Good afternoon. This article will be of interest, first of all, to owners of NVIDIA video cards (owners of ATI or AMD)…
Probably, almost all computer users have encountered lags in various games (at least those who have ever launched games at all). The reasons for the brakes can be very different: insufficient random access memory, heavy PC load with other applications, low video card performance, etc..
I would like to talk about how to increase this performance in games on NVIDIA video cards in this article. Let's start to deal with everything in order...
P ro performance and fps
In general, how can you measure the performance of a video card? If we don’t go into technical details and other points now, then for most users productivity is expressed in the number fps - i.e. number of frames per second.
Of course, the higher this indicator, the better and smoother your picture on the screen. To measure fps, you can use many utilities, the most convenient (in my opinion) is the program for recording video from the screen - FRAPS (even if nothing is recorded, the program by default shows fps in the corner of the screen in any game).
About drivers for the video card
Before you begin setting up your NVIDIA video card settings, you need to install and update the drivers. In general, drivers can have a serious impact on the performance of a video card. Due to drivers, the picture on the screen may change beyond recognition...
To update and search for a driver for a video card, I recommend using one of the programs from this one.
For example, I really like the Slim Drivers utility - it quickly finds and updates all the drivers on your PC.
Updating drivers in the Slim Drivers program.
Improved performance (FPS) with NVIDIA tuning
If you have installed NVIDIA drivers- then in order to start setting them up, you can simply click anywhere on the desktop right click mice and context menu Explorer select " NVIDIA control panel«.
Next in the control panel we will be interested in the “ managing 3D parameters"(this tab is usually located on the left in the settings column, see screenshot below). In this window we will set the settings.
Yes, by the way, the order of certain options (discussed below) may be different (it’s impossible to guess how it will be for you)! Therefore, I will present only the key options that are available in all versions of drivers for NVIDIA.
- Anisotropic filtering. Directly affects the quality of textures in games. Therefore it is recommended switch off.
- V-Sync (Vertical Sync). A parameter that greatly affects the performance of the video card. This option is recommended to increase fps switch off.
- Enable scalable textures. We put the point No.
- Expansion limitation. Need to switch off.
- Antialiasing. Switch off.
- Triple buffering. Necessary switch off.
- Texture filtering (anisotropic optimization). This option allows you to increase performance using bilinear filtering. Need to turn on.
- Texture filtering (quality). Here you set the parameter “ highest performance«.
- Texture filtering (negative LOD deviation). Turn on.
- Texture filtering (three-line optimization). Turn on.
After setting all the settings, save them and exit. If you restart the game now, the number of fps in it should increase, sometimes the increase is more than 20% (which is significant, and allows you to play games that you would not have risked before)!
By the way, the quality of the picture, after making the adjustments, may deteriorate somewhat, but the picture will move much faster and more evenly than before.
A few more tips to increase fps
1) If an online game is slow (WOW, Tanks, etc.), I recommend measuring not only the fps in the game, but also comparing it with the requirements of the game.
3) It’s a good idea to optimize Windows system for high performance:
4) Check your computer for viruses if the previous recommendations do not help:
5) There is also special utilities that can speed up your PC in games:
That's all, happy gaming everyone!
Sincerely…
02/03/16, 10:49 About computers 
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The performance of a video card can be increased in one of two ways: change the characteristics by changing the hardware or change the operating parameters by configuring the software in a special way.
If for some reason you do not want to change the hardware characteristics of the video card, i.e. disperse it, for example, so as not to burn it. Then the second method will suit you - increasing the performance of the video card by changing the software settings.
How to find out the model of the installed video card
The video card model can be obtained different ways. Let's consider several options for operating system Windows.
Via desktop
- In Windows 7, right-click on any free space on the Desktop and select Screen Resolution.
- Select Additional options
- A window will appear containing all the information about the video device. On the Adapter tab you will find the name of your video card.
The same window is opened using the command
- Start -> Control Panel -> Display -> Screen Resolution (for Windows 7)
- Start -> Settings -> System -> Advanced display options -> Properties graphics adapter(for Windows 10)
We look at the name in the device manager
Right-click on “My Computer” and select Properties from the menu. On the left side, select Device Manager.
Start -> Control Panel -> System (in Windows 7)
Start -> Settings -> System -> About -> Device Manager (in Windows 10)
Expand the Video Adapters tab and see the model of the video adapter.
Using the command line
Perhaps it will be easier for someone to use the command to find out which video card is installed on a computer or laptop.
Press the Win+R key at the same time and enter the dxdiag command in the window that appears. A window will open with complete information about the system installed drivers and components. In the Screen tab you will find all the information about the video card. In the flesh, how much video memory is installed in it and the driver version.
