'Forced' graphics settings?

[edgeburner]

Just curious about what you gurus have experienced when forcing graphic setting for FNV via the AMD - CCC or NVidia control panels? One helpful and regular contributor to this forum made a suggestion concerning AA setting that worked well for me (thanks, jim). Jim also mentioned a previous dicussion on this topic, but , my attempts to locate said dicussion have failed, hence, this post. :smile:

My system specs are moderate at best by todays standards....The much maligned (but I like it) AMD FX 4170 black quadcore (well, sort of), AMD Radeon HDDC-1GD5-V2 7770 GPU ,16gigs of Crucial Ballistics tactical tracer DDR3 RAM @1866MHz, a 1TB WD Caviar black spinner along with on- board sound and networking.

I am also loading the following graphic mods:
NMC small with Poco Bueno on top, WRP, the Dynavision combo, NV interiors, Electro city, EVE, buttet impact increased LOD, FNVWRLO, Improved LOD noise, Performance of the gods, along with Game Compainion to fake fullscreen from windowed mode. I am also forcing 2xeq supersamling AA in CCC and capping my FPS at 40 via NVSR......Smooth and pretty with rare CTD's *fingers crossed*

Anyway, How have you fared with forcing? All tips, tricks, to do's or not to do's, recomendations and constructive criticism are welcome.

Edited November 26, 2013 by edgeburner

[JimboUK]

Forcing the AA is the only thing I've noticed that makes much difference outside of the game, I didn't see much of a performance difference between 4xMSAA in game and forcing 4xSSAA from CCC. The game is very CPU heavy much like Skyrim, FO3, Oblivion and Morrowind.