Need help setting up Ti 4200

[Black Ice]

Im not shure what the best settings would be for the G force 4 Ti 4200 would be . For example the Anisotropic filtering do I leave it disabled or set it to 2x ,4x ,8x . And all the other settings
Any one who has a Ti 4200 and does a lot of gamming how do you have youres set up

[wolfie]

i pretty much leave all that stuff alone. i just use a tweaker to play with the card.

wolfie

[Blakhart]

All those options, save for fast mimapping, will decrease performance. They are there to allow one to get a better image out of the card. They are very gpu and memory intensive options, and I never run them. Fast mipmapping will increase performance but will look like poop and may make games, umm, "jerky" kinda.
I routinely disable aniso, antialiasing, and pretty much leave it at 16 bit colour. A good card will make outstanding images at 16 bit, a poor one will have major jaggies all over. You will come to know jaggies. They will be most apparent around say where a building meets the ground surrounding it.
You need a refresh rate fix and coolbits to overclock the gpu and to set a minimum refresh rate while in games. XP defaults to 60Hz when in games.
Wolfie can help you overclock the card.

[Texuspete00]

If you have a fast card, you may be robbing yourself with evrything off. Check out articles on your card. For instance, my 8500 does well w/aniso, not AA. I put the AA at 4x often. Ever play a first person shooter and at a certain distance point where the textures start to fuzz, and it moves along as you run down the hall, aniso clears much of that up for me ( serious sam 2 comes to mind). In Jedi Knight 2, i get over 100fps, more than my eye can see, so i put up the AA (jaggie eliminator) a bit. Most games have a way to display the fps, features put stress on the card, but at over 100fps or so, your cpu might be the bottleneck, video card has power to burn. Otherwise, your card is still more future proof, but you are wasting some of what you paid for in my opinion.

My advice up that stuff when playing an older game, if you experience slow down in something newer, lower it back down or shut it off. Oh yeah, and don't up this stuff at the expense of resolution.

[grimfandango]

enablein FSAA will really reduce your performance butwill give you a better picture quality ..


if you want good frame rates you leave it disabled..

or else enable it

[Tecy]

Generaly I leave all AA off and set the game resoloution as high as I can and see what takes more of a hit.

So far my Geforce 4 4200 has been coping very well with games set to 32 colour and 32 bit textures at 1280 x 768 res.

If your frame rate hi I will start to use more of the cards features as for me there is little or no point in having a game running at 120fps when you could have better graphics at 60fps.

You just got to tweek things write them down. All games are different so there realy is no default setting if you what to use your card at best performance.

[Black Ice]

well I took the 4200 back to the store and got my money back.
Now I have a g4 mx420 and an extra 256mb of rambus. The 420 is not as good as the 4200 but it will do just fine untill the 9700 comes out.

[Tecy]

Why did you take it back was it faulty?

[Black Ice]

Tecy
I'm not shure if it was faulty or not. I just know at defalt settings right out of the box with the newest drivers . I noticed some jagged lines not smooth and it was not smooth flowing, it was kinda jerky in quake 3 arena and all my other games. I did ask how to set it up but no one could explane to me just what I needed to set . maby I just did not understand them or maby I just asked the rong questions. But for $199.00 I expect it to work good not jurky and jagged grafics. I did get some good frame rates.

[Tecy]

It sound faulty to me unless you had somthink on your system conflicting with it. My card with default drivers run very very quick compared to my GF 2 MX400 and I got a very good 3DMARK 2001 score too which was 7762 and with new drivers and over clocking got to 8640.