shaun123 wrote:Well, just changed anisotropic filtering to 16x and anti-aliasing to 16x in the Nvidia Control Panel and in RW. It cleared up all the jagged lines and blurriness, it looks fantastic now actually!
Only problem is woeful frame rates/performance, as a result, any recommendations for settings to get performance/quality balance right?
Try 8x on the settings, 16x is kinda pushing it on a 8xxx series, I used to have one and it became really unstable trying to push 16x anti alias but adding AF ontop will cause it to chug like crazy as its trying to process all the usual stuff in railworks + graphics, have to remember railworks at the moment is still putting most of the graphics calcuations on the processor rather than the graphics card so have to adjust according. Reason being is physis X isn't being processed on the graphics card like it should be, in a ideal situation the physis X side of things either gets processed on a dedicated card or the graphics card, but Railworks currently cannot do this so it gets dumped onto the processor, also Railworks doesn't utilise multi cores either so thats another issue, got a quad core intel myself and only the first core getting used.
This isn't a knock at Railworks, just pointing out what its not ultilising, so you have to change settings to appeal to Railworks so lets not break into the arguement of "well railworks should do this and use this and that its 2011 already".
But anyway, when I had a older graphics card, 8x seemed to be more acceptable since anything higher put to much strain on the system, so try that, if it still is low FPS probably have to switch off AF and just leave anti alias on. Make sure to always do a test on the settings via the railworks launcher or it'll glitch up.
In regards to AA settings effecting performance, yes the higher levels put a impact upon performance since its straightening every edge ingame, plus with the things I mentioned above older cards will find it difficult and you will see the knock, the other thing to take into consideration is the AA mode, there is supersample, multi-sample and adaptive sample. Adaptive can cause issues with rolling stock making them lose portions of there model rendering them invisible, MS and SS to a certain extent put alot more strain on the system SS being the larger factor to this, I've found MS to be a acceptable medium.
You really have to just experiment when it comes down to the settings, some settings work great, while others don't, its just trying to find that happy medium which runs ok but doesn't look like a 5 year old just coloured it in with a wax crayon.
