#Spec ops the line sweetfx Pc#

The observant amongst you will see I’ve modified by graphics card’s BIOS – more on that in another post… Also, the latest version of this has a small bug which displays the overclocking section of the program upon start-up, whereas it should be hidden and then you click “Show Overclocking” to reveal it. So, what does it do? Lots of things! Upon loading it up, it will display information about your graphics card. Like with Spec Ops, sometimes there’s none!įirst up is NVIDIA Inspector, which can be downloaded from here.

#Spec ops the line sweetfx Pc#

PC games vary, although there’s usually a choice of MSAA, CSAA (another older method) and more recently FXAA – it’s up to the developer. I won’t go into too much detail as to how each work, but the more popular methods are FXAA (less demanding, a post-process technique but can cause too much blur for some people), MSAA (demanding technique but is effective), SSAA (very demanding but effective – renders the screen at a higher resolution and then downsamples it), SMAA (another post-process technique like FXAA, less demanding and quite effective) TXAA (new, NVIDIA-only method which is a mixture of FXAA and MSAA – works well, but hardware limited).Ĭonsole games either have no anti-aliasing or tend to implement some form of FXAA as it is cheap on resources and fairly effective. There’s several different types of anti-aliasing with varying degrees of effectiveness and efficiency.

For those that don’t know, anti-aliasing is a technique used to smooth jagged lines by implementing a blur – there’s some screenshots further down. The first thing I noticed upon loading it up was the lack of any anti-aliasing. One such example that I’ve been playing recently is Spec Ops: The Line – itself a decent game which runs well on my PC however it lacks some visual enhancements. These corners are normally visual – things such as tessellation, anti-aliasing and ambient occlusion. Unfortunately, because the majority of games are developed for the much weaker consoles means that developers have to cut corners to maintain an achievable frame rate and have the game running smoothly. Sometimes, they do and sometimes they don’t. The fact that a modern gaming PC (or even a household PC of a value of around £500) is much more powerful than a console, which contain budget-priced hardware from 7 years ago, should mean that games developed for a PC should run and look much better.

In the days where around 95% of games have a home console (Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) as the lead development platform, it means that the PC versions are usually ports – sometimes shoddy, sometimes on a par with their console versions and sometimes improved, including higher resolution textures and DirectX 11 features. There are similar tools available for AMD cards, although I have no experience with them. As its name would suggest, you’ll need an NVIDIA graphics card to run Inspector. In this blog, I’ll focus on NVIDIA Inspector, and in the next one SweetFX. These 2 utilities are NVIDIA Inspector and SweetFX. In my next 2 blog posts I’m going to be talking about a couple of great utilities to enhance the way your games look by adding various effects that may not be present by default.