NVIDIA 5700 User Manual - Page 24

Software Settings Display Properties- Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) Performance and Quality Settings Direct3D Settings Direct3D Settings Allows you to adjust the performance and compatibility options and mipmapping for your Direct3D games. Performance & Compatibility Options This field offers options that change the performance and the compatibility of your Direct3D games. Mipmap detail level A lower bias provides better image quality; a higher bias increases performances of the applications. You can choose from five preset bias values. PCI Texture Memory Size Allows you to specify the maximum size of PCI texture heap. Increasing this value on PCI systems with sufficient memory may greatly improve the performance of some Direct3D applications. For performance reasons, this utility does not allow you to set more than half the available system memory as reported by Windows. Custom Direct3D settings Allows you to save the current settings as a custom "tweak". Saved settings will be added to the adjacent list. Once you have found the optimal settings for a particular Direct3D before starting the program and eliminates the need to set each option individually. The PCI Texture Memory Size is unavailable for systems using a AGP bus. 22 34