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a while ago we did a video demystifying all the different settings in your

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computer's BIOS that we think you should tweak but today we're going to take a

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look at certain graphics cards options that you might want to fine-tune because

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hey who doesn't want more performance you know but hold on a second i have all my

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settings the way i like them inside of the games i play isn't that good enough

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well to some extent but there are other options that you can instead turn on in

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either the NVIDIA control panel or Radeon settings that can still make

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things look quite a bit better let's start with a very simple one

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resolution modern lcd displays have a fixed amount of pixels arranged in a

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grid meaning that optimally you want your graphics card output signals at the

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screen's native resolution if you don't have that your system will have to

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upscale the image in order to fit into that pixel grid an inexact science that

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will leave your images looking not quite right so make sure that your resolution

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is set correctly before doing anything else and on the subject of scaling one

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scaling method that actually will make your images look better is super

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sampling this is essentially when your GPU renders frames at a higher

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resolution than what your monitor supports and then down scales this image

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to fit it's essentially a supercharged version of anti-aliasing but do keep in

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mind it's very computationally expensive so it might only work well if you're

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pairing a powerful GPU with a low res monitor or if you're trying it on an

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older easier to run game if you have an NVIDIA card super sampling is called

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dynamic super resolution while AMD calls it virtual super resolution and you can

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force these settings on even if the game you're playing doesn't offer them a

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couple of other settings that you can force on outside of games are ambient

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occlusion and anisotropic filtering ambient occlusion is a technique that

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makes shadows look better by examining how bright pixels should be based on

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geometry and then figuring out where light should be blocked it's almost like

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a simpler form of ray tracing almost meanwhile anisotropic filtering helps

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make objects in the distance look sharper although many games do have an

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option for it turning on in your GPU settings instead can look better in some

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circumstances and it's also not very hard on your frame rate so why not

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another good thing to check is your power management settings typically your

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GPU will operate at a fairly low clock speed and then ramp up when you're

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playing a game and while this usually happens without a hitch power management

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has been known to cause issues in some games that shouldn't be very hard to run

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so if a game like this is behaving strangely try turning the settings to

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max performance though expect a little more fan noise moving on one setting

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that you should probably always have turned on as long as you have the drive

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space for it is shader cache which helps

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to speed up loading times especially for larger levels if you're rocking a Radeon

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card setting it to AMD optimize means shader cache is turned on and if we're

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talking improving frame rates instead of loading times consider setting vertical

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sync to triple buffering if you're using vsync to avoid screen tearing triple

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buffering keeps an extra frame in your GPU's frame buffer so it's not waiting

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around for something else to work on which can result in better performance

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if you're having slow downs with vsync however do keep in mind

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it can introduce input lag so pick your poison and speaking of tearing

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verify that either g-sync or freesync is actually enabled if you have a monitor

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and a card that supports these technologies sometimes they aren't

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active by default and you obviously don't want to have spent a bunch of

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money on a fancy variable refresh rate monitor just to discover that you've

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left the feature disabled for the last six months

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and one last thing to check on if some of your older games look a bit too dark

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and there's no way to fix it in the in-game settings try playing with your

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GPU's gamma options however graphics cards only tend to let you adjust this

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globally so you'll have to remember to change it back once you're done gaming

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so that's it then what are your best pro tips for getting the most out of your

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graphics card let us know in the comments and feel free to scream if

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