Using the Aida program
If for some reason you do not want or cannot use standard means, then you will learn more detailed information about your computer or laptop after installing the Aida program. You can download it from the official website http://www.aida64.com/downloads
After starting the program, go to the Display tab – Video Windows here you will find everything about your graphics accelerator.
Setting up an Nvidia video card
If you decide to figure out how to set up Nvidia video card, then initially you need to right-click on the desktop, and then in the window that opens select “Panel Nvidia control" Now select "Manage 3D Settings". If you do everything correctly, you will see a window in which you need to set the following nvidia driver settings:
- Anisotropic filtering – 16x(Anisotropic filtering has only one setting - filter factor (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x). The higher it is, the sharper and more natural the textures look. Typically, with a high value, small artifacts are noticeable only on the outermost pixels of tilted textures.)
- Triple Buffering – Off(Triple buffering in computer graphics- a type of double buffering; an image output method that avoids or reduces artifacts.)
- Texture Filtering/Anisotropic Sampling Optimization – Off.(Anisotropic filtering is needed to increase the clarity of the image of 3D objects relative to the camera (character, car, etc.). We set the value to Application-controlled - this means that the application will automatically select desired mode anisotropic filtering or filtering is controlled in the application itself (program, game), the higher the filtering value, the clearer the image will be. It has virtually no effect on performance. For each application, this parameter can be configured separately (software settings tab), obtaining higher quality if the application does not support or does not handle anisotropic filtering correctly.)
- Texture Filtering / Negative LOD Deviation – Snapping(For more contrasting texture filtering, applications sometimes use a negative Level of Detail (LOD) value. This increases the contrast of a still image, but a “noise” effect appears on moving objects. To get a better image when using anisotropic filtering, it is advisable to set the option to “snap” to prohibit negative deviation of the UD.)
- Texture filtering / quality - performance
- Texture Filtering / Trilinear Optimization – Off(Texture filtering - trilinear optimization. Possible values are "On" and "Off". Enabling this option allows the driver to reduce the quality of trilinear filtering to improve performance, depending on the selected Intellisample mode. Trilinear filtering is an improved version of bilinear filtering. MIP- texturing, while increasing image clarity and the percentage of cache hits at long distances, has a serious drawback: the interface boundaries between mip levels are clearly visible. Trilinear filtering allows you to correct this drawback at the cost of some reduction in texture sharpness. For this, the pixel color is calculated as a weighted average of eight texels: by four on two adjacent MIP textures. If the MIP texturing formulas give the largest or smallest MIP texture, trilinear filtering degenerates into bilinear filtering.
Insufficient sharpness is combated by setting a negative mip bias - that is, the textures are taken to be more detailed than would be necessary without trilinear filtering.) - Texture filtering / anisotropic filtering optimization – Off.(Possible values are “On” and “Off”. When enabled, the driver forces the use of the point mip filter at all stages except the main one. Enabling the option slightly degrades the image quality and slightly increases performance.)
- Multi-Display/Mixed GPU Acceleration - Single Display Performance Mode
- Vertical Sync Pulse - Adaptive(The vertical sync pulse is turned off to reach 100 fps, but with a 120 Hz monitor, you don’t have to turn it off. Fps_max will not rise above 100 unless develover “1” (fps_override) is turned on)
- Streaming Optimization – On(Controls the number of GPUs used by 3D applications)
- PhysX - CPU
- Antialiasing-transparent. – Off
- Power Management Mode – Maximum Performance Mode Preferred
- Maximum number of pre-prepared frames – 1
After setting these settings, click the “Apply” button. Please note that the number of settings may be different for different video cards, so change only those that are available for your model. You can evaluate the increase in productivity by running some kind of toy or using special programs, such as 3DMark, for example.
Setting up individual games through the Nvidia Control Panel
If you do not need the proposed settings to apply to all games at once, you can configure each application/game separately. This is done according to the same principle, only in the drop-down list we select the game you want and do our own optimization, while installed settings will not affect other games in any way.
Hello, dear readers of the site wot-force.ru! Today we would like to tell you how to configure an Nvidia video card for WOT. Many gamers prefer to use Nvidia products, but not everyone knows how to configure an Nvidia video card for WOT. To achieve maximum performance in the game, follow our tips. In this article we will talk specifically about GeForce cards; we will prepare separate material for Radeon owners.
In World of Tanks, as we know, reaction and speed are very important, and as a result, we need a large and stable FPS (frame rate). If you have some expensive “monster” like a Radeon 7990 or Geforce GTX 780, then you don’t need our advice, because... your devices are very productive and can easily cope with maximum game settings, but for everyone else it’s better to carry out simple manipulations to configure their video card. After all this, you will not only increase FPS in World of Tanks, but also increase the overall performance of your video camera.
