Does The NVIDIA Driver's OpenGL Image Settings Affect The Performance Much?

[haplo602]

The question is, did you install the driver and NOT touch any other settings in it ? This seems to be a composite slider that sets AA/AF/Vsync etc when you move it. So if you change anything of the other settings manually, this will have little impact.

[Michael]

It could be that that game is CPU-limited in that benchmark. I find most of the Source-based games are.

Did you click the OpenBenchmarking.org link with all the other tests?

[Michael]

Some more demanding game and testing the Anti-Aliasing settings would be more interesting,

how about BioShock Infinite ?

Also notice the quality degradation with FXAA

I forgot having selected it for testing then got in a panic once I discovered that fonts were occasionally blurry in spots and not in others upon installation of KDE Plasma 5,

this led to several installations and un-installations

until I found the saving information on an Arch Forum Thread

Did you click the OpenBenchmarking.org link with all the other tests?

[Michael]

More importantly where are the screenshots for each quality setting?

Did you read the article?

[johnc]

It could be that that game is CPU-limited in that benchmark. I find most of the Source-based games are.

[kernelOfTruth]

Some more demanding game and testing the Anti-Aliasing settings would be more interesting,

how about BioShock Infinite ?

Also notice the quality degradation with FXAA

I forgot having selected it for testing then got in a panic once I discovered that fonts were occasionally blurry in spots and not in others upon installation of KDE Plasma 5,

this led to several installations and un-installations

until I found the saving information on an Arch Forum Thread

[birdie]

More importantly where are the screenshots for each quality setting?

[andre30correia]

testing with a 980? test it with mid or low end card,..

[dungeon]

It seems nothing can stop nvidia, even its own settings ... Maybe driver is designed just for benchmarking

[microcode]

Possible they leave it in so that people feel like they can do something to improve the performance or quality of rendering, as a placebo.