[DX11] Help regarding Nvidia Profile Inspector (NPI)

[hecatonchires]

@benganj, check your PM please, thanks

[danilozxf]

Someone with a monitor with freesync could help me, I activated the function on the monitor and I still feel that the game is not fluid when the fps fall, for example, between 50 and 60 it seems that it is not working properly.

Someone could give me the settings I should use, I bought the new monitor but so far I haven't noticed many differences

[BenganJ]

@danilozxf

Freesync is an AMD feature ONLY working on AMD graphics cards. What you need
is a monitor which supports G-Sync or has G-Sync compatibility! G-Sync is Nvidas
corresponding feature!

[danilozxf]

@danilozxf

Freesync is an AMD feature ONLY working on AMD graphics cards. What you need
is a monitor which supports G-Sync or has G-Sync compatibility! G-Sync is Nvidas
corresponding feature!

@BenganJ

Sorry for my ignorance, but does freesync not act in the same way as Gsync? and freesync also doesn't work with nvidia cards?

[BenganJ]

@danilozxf

Freesync and G-Sync are two different solutions for the same feature, made by the two
largest graphic card companies, ONLY to be used on their respective cards.
Freesync on AMD cards
G-Sync on Nvidia cards
BUT, there are monitors out there that support both systems.

EDIT: After visiting Wikipedia I found this statement, but don't ask me for more info about how to use it!

NVidia 10-series, 16-series and 20-series GPUs with driver version 417.71 or higher support FreeSync

And I know we have discussed this earlier in this thread!

[toni1958]

@ BenganJ & JHTrucker

evening guys, hope you are both well.
didn't go up in smoke so that's got to be a good thing, had a quick go tonight and things looking good so far. Upped everything in game to "high", left default refresh, vert sync disabled, SMAA and SSAO off. Tried still on 2 x AA and all was pretty smooth with FPS sitting about 29-30 and GPU at less than 50% so upped AA to 4x which made GPU around 75%. Jumped in with both feet then and went to 8AA, GPU went up a bit but picture quality was far superior, I noticed that most of the flickering on overhead wires had gone on 4xAA, but is so much more crisp on 8AA. I do however have a major stutter/freeze every 90 seconds or so whether it be 2xAA, 4xAA or 8 but I have noticed some errors/warnings in game log so will try a new profile tomorrow and see whether that cures it. Can you tell me what the difference between 8x, 8xQ, 8xS and 8xSQ is in the antialiasing setting in NPI is please? At the moment I am on 8xQ(Multisampling) and 8x sparse grid supersampling, all other settings in NPI are as you have suggested last week and vertical sync is still 1/2 refresh rate.

[guigehlen]

@danilozxf & @BenganJ

After the Nvidia driver version 417.71, all NVIDIA gfx cards from series RTX 10xx or newer support freesync, but only through Display Port 1.2 or higher! On HDMI the freesync doesn't work on NVIDIA cards, only on AMD cards!

[BenganJ]

@toni1958

As far as we have been able to establish, 4x AA is the most you can achieve, so that 8x
may be just wishful thinking. Are you sure you get any effect by raising from 4x to 8x?
Regarding that 90 second freezing, which Steam Launch Options do you have?

[JHTrucker]

@toni1958 - Good you're up and running again.
As you can see the jump from 2x to 4x is still quite a leap in gpu usage, so like i said previously, keep with 30 fps or you'll end up constantly fiddling with settings trying to maintain 60fps and failing because of your 5760x1080 resolution.
That being said, i think you should now default all the vsync options in NPI so the only thing controlling vsync is config.cfg - vsync="2". No 1/2 refresh rate or vsync off in NPI!
As BenganJ said, there's no difference above 4xAA, it's just 4xAA. I think DX11 isn't as flexible with this as DX9 was and so we are lucky 4xAA can atleast be applied.
But if you see a difference that's better for you, use it.
Were you comparing the same overhead lines? SCS have been replacing those slowly across the maps so their crap smaa will work with them so it's possible you compared different ones?
Your biggest problem is your 40" centre screen, the pixels are 4 times bigger than the same resolution on a 20" screen. So you really need 8x whereas at 20" 4x is enough.
If you attach your current multimon_config.sii with the different size monitors i'll supply a replacement with scaling options you can also try...

[JHTrucker]

@danilozxf - You should read this --> viewtopic.php?p=27427#p27427