And so, in order to configure an Nvidia video card for WOT, follow these steps: on the desktop, right-click on any area of the screen, then in the menu that appears, click on “Nvidia control panel”.
Go to the “3D Settings” tab and click on “Adjust image settings with viewing”, here you need to select the item - “Settings according to the 3D application”, then click “Apply”.
After all this, go to the bottom tab “Manage 3D parameters”, in the window that appears, make the following changes:
- Graph. CUDA processors - everything.
- Anisotropic filtering – application controlled.
- Triple buffering - turn off.
- Texture filtering (anisotropic optimization during sampling) – turn off.
- Texture filtering (negative UD deviation) – bind.
- Texture filtering (quality) - performance.
- Texture filtering (trilinear optimization) – turn off.
- Texture filtering (anisotropic optimization by filtering) – turn off.
- Accelerate multiple monitors - single display performance.
- Vert. sync pulse is adaptive.
- PhysX CPU.
- Anti-aliasing-transparency – turn off.
After the manipulations have been completed, click “Apply” so that all changes take effect. It is worth considering that you may not have some items, or some others will be present - this is normal, because different models video cards have different features.
Such fine tuning Nvidia graphics cards for WOT can give you up to a 40 percent performance boost, which is a very good result considering that we need every frame. These settings will allow your video adapter to work at maximum performance - FPS in World of Tanks will improve.
We hope that our tips helped you optimally configure your Nvidia video card for a comfortable game in WOT. Subscribe to updates and stay with us!
How to configure a video card?
Each PC user, by simply adjusting the characteristics of the video card, can improve its performance and image quality on the screen, and change the resolution.
Video card detection
If you do not understand which video card you are using, then you need to clarify its name:
- To do this, open Device Manager.
- Find the “Video adapters” item and expand the list by double-clicking on the line name. The name of the sub-item is the name of the video card installed on your personal computer.
- Today, the most common video cards are Nvidia and Radeon.
Setting up an Nvidia video card
If you decide to figure out how to configure an Nvidia video card, then initially you need to right-click on the desktop, and then select “Nvidia Control Panel” in the window that opens. Now select "Manage 3D Settings". If you do everything correctly, you will see a window in which you need to set the following settings:
- GPUs - all;
- texture filtering - disable;
- triple buffering - disable;
- texture filtering (quality) - maximum performance;
- anisotropic optimization - disable;
- trilinear optimization - disable;
- vertical sync pulse - adaptive;
- acceleration of various monitors - single display performance;
- PhysX - central processor;
- anti-aliasing-transparency - disable.
Next, you need to click the “Apply” button. This way, numerous changes will be able to take effect. You should also pay attention to the fact that certain items presented above may be missing (it all depends on the version of the video card). However, you should not worry about this, since the settings for different video card models may vary slightly.
Such changes guarantee an increase in productivity of approximately 30-40%. This way, you can work more efficiently with 3D graphics, watch movies or play modern games.
Setting up a Radeon video card
Radeon graphics cards, like Nvidia's, can also be tweaked to improve their overall performance. This is quite easy to do. To get started, open the “Display Properties” tab, find “Settings” and select “Advanced”. Next, a window will open allowing you to configure your Radeon video card:
- First set up OpenGL. Open the appropriate tab. Check the “Special settings” checkbox.
- Set the Anisotropic Filtering parameter to 16x. If you are using a video card based on R3xx chips, then it is additionally recommended to use the “Quality” mode. It provides the ability to apply trilinear and anisotropic filtering in parallel.
- Then set the SmoothVision anti-aliasing technology to values depending on the power of your PC. Before tuning your Radeon graphics card, be aware that this setting has the greatest impact on performance in 3D programs.
- “Sharpness Level” and “Texture Preferences” - set the values to maximum. Disable vertical sync.
- Next, configure Direct. Go to the appropriate tab. Click Compatibility Settings.
If you plan to improve the performance of video adapters based on Radeon 7 xxx, 9100, 9200, then you need to do the following:- disable 32-bit depth support;
For all other video cards:- enable support for DXT texture formats;
- disable alternate pixel center.
- Additionally, to configure the video card, it is recommended to open the “VPU Recover” tab. Next to “Enable VPU Recover” check the box.
Please note that to more effectively configure the video adapter, you can use specialized applications, which are commonly called tweakers.
Thanks to them, you can increase the frequency at which the memory and adapter core operate. In addition, you can set special parameters so that all this is done in automatic mode when the personal computer is turned on.
However, do not forget that it is necessary to increase the frequency little by little. As practice shows, the optimal step is a value of three to five megahertz. To prevent damage to the video card, after each change it is recommended to check the stability of its operation in 3D programs and games.
