aTuner - what's allowed?

I was testing this tool called aTuner a little bit, exspecially to get a little better FPS in QuakeWars. So besides turning things like Antialaising OFF I clicked "OpenGL extra", then "optimize" and "maximum performance". This turned among other things "OpenGL MIP-map LOD bias" to 0.5 or something... But since I read, that this setting causes things like disappearing crosshairs and trees, I set it back to default (0).

In et:qw my fps improved a little bit.. instead of very unstable 10-30 before I got nearly stable 30 on a server with 10 players on different maps (sometimes when lots of explosions happen I stilll have drops to 20 fps though). Even in ET my fps improved a bit, I nearly get 125 on every map now :) well nearly... but I think it's better than before.

My question is: Are those settings I made allowed? As I said, I can't see through bushes or trees (in both et and et:qw), my crosshair looks fine, Textures seem to be as detailed as before. The biggest difference I can see is, that straight lines are not really straight but... well my english leaves me in the lurch now (i guess this sentence was bullshit, too). Just take a look at the following screenshots:

image: atuner

image: goldrush1

image: goldrush2
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imo allowed but u will find after a week u got banned by PB. just like that fucking hacking tool called Macromedia Dreamweaver!!!
screenies seems ok
ass long you dont see thrue walls it fine btw fuck bushes and trees @ hitsounds
The changes you've made are ok. Just don't touch the MipMap bias, leave that one at 0.

Why are you rendering 3 frames ahead, and not 2? I would leave it at 2 to be honest.
I have no idea what's faster, as I wrote I just took the "Maximum performance" profile...
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I see, well I always leave that one at 2. Never tried 3 eventhough the slider puts it at 3.

image: th_00468_untitled_123_171lo

I see we have the same driver. I do think that I'm going to uninstall this driver though. My Q3 is crashing from time to time with this driver.
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(19:02:55) (malczik) 3on3 skilled noserv now
nothing wrong setting lodbias to 0.5
just use common sense as long as u dont see trough bushes or walls or what ever ur fine
with 0.5 my crosshair was blurry...
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I think you guys need some other programs to see trough walls than Atuner/Rivatuner. Changing lodbias won't make you see trough walls and the effect on your performance is minimal..
it will make you see through trees like razz though ;) but I dont want that. and i noticed a little increase of performance ...
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How much did it increase then?
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Well he got huge FPS boost, it's WAY easier to hit, and You dont need to worry about trees and stuffs.
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(18:19:08) (+sQ|alhric) lol
How can you play with such ugly setting lol =D
pretty much same as mine, just that mine is 5 times darker
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image: shot0000qi1

Although I use different cross hair colour now.
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That's really dark lol :0
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makes the opponents "glow" a bit more if they are standing in the light, if they are in the dark, i cant really see shit : D
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go play with your private haxx! LOL!

fucking retard...
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hi, my name is ng! nice to meet you, 'moron'.
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Go entertain yourself at someone else's expense, you bore me.
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the irc is miranda SE: http://miranda-se.de/
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