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Quoted from TviQ

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Don’t have the ATItraytool.exe running close it or else you wont be able to watch youtube or play games :)

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its not effecting the fps at all.

I used to get slightly less fps, but the difference was negligible. Haven’t noticed anything now that I switched to nvidia, though.

Quoted from rytis

I have this error with nvidiaInspector :
the application failed to initialize properly (blabla). Click on OK to terminate the application :D
any ideas why?

did you changed xml for higher lod?
if yes use this: http://www.2shared.com/document/1I8CXibm/CustomSettingNames_en-EN.html

How do I actually change the xml file for higher lod? Tried few things but didn’t work.

Yeah did that and didn’t work. I guess there’s something I’m doing wrong here.

Quoted from slate

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you can download this: http://www.sl8.eu/files/nvidia.zip

that’s the Tool chris mentioned and I’ve already added the options to select values higher than 3.

1. Open NvidiaInspector.exe
2. Click the Settings button (middle-right) next to Driver-Version
3. Select Team Fortress 2 in the top left corner
4. Set Texture Filtering – LOD-Bias to 10 or 15 (higher means worse textures)
5. hit “Apply” in the top right corner.

This is also better than the RivaTuner thing, because it only affects Team Fortress and you dont need to change the settings everytime you want to play another game without ridculously bad textures.

-slate

EDIT: If you don’t feel like downloading te program off my site

download it here:

octochris:
RT doesn’t work with newer driver versions (I think it breaks with 2xx). Use NVIDIA Inspector instead, it works with 2xx, and it’s better for stuff like this anyway.

http://majorgeeks.com/NVIDIA_Inspector_d6630.html

extract it and replace the contents of the CustomSettingNames*.xml
with the one from the paste in the quote below. (line 207-214 have been added, if you want to just add those)

the xml with options for higher LOD-Bias added: http://pastie.org/2274851

you dont need to adjust the xml-file if you downloaded NvidiaInspector from the link in the OP.

Also: NvidiaInspector is for Driver-Versions > 2xx

.xml File Replacement
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where to install it?