Negative values make like a sharpen effect, so that the game looks more detailed, positive values decrease texture quality but also 2d "things", like your crosshair.
I can't say.
I don't think it's illegal, you need to stay in a decent range.
But you will see, it makes you crosshair pretty blurry before having a nice untextured game :)
And you shouldn't use it, it would make all the guys who take pbss whine.
Yes, i know, but most people thinks high lod = rivatuner = hax.
So i don't think its a good idea, since you can have a pretty untextured game with picmip 3 & simplemipmaps 0.
You can use rivatuner to tweak your settings, as long as you do not use high lodbias. Afaik you had to make a new lodbiasrange variable, set the range to 15 or so. Then you could change lodbias in rivatuner to razz-levels. If you haven't changed the rivatuner poweruser/registry settings you can't do anything wrong with it.
ps: if you are using standard or stock drivers check if prerendered frames is put at 2. Standard drivers put them at 3 for increased performance, although 2 is better for input and faster reactiontimes. dunno how you can change this feature with ati.
download a few configs, most of them have lots of descriptions next to the variables. Afaik its the geometrical detail wheras 0 is default high quality and 2 is highest performance. Afaik it gives you the epileptic textures which aren't rendered properly and 'flash' when moving.
Anisotropic doesn't help :P I use AF x2 as it gives a sharper image, but when I tried the interface config It was liek I wus at teh cubl. Maybe TAA can fix it, using AA is just so 2003 ;)
ok because i have ati drivers and i set the configurations to lowest, but my crosshair is blurry.. but i get very smooth textures and better fps. but i cant see through trees and so on. the only problm would be the crosshair, hard to track with fosho.
crosshair blurring is caused by bad mipmapping settings, use highest quality for those. normally grafic driver settings dont really affect ET that much, unless you turn on VSYNC or AA / AF
im not that good with those commands. i understand th highr r_mode the easier it is to get a small clear crosshair, i tried r_mode 2 and people turned into 20 squares :P. how do i turn on vsync or AA/ AF ? i have ati drivers
i have both video and quality settings to low, but still i manage to have a reasonably visible crosshair, but that is trying r_mode 6, i will try with lower r_modes and see what i get :). ill post a pic !!
but you can force it with rivatuner.
Negative values make like a sharpen effect, so that the game looks more detailed, positive values decrease texture quality but also 2d "things", like your crosshair.
I don't think it's illegal, you need to stay in a decent range.
But you will see, it makes you crosshair pretty blurry before having a nice untextured game :)
And you shouldn't use it, it would make all the guys who take pbss whine.
So i don't think its a good idea, since you can have a pretty untextured game with picmip 3 & simplemipmaps 0.
ps: if you are using standard or stock drivers check if prerendered frames is put at 2. Standard drivers put them at 3 for increased performance, although 2 is better for input and faster reactiontimes. dunno how you can change this feature with ati.
it doesent work wth ati cards right?
download a few configs, most of them have lots of descriptions next to the variables. Afaik its the geometrical detail wheras 0 is default high quality and 2 is highest performance. Afaik it gives you the epileptic textures which aren't rendered properly and 'flash' when moving.
(But playing with AF 16x isn't really smooth.)
you are looking for Temporal Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering.
here the crosshair is hard to see but for me it seems easier to see than on the screenshot, may have to do with resizing i dunno. but i like it !