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Right as you can notice some changes have been made in the drivers. Look at the tabs and you'll notice that performance is now set at Quality by default. With the launch of GeForce FX 5900, NVIDIA has modified the Performance and Quality control panel to more accurately represent the driver settings.
NVIDIA now offers a Performance, Balanced and Quality mode for Image Settings.
Here you can select Anti Aliasing (AA) up-to 8xS skewed grid modes and Anisotrpic Filtering modes (AF) to 8x. The Texture sharpening setting will crank up the AF level to the next higher one. At default Quality is set which is a quality setting better than ATI's default settings. Performance isthe same and thus matches ATI default performance settings mode.
- The Performance mode offers users the highest frame rate possible.
- Balanced mode offers users an optimal blend of image quality and performance.
- Quality mode offers users the highest image quality while still delivering very good performance.
We included benchmarks on both the Balanced and Quality mode. All previous reviews and thus results have been measured in 'Balanced' mode. The same goes for for all Radeon reviews. The quality mode is therefore better than previous results on all graphics card reviews.
In a later add-on of this article we will include an extensive set of Image Quality tests, this will not be included into this review this moment due to time-restrictions.
So remember, balanced mode is the image quality and thus performance results comparable to all other graphics card results in the benchmarks. Quality mode has better visual quality.
Standard information, that 256 MB still is very impressive everytime I see it.
The new DirectX refresh rate settings
OpenGL settings, also nothing new here.
Your overlay settings for example when you play back DVD.
If you have a TFT screen that can flip .. here are your settings.
