Depending on computer hardware configuration the Nvidia control panel settings may have some differences compared to what is shown here.

Desktop System Config

1. Single monitor.
2. No Gsync monitor.
3. Fast Vsync supported by Graphics card
4. Single Graphics card.
5. 8 GB Graphics RAM.

This config should work for high-end systems.

• Select “Use the advanced 3D image settings“

GLOBAL Settings

Global settings allow the user to do setting that is applied to all the programs that uses the GPU. Do settings as shown below.

Ambient Occlusion :     Off
Anisotropic filtering: Application-Controlled

Antialiasing – FXAA :    Off
Antialiasing – Gamma Correction :   Off
Antialiasing – Mode :     Application-Controlled
Antialiasing – Transparency :    Off

CUDA – GPUs :   All

Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames: Application-Controlled

Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) : On
Power Management Mode: Optimal Power
Shader Cache: On

Texture Filtering – Anisotropic Sample Optimization :   Off
Texture Filtering – Negative LOD Bias :    Allow
Texture filtering – Quality :    High Quality
Texture Filtering – Trilinear Optimization:   Off

Threaded Optimization :    Auto
Triple buffering :    Off

Vertical Sync : Fast

• Click “Apply” to apply to global settings.

 

• If  (Vertical Sync : Fast)  is not available then, do settings as shown below
• Triple buffering :    On
• Vertical Sync : Adaptive

Program Settings allows user to do custom settings for each individual programs.

You may need to do custom settings for each game.

• Using drop-down menu as shown below you can select the Program for which you want to do custom settings.

• If a program is not shown in the menu, you can add it manually by click “Add” button as shown below.

• Select a Program to add or click “Browse” to find the program in the hard disk.
• Then Click “Add Selected Program“

 

• Select the GPU as “Processor: ” for PhyX ,

• Here you can select the resolution of the display.
• Slect

• It is recommended that you select scaling mode as “Aspect ratio“
• Select  “GPU” for “Perform scaling on:“

• “Adjust video colour settings” allows the user to the set various parameter of “video playback“
• If you want Nvidia GPU to set Colour and Gamma settings then select “With Nvidia settings“

• Under Advanced tab, select “Full (0-255)” for “Dynamic range:“

• Similarly, you can use Nvidia GPU for “Edge enhancement” and “Noise Reduction” in a video being played in Media Player. This setting overrides Media Player Settings so that “Edge enhancement” and “Noise Reduction” is done by GPU instead of media player.

OTHER SETTINGS

• You may tick “Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area“

• Nvidia GPU Activity in the Notification Area.

• In System Information you can see the various info about NVIDIA GPU and the computer system.

DOING CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR INDIVIDUAL GAMES

If you want to do custom settings for an individual game, select the game under “Select a program to custmize”

Most important custom settings are

1. Anisotropic filtering ( AF )
2. Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames

 

Anisotropic filtering setting overrides in-game AF setting.

First, try to use ( Anisotropic filtering : 16x ). If you see a drop in game FPS then lower it to ( Anisotropic filtering: 8x )

For fast-paced games, Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames should be minimum which is 1. You may set a higher number for slow paced games, if you don’t experience a lag in game.

• Example 1

• Example 2

Lesser important settings is Antialiasing – Mode. Since most games have inbuilt Antialiasing setting, so don’t need to do any custom setting in it.

• Antialiasing – Mode
• Antialiasing – Setting

But if an old game does not have in-built Antialiasing setting then you can enable Nvidia Antialiasing, which will override the in-game settings.

Antialiasing – Mode : Overide any application setting
Antialiasing – Setting : 8x

• Example 3