If during battle the FPS on your laptop is always too low, we suggest following these steps:
I. Make sure that the computer is suitable for system requirements.
II. Set a high-performance energy plan.
III. Disable all system and Internet programs that reduce performance.
IV. Check how many video cards are installed in the laptop.
V. Switch the video card to discrete.
Va. Instructions for Nvidia video cards.
Vb. Instructions for AMD video cards.
VI. If all else fails, create a support ticket.
I. First, make sure your laptop is compatible.
II. High performance energy plan.
1. Click "Start".
2. Go to Control Panel > System and Security.
3. Select "Power Options".
4. Set to "High performance". Adjust your monitor brightness if necessary, as brightness may change when you switch performance.
III. Disable all performance-reducing systems and Internet programs
Antiviruses (as a last resort), clients for downloading files (for example: uTorrent, Download Master, Zona, FlashGet and others), programs providing text and voice communication(for example: Skype, ICQ), close the browser and others, unnecessary applications. Especially in this situation, it is worth highlighting the antivirus, since during the game it checks various files and this, to a certain extent, loads the system.
IV. To find out the number of video cards on your laptop, follow these steps:
1. Click the Start button, enter the word “device” (without quotes) into the search bar and select “Device Manager” from the list of results.
If two display adapters are listed, it means your laptop supports switching between graphics cards.
If there is only one display adapter in the list, most often the laptop does not support such switching.
V. Switching video cards
So, we have determined that the laptop meets the system requirements of the game, can switch between video cards, and has the correct power plan. Now you need to correctly configure the video card for the game, since, most likely, the laptop automatically uses the built-in Intel video card and this causes a decrease in FPS. For use discrete video card you must follow the following instructions:
Va. Control PanelNvidia. For video cardsNvidiaGeForce
If your system has a video cardAMDRadeon or onlyIntel, then go to section Vb.
Make sure that the latest drivers for your Nvidia GeForce video card are installed on your laptop. To install/update drivers, the manufacturer recommends using the GeForce Experience program, which monitors the release of a new driver for your video card and automatically updates it. After installing the driver through GeForce Experience, be sure to restart your computer.
Nvidia GeForce video cards are configured through the Nvidia Control Panel.
To open this panel, right-click on the desktop and select “NVIDIA Control Panel” in the pop-up window.
1. In the Control Panel, go to the "Manage 3D Settings" tab. In global settings, specify Nvidia processor as preferred and click "Apply".
2. Go to the " tab Software settings". In the first step, click Add, then Browse. Locate the Castle.exe file (located in the folder with installed game PrimeWorld\Castle\Castle.exe) and PW_Game.exe (located in the game installation folder PrimeWorld\PvP\Bin\PW_Game.exe), then click "Add selected program".
In the second option, select "Nvidia High-Performance Processor" from the drop-down menu.
Important! After adding Castle.exe, be sure to click "Apply", then add PW_Game.exe and also click "Apply".
Restart your computer and launch the game. If you do not notice an increase in FPS or it is not significant, then follow these steps:
Launch Nvidia Control Panel. Go to the "Adjust Preview Image Settings" tab, select "Custom Settings with Focus on:" and drag the slider all the way to the left until "Performance" appears. Click "Apply", restart your computer and launch the game.
Vb. ATI Catalyst Control Center. Forvideo cardsAMD Radeon
If your system only has a video cardIntel, then go to section VI.
Before starting the settings, make sure that the latest drivers for the AMD Radeon video card are installed on your laptop. To install\update drivers, download the utility to determine the most suitable drivers for your system AMD Driver Autodetect from the official AMD website. The utility does not require installation - just run it and it will automatically offer to download required driver. After installing the driver, be sure to restart your computer.
To change video card switching settings in ATI Catalyst Control Center, follow these steps:
1. Click the Start button and enter the text CCC in the search field (in English layout), then from the list of results select CCC - Advanced:
2. From the Catalyst Control Center menu, select Switchable Graphics.
3. Select Browse to search for the executable file for the application you want to configure. In our case, these are the executable files Castle.exe (located in the folder with the installed game PrimeWorld\Castle\Castle.exe) and PW_Game.exe (located in the folder with the installed game PrimeWorld\PvP\Bin\PW_Game.exe).
The changes you make will be applied immediately. Restart your computer and launch the game.
Don't forget to finish your work unnecessary programs at the time the game starts.
If after following the suggested instructions the FPS level does not change, then switch the game to windowed mode and lower the graphics settings to minimum.
VI. If the instructions did not help increase FPS
Create a request with the support service, immediately attaching a file and detailed description problems (under what conditions does subsidence usually occur, does the sound freeze along with the picture, and so on). Also indicate which instructions you have already completed.
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