a while ago we did a video demystifying all the different settings in your
computer's BIOS that we think you should tweak but today we're going to take a
look at certain graphics cards options that you might want to fine-tune because
hey who doesn't want more performance you know but hold on a second i have all my
settings the way i like them inside of the games i play isn't that good enough
well to some extent but there are other options that you can instead turn on in
either the NVIDIA control panel or Radeon settings that can still make
things look quite a bit better let's start with a very simple one
resolution modern lcd displays have a fixed amount of pixels arranged in a
grid meaning that optimally you want your graphics card output signals at the
screen's native resolution if you don't have that your system will have to
upscale the image in order to fit into that pixel grid an inexact science that
will leave your images looking not quite right so make sure that your resolution
is set correctly before doing anything else and on the subject of scaling one
scaling method that actually will make your images look better is super
sampling this is essentially when your GPU renders frames at a higher
resolution than what your monitor supports and then down scales this image
to fit it's essentially a supercharged version of anti-aliasing but do keep in
mind it's very computationally expensive so it might only work well if you're
pairing a powerful GPU with a low res monitor or if you're trying it on an
older easier to run game if you have an NVIDIA card super sampling is called
dynamic super resolution while AMD calls it virtual super resolution and you can
force these settings on even if the game you're playing doesn't offer them a
couple of other settings that you can force on outside of games are ambient
occlusion and anisotropic filtering ambient occlusion is a technique that
makes shadows look better by examining how bright pixels should be based on
geometry and then figuring out where light should be blocked it's almost like
a simpler form of ray tracing almost meanwhile anisotropic filtering helps
make objects in the distance look sharper although many games do have an
option for it turning on in your GPU settings instead can look better in some
circumstances and it's also not very hard on your frame rate so why not
another good thing to check is your power management settings typically your
GPU will operate at a fairly low clock speed and then ramp up when you're
playing a game and while this usually happens without a hitch power management
has been known to cause issues in some games that shouldn't be very hard to run
so if a game like this is behaving strangely try turning the settings to
max performance though expect a little more fan noise moving on one setting
that you should probably always have turned on as long as you have the drive
space for it is shader cache which helps
to speed up loading times especially for larger levels if you're rocking a Radeon
card setting it to AMD optimize means shader cache is turned on and if we're
talking improving frame rates instead of loading times consider setting vertical
sync to triple buffering if you're using vsync to avoid screen tearing triple
buffering keeps an extra frame in your GPU's frame buffer so it's not waiting
around for something else to work on which can result in better performance
if you're having slow downs with vsync however do keep in mind
it can introduce input lag so pick your poison and speaking of tearing
verify that either g-sync or freesync is actually enabled if you have a monitor
and a card that supports these technologies sometimes they aren't
active by default and you obviously don't want to have spent a bunch of
money on a fancy variable refresh rate monitor just to discover that you've
left the feature disabled for the last six months
and one last thing to check on if some of your older games look a bit too dark
and there's no way to fix it in the in-game settings try playing with your
GPU's gamma options however graphics cards only tend to let you adjust this
globally so you'll have to remember to change it back once you're done gaming
so that's it then what are your best pro tips for getting the most out of your
graphics card let us know in the comments and feel free to scream if
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