Poor graphic quality after upgrading to nvidia 334.89

In nvidia control panel click right top corner "restore defaults" and leave the first tab on "let the 3d app decide" ! use only nv inspector. the control panel sucks.

 

I will try it out tonight and if still get poor results I will ask you for some screen images of your nvidia inspector/control panel settings.

Thanks!

 

Here are all my settings, been experimenting with the SLI bits in NV inspector and also trying to force AA in game but this still needs to be enabled in game otherwise no AA will be applied, quite likely there is no effect no matter what you set however the transparency settings in NV inspector do work as they should if forced.

I found that AF 16x works best when forced in driver but set at 0 in game, setting it to 16x in game and app controlled in driver doesnt look like 16x to me it gets better when setting 16x in game and drivers but still only looks like real 16x when done the way I do it.

Everything else I just set to the max IQ possible as my gpu's can handle it and with a full AI field load is quite low on the GPU's, The screens I took earlier were using these exact settings in a 16 car GT2 race. I have been using pretty much the same settings in earlier drivers too with no real difference just maybe a slight performance boost in SLI with the latest version but not much.

 

Thanks, Martcerv!
I tried out your settings in nvidia inspector and nvidia control panel and see no change.

It is as if my system can only go about 75% of AA. The game looks fine for the most part, but around the car windows, edges of some panels, and wings it is all jaggies as if the AA is not doing its full job. very strange.

The shadows in AC now look better. before they shadows were warping and flashing a lot, but now they are much better.

I should have followed the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
I give up! I don't have the time and energy to chase this problem. I will have to accept that AC will have poorer graphics on my current PC than iRacing (good excuse to build another computer this summer?). strange times, indeed!

Thanks to everyone for your help and recommendations! I really appreciate it.

 

I found a resolution for my problem.

For reasons unknown to me my computer system does not work well with any of the REFLECTION settings turned on in any combination in AC (even with a Win7 and AC reinstall and settings recommended by other AC users). If I turn off the cubemap settings then the game looks fantastic (minus any reflection fx ).

So, I will be missing out on some eye-candy and hopefully get it back in the future with a update or fix to my PC.

HEEEEEYYYYYY!! Another big shout out to Mr. Martcerv and others for your help!

 

This is confusing, so why are we using nvidia inspector when their are already those options available to us in the game? Is there a benefit to using nvidia inspector instead of AC for settings like FFXA, Framerate Limiter, Anisoptric Filtering?

 

I recommend taking a step back, and return to basic settings without using inspector before finetuning.I don't think tere is anything wrong with your system, it has to be wrong settings. I've tested quite thoroughly (Geforce 770), use the latest drivers and and I get very good results with the following settings, and the game looks still quite good

My standard in game settings, only tweaking it for Ai Races >12 Cars
- Cubes: High - very taxing on GPU, I lower it to medium or even low on bigger AI Races
-Faces: 4, don't go lower then 3 because has a great impact on "looks"
Turning both options to max has the biggest impact on performance and reduces FPS drastically

General recommendations:
- Motion Blu Off
- Locked camera to horizon On
- AF 8 or 16 doesn't make a big difference, I usually use 16 AF/8AA. Check in Nvdia Control Center that it uses ingame Filtering and antialiasing
- FAAA: Off, very taxing and doesn't make the game look better imho
- turn on vsync and triple buffering in nvdia
f there is a big grid, I use
- Cubes: Medium
- Smoke/shadow can be very taxing depending on track (Monza), time of day and amount of AI. Lower it, and disable smoke in mirrors
- minimize replay size in options
- enable VSync & triple buffer in nvidia control panel
- use in game AF 8/16

I find that with HDR on, World Detail to max, I easily get high framerates and good looks well beyond the 60fps. Here is a very good starting point to max out your systems grafix
http://steamcommunity.com/app/244210/discussions/0/666825525296642878/

Hope that helps in some way and and that you sort the problem out.

 

I really like ac motion blur and how it does it though, it is one of the better motion blurs in games i have seen since i barely notice it less i am really looking for it or the cars in full spin out.

Bit of a rant but my buddy made me buy star citizen the other day and the forced motion blur in that is hideous makes me nautious when i try and look around.

 

Hi,
I do not know if this was for me or dkwuan?

I will answer. As mentioned above I did a complete reinstall of Windows7 and AC and started at square one. I have this same problem.

 

Here is my Nvinspector settings and screens for my not so strong GPU ;o) (334.89 drivers)

 

The rendered frames will look the same with a weak or strong gpu, they will only need more time to be rendered with the weaker.

 

Part of the original post were lost I just wanted to show my nvinspector settings for less powerful GPU (only 2xAA + 2xSparseAAtransparency) 4xAA+4xSparseAA killing much more fps for me. This dramatically improved AA quality only with 2xAA. Currently AC settings (8xAA, 8xAF, FastAA off) + nvinspector.
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/3281175896886378475/CAC5660EA1C12B2FF7001B9E2E0E1D7C94E593E4/
Minimum fps loss ;o)
PS: This is the same, just "enhance" instead of "overide" (Antialiasing-mode)
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/3281175896876956845/E92A909E47132DA1762751E301C5F392AE1C08F1/