[DX9] Help regarding Nvidia Profile Inspector (NPI) [CLOSED]

[JohnH]

Bengan mate it would help if I had an idea what I am looking for but at the moment nothing jumps out at me
but I will look again later my friend.

[BenganJ]

@JohnH

It's not so much about what you see, more about what you feel! :D

[BenganJ]

These are my latest settings, in-game, by ReShade and NPI.

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Graphic settings on Ultra, Scaling on 400% and SMAA at Ultra.
Vertical Sync V-Sync, disabled.

ReShade shaders TAA, NFAA and Smart_Sharp.

NPI enhancements introduced, these 7 ones:
--- Frame Rate Limiter '59'
--- Frame Rate Limiter Mode 'Default'
--- Maximum pre-rendered frames '6'
--- Texture filtering - LOD Bias (DX) '-1'
--- Texture filtering . Negative LOD bias 'Allow'
--- Memory Allocation Policy '2' (WKS_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_POLICY_AGGRESSIVE_PRE_ALLOCATION)
--- SILK Smoothness '4'

Depending on which hardware you have, some values might have to be adjusted!

[bogdac]

Given my under powered PC What settings should I alter. I guess I could change my max fps to 50, but what else would you recommend :D

[BenganJ]

@bogdac

That we won't know until you've tried all these parameter settings at the same time!
Are you loosing too many FPS?

[bogdac]

Well I have to tone my settings down a bit e.g. scaling at 200% and settings on high rather than ultra.

[BenganJ]

@bogdac

Yes, but that isn't any different to what you had, so skip my settings for the game,
Just pick the settings for NPI! And skip ReShade totally as you probably isn't using
it!

[bogdac]

Well having now made two journeys with all settings enabled I'm not sure if this is an observation or just my imagination :D , but the traffic seemed a bit more aggressive. ie normally I can force my way out of a junction or at a roundabout. This didn't seem to be the case tonight. But as I say I could be barking totally up the wrong tree.

[BenganJ]

@bogdac

Barking up the wrong tree? I would say 'barking up the whole forest'!
May I give you a tips? Look up in the first post what the parameters used are
good for! :D :D :D

[BenganJ]

Folks! After some more frenetic tests, I have now the following settings.

In game:

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Graphic settings on Ultra, Scaling on 400% and SMAA at Ultra.
Vertical Sync V-Sync, enabled.

In global config.cfg, these changes from default:

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uset r_buffer_page_size "30"
uset r_mirror_view_distance "900"
uset g_lod_factor_pedestrian "15"
uset g_lod_factor_parked "15"
uset g_lod_factor_traffic "15"

ReShade shaders enabled:

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TAA, NFAA and Smart_Sharp

NPI enhancements introduced, these 16 ones:

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--- Frame Rate Limiter 'Off'
--- Frame Rate Limiter Mode 'Default'
--- Maximum pre-rendered frames '3'
--- Antialiasing - Mode 'Application-controlled'
--- Antialiasing - Setting '4x [4x Multisampling]'
--- Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling '4x Sparse Grid Supersampling'
--- Anisotropic filtering mode 'User-defined / Off'
--- Anisotropic filtering setting '16x'
--- Texture filtering - LOD Bias (DX) '-1.0000'
--- Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias 'Allow'
--- Texture filtering - Quality 'High quality'
--- Ambient Occlusion setting 'High quality'
--- Ambient Occlusion usage 'Enabled'
--- Power management mode 'Prefer maximum performance'
--- Memory Allocation Policy '2' (WKS_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_POLICY_AGGRESSIVE_PRE_ALLOCATION)
--- SILK Smoothness '4'

From you I want testing the NPI settings, don't bother with all the other settings,
they depend very much on which hardware you have. Report back here what you,
at least think, get out of the tests.