Gigabyte GV-R9500 Manual - Page 29

English textures of the same image. Moving the slider to the right selects a higher quality base mipmap, delivering the highest quality application experience. Moving the slider to the left selects a lower quality mipmap, delivering the highest application performance. „ Wait for Vertical Sync This will lower the frame rate of full screen games but reduce the image tearing that can occur with the higher frame rate. Selecting Application Preference allows the application to decide whether or not it should display its frames at the refresh rate of the monitor. Selecting Always Off allows the application to run at its highest possible frame rate, regardless of the monitor's refresh rate which is typically less than the frame rate at which the application will run. „ TRUFORM makes the curved surfaces of 3D objects look smoother and more lifelike. „ Compatibility Settings button This button allows you to access advanced settings that can solve compatibility issues for a few specific Direct 3D applications. z Support DTX texture formats allows applications to use this kind of texture format. There are a few applications that can only support a limited number of texture formats. By selecting Disabled, the driver will not support DTX texture formats, thus reducing the number of texture formats supported. z Alternate pixel center This may eliminate problems with some Direct 3D games which display vertical and horizontal lines around textures, or text that appears incorrect. However, this setting should only be used if you are experiencing the symptoms mentioned, as it maycause problems with other games. z Defaults button allows you to reset the Direct 3D Compatibility Settings to default values. „ Defaults button This button allows you to reset the Direct 3D Settings to default values. - 27 - Software Installation