

hey robert,

as you are german i really thing you should reach hardware magazines. maybe if you post this in forums like "PC Games Hardware" or try to reach the editors of the magazine, they make an article about it or have a look at it why the hell the image quality on nvidia cards gettin' worse.

 

+1

 

Spinelli's testing and suggestions are pure gold. What a massive difference on my 780ti.

See here: http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/18712-IS-NVIDIA-Image-Quality-A-Joke-Or-Is-It-Just-Me?p=254714&viewfull=1#post254714

My current nVi settings:

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Coanda, what options you use in game? like that picture.
http://isiforums.net/f/attachment.php?attachmentid=10609&d=1383228000

 

here you go mate.. Try these new settings. Similar AA however more FPS

The new JSON would have reverted this to auto.

"Texture Sharpening":0,
"Texture Sharpening#":"Sharpen textures using MIP LOD bias - 0=Off, 1=+2.0(very blurry), 2=+1.0(blurry), 3=-1.0(sharp), 4=-2.0(very sharp), 5=0.0(auto)",
Heat FX Fade Speed="0.00000"

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question has nvidia done any optimizations for rfactor 2 at all??????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

AFIAK they have. The change log of some older driver, it must have been more than a year ago, or even two, mentioned optimisations pertaining to SLI? if I'm not mistaken.

 

nothing else what are they doing or is it up to ISI to get something done ???

 

Thank you Coanda.

 

Are these settings working with the new 32/64 bits configuration after build 770/789?

I just bought a nvidia GTX770amp

 

Where did you grab the 3D Vision drivers from? and does it work in Windows 8.1?

 

The 3D drivers are part of the regular Nvidia GPU drivers. When you install them never choose automatic, choose custom/manual so that you can choose what you want to install and what you don't (for example, I always make sure NOT to install the HD Audio driver and the GeForce Experience), from there there will be 2 3D drivers to install.

Do you have a 3D capable monitor? If so, do you have the Nvidia 3D emitter or is it built into your monitor? If you don't have the emitter and it's not built into your monitor then you need to do the "hack" to make your monitor think it's using 3D. It's very popular and pretty simple, it's known as the Lightboost hack and has become pretty huge the last year or 2. Should be lots of information on the blurbusters website.

 

On the subject of graphics, what does the "Compressed textures" = 1 in the .plr really do? I've made it 0 before but haven't really noticed anything.

 

I could never notice a difference. Most people, going back to the GT Legends days (since I started investigating compressed textures option), couldn't tell either. There were a few reports of people noticing a slight difference but it sounded to me like placebo.