Anyone experienced with Nvidia video cards please?

I have the Nvidia GeForce4 TI 4200 with AGP8X - 128 megs of
memory. It's being used in a Gateway Pentium 4, 1 Gig of memory. The
driver for the card is now 6.1.7.6 (put in today)

Every few days, the game changes my "Terrain" graphics
settings to the lowest possible level. I can turn them back up with no
problem, but I seem to end up with a great deal of lag.

How do I set the nvidia controls to best suit the game?
Specifically, the following:

Image Settings - High Performance, Performance, or Quality
Antialiasing Settings - Application Controlled, or one of the others
Anisotropic Filtering - Application Controlled, or one of the others

I have a cable internet connection. The lag is really
noticeable when driving my Swoop through a swampy area. Maybe this is
normal?

I'd really like to get the video card set for the best
combination of speed and high quality, but I'm not a real "techy" type
(if you haven't guessed already!!!)

Thanks for any input in advance!!!

you didnt mention the speed of your processor, that has alot to do with it.
-tmh

"Yabu" <dcorio@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> I have the Nvidia GeForce4 TI 4200 with AGP8X - 128 megs of
> memory. It's being used in a Gateway Pentium 4, 1 Gig of memory. The
> driver for the card is now 6.1.7.6 (put in today)
>
> Every few days, the game changes my "Terrain" graphics
> settings to the lowest possible level. I can turn them back up with no
> problem, but I seem to end up with a great deal of lag.
>
> How do I set the nvidia controls to best suit the game?
> Specifically, the following:
>
> Image Settings - High Performance, Performance, or Quality
> Antialiasing Settings - Application Controlled, or one of the others
> Anisotropic Filtering - Application Controlled, or one of the others
>
> I have a cable internet connection. The lag is really
> noticeable when driving my Swoop through a swampy area. Maybe this is
> normal?
>
> I'd really like to get the video card set for the best
> combination of speed and high quality, but I'm not a real "techy" type
> (if you haven't guessed already!!!)
>
> Thanks for any input in advance!!!
>
>

Sorry - Pentium speed is 2.8 Ghz


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:30:31 GMT, "TMH" <Smilazzo@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>you didnt mention the speed of your processor, that has alot to do with it.
>-tmh
>
>"Yabu" <dcorio@adelphia.net> wrote in message
>news:i7sqf0laq923ph2bur7lhhvrpu2lemv4t4@4ax.com.. .
>> I have the Nvidia GeForce4 TI 4200 with AGP8X - 128 megs of
>> memory. It's being used in a Gateway Pentium 4, 1 Gig of memory. The
>> driver for the card is now 6.1.7.6 (put in today)
>>
>> Every few days, the game changes my "Terrain" graphics
>> settings to the lowest possible level. I can turn them back up with no
>> problem, but I seem to end up with a great deal of lag.
>>
>> How do I set the nvidia controls to best suit the game?
>> Specifically, the following:
>>
>> Image Settings - High Performance, Performance, or Quality
>> Antialiasing Settings - Application Controlled, or one of the others
>> Anisotropic Filtering - Application Controlled, or one of the others
>>
>> I have a cable internet connection. The lag is really
>> noticeable when driving my Swoop through a swampy area. Maybe this is
>> normal?
>>
>> I'd really like to get the video card set for the best
>> combination of speed and high quality, but I'm not a real "techy" type
>> (if you haven't guessed already!!!)
>>
>> Thanks for any input in advance!!!
>>
>>
>

> Every few days, the game changes my "Terrain" graphics
> settings to the lowest possible level. I can turn them back up with no
> problem, but I seem to end up with a great deal of lag.

Thats something with the shoddy programming SoE did. if i turn my terrain
all the way up (for pics) the next time i log in its back to its defaults


> How do I set the nvidia controls to best suit the game?
> Specifically, the following:
>
> Image Settings - High Performance, Performance, or Quality
> Antialiasing Settings - Application Controlled, or one of the others
> Anisotropic Filtering - Application Controlled, or one of the others

This depends on what you want.
If you want faster graphics, go for performance (id suggest it for this
game)
If you want better looking graphics, go for Quality