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so we recently did a video on which graphics card settings you might want to

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think about tweaking but there are way too many to fit into a five-minute

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episode so we're back today with the second helping

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the first thing we're gonna mention is something you've probably seen in the options of most of your favorite games

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anti-aliasing simply put anti-aliasing

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smooths out the edges of objects and helps eliminate jaggies that stair-step

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effect you see sometimes when your GPU renders a diagonal line still unclear

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why it isn't called anti-jagging what's confusing though is that there are many

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different types of anti-aliasing and games don't all offer the same types the

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type that will usually get you the best visual results is called super sample

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anti-aliasing or ssaa where your GPU

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renders the game at a higher resolution and scales it down to fit your screen

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but unsurprisingly this is very computationally intensive and so it

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isn't a practical option for many gamers instead you might want

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to try an algorithm such as msaa or txaa

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which are similar to ssaa in that they sample more of the image to be rendered

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but instead of rendering the whole image at a higher resolution they only do this

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near the trouble spots that can cause those nasty jaggies we were talking

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about so you get a smoother image without as much of a performance penalty

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but if these options still tank your frame rate too much you can try an even

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lighter form of anti-aliasing such as fxaa or smaa which scans the scene for

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edges and blurs them this results in only a minimal hit to your performance

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though you may find the resultant images too blurry for your liking the best

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thing to do in that scenario is to try different aaa modes and see which one

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strikes the best balance of performance and quality for you though we will say

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some kind of aa is typically better than nothing moving on another setting you

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should definitely take for a spin is tessellation this is a technique that

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multiplies the number of polygons on a texture giving it bumps curves and depth

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in some games it can make the environment look slightly better and in

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others it can have a massive impact the good news is that tessellation tends not

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to be very hard on your GPU so give it a shot even if you don't have the highest

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end graphics card in many cases it's a nearly free quality boost

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hey here's another one especially for those of you that suffer from motion

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sickness field of view you see humans

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have a rather wide field of view naturally if you stick your ARM straight

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out to your side you can probably still see them through your peripheral vision

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i can't see my arms right now however many games give you a default

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fov much smaller than what you might see naturally which can decrease immersion

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put you at a competitive disadvantage and confuse your brain enough to make

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you feel car sick so try increasing the setting if your view seems narrow at the

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very least you'll be able to see more of your surroundings but make sure not to

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overdo it as this can result in too much of a fisheye effect now for a setting

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that requires newer hardware like this rtx 3090 water cooled one of these

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settings is dlss or deep learning super sampling which is exclusive to NVIDIA

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cards and uses ai to increase visual fidelity without putting your GPU

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through too much extra work and in some games it can increase quality to a level

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that would otherwise render the game unplayable without dlss but if you have

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an AMD card don't despair as their competing technology fsr is due out

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later in 2021 finally let's talk about some of the more cinematic settings like

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bloom film grain and motion blur

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do we have motion blur in our videos these effects can give your games a

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dramatic look which some gamers enjoy but others feel they make the game look

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fake and they can even be a little disorienting it's not necessarily better

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or worse to have them on or off and they usually don't impact frame rate too much

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though competitive gamers tend to dislike motion blur so try them out if

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you like them but in the end these settings are mostly a matter of personal

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preference are there any other settings that you like to tweak dials and knobs

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that you love to twist let us know down in the comments and we wish you luck

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with getting your games looking just right if only there were a setting to

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make your GPU go as fast as you wanted without spending a thousand bucks that

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would be nice and it would break the economy

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