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surprisingly enough people have asked me to talk about the settings in the Nvidia control panel so today I'm going to be going through every setting in the Nvidia control panel and telling you guys my thoughts and what it means and what I used personally also quickly look at the GeForce experience and just tell you how I use it myself let's get on with it welcome back to Tokyo city ladies and gentlemen this is brian coming back to you guys today with a video explaining all the nvidia control settings in the panel and what they do and what you should turn on and what you should turn off so without further ado let's get on with it and just right click on the desktop there you can left-click on the Nvidia control panel bring that up as you can see here it's perfectly fitting the 1080p area that I've set out for it so you guys will be able to see this in all its 1080p glory so it does take them for some odd reason is is kind of laggy so if that you know it feels laggy on your computer don't be concerned it's lagging on my computer I'm telling you now I've got no viruses on this thing it runs perfectly fine so this is the adjust image settings with previews the first panel here and we can see it all you want to do it this is just use advanced 3d image settings right because if you're going to use applications and use particular settings in those applications and in the control panel then you just want to use this setting and let you know the settings do this the talking so basically if you want though you can put it on to full quality that's either the to but I just used custom settings on certain games so I have this use advanced three image settings so anyway that being said let's go down now to manage 3d settings and now this is probably the most important part of this whole video as I guess this is where all the chunk of the questions that I got about the Nvidia control panel come from so ambient occlusion this is essentially a very taxing setting that I've found with a lot of games I like to leave it off though if you have a beast set up you can put it on quality or performance it's up to you I find just it just taxes your frame rates way too much so I prefer to leave it off as it is an SEO tropical turing this is one that you know depends on the game but I usually like to set this to 16 times or 16 speed you know and that's actually one setting that I do like to manually change to 16 speed because pretty much all my games look better with 16 speed now fine for some reason it doesn't actually tax your graphics card to March this setting in a lot of games anti-aliasing moving down here to FX AAA this setting is just trash I hate it completely I think FX AAA horrible even at 1080p or at 1440p I just don't like it at all for some reason it just makes my games look all every game look horrible that I've tried it on I don't know why anti-aliasing gamma correction that's up to you you can actually try and turn it off if you want to it's up to you I personally just leave it on so I just leave it on you know that affects like the brightness of the actual anti-aliasing itself so I just leave it on it works I have no problems I've tried it on and off I haven't really noticed much of a difference to be honest maybe if I'm playing an RPG and I'm really getting into it I'd like to leave that off but whatever what it's worth it's not a biggie it doesn't affect your performance in any way well that I benchmarked anyway so anti-aliasing mode this one we can just leave it on application controlled because you've got your different anti-aliasing modes in games for instance some games have MS AAA some games have SMA and me personally I'd like to use both these forms of anti-aliasing though if they're not available in the game for instance world of warcraft came out i would like you know when when the warlords of draenor came out didn't have both of these as anti-aliasing modes so i just controlled in the application so it depends on the game but for what it's worth I'd leave that on application controlled next here we've got anti-aliasing transparency just leave that to off you know on to play with that CUDA cores on your GPU yeah you always want this on alright because you want your graphics card working to its full potential DSR factors this is actually a very very interesting setting and if you're on for instance a 27 inch 1080p monitor I would actually recommend setting this to 2 I'm actually on 1440p monitors at the moment so I don't need to play around with this though I have tried it on a 1080p monitor and it does make a 1080p monitor look better in my opinion to 2 times there but it it will tax your graphics card a lot so keep that in mind just for actual desktop editing and stuff if you guys editing videos especially 1080p videos on a 1080p monitor turning this on to 2 times there that'll just help you so much with your productivity so this is why it's a really good thing I recommend it so I leave it off as I said before because I got 1440p monitors but if you're on a 1080p monitor you I want to give this a shot especially for productivity I even go to 4k if you if you dare do that but anyway next setting here maximum pre-rendered frames so leave this to one I honestly I'd leave this to one I hate input lag and I don't recommend turning this to any other setting though if you've got a really bad computer and you just want to enjoy your game somewhat you may want to set this to four there for what it's worth I always put this on one as for instance some games like Crysis 3 if I put this to four man can I fill the input lag so that's I definitely like that on one multiframe mfa this is Nvidia's new anti-aliasing technology i personally haven't used this yet i would like to get into it in bench market though the games that support it I don't know like I've actually got to look into this setting more apparently it's a better MSAA it's half as taxing though for what it's worth I don't have my MSAA turned up too high anyway I have it either to speed or for speed most the times of 1440p it's only to speed anyhow so mfa a benefits for me aren't really that big so I haven't bothered playing with it yet admittedly let's move down down now to multi display mixed GPU acceleration here so since I do have two displays I do have 1440 to 1440p monitors I like this leave this just on multi display performance mode there for what it's worth it doesn't make a difference really if you're on a single monitor and just set it to single if you're on like multiple and set it to multiple and then power management mode I'd leave this on adaptive I don't recommend putting it on maximum performance because your graphics card on idle will just chew more power so it's actually you know in games those games are going to be constantly processing frames it's not a problem it's your GP is not going to ramp down magically in games unless the game is really crap so I just leave this on adaptive and get some power savings there especially like now I'm recording on the desktop my graphics card isn't working so hard so that's helping save some power so I'd recommend leaving this on adaptive unless you've got some weird problems going on and even if you do have weird problems you might want to just reinstall your OS and fix those problems up so shada case leave this don't touch adding texture filtering you can leave this as well these settings I generally don't play with them but if you want to I leave that on clamp though if you want to you can change these settings except for I think it is tray linear optimization yeah that's one that I actually do leave on it can help with certain games but for whatever it's worth these settings you shouldn't really play it sorry I shouldn't really play around with these settings here you know they can mess up your games a little bit though if what it's worth just leave them how they are threaded optimization leave that on auto as well triple buffering leave that off vertical sync use the 3d application though this is a very interesting setting because if you're on games like Skyrim then I would turn this off and usually I do turn this off actually do I don't know why I actually recently actually that's why I recently updated my drivers and so it had vsync on so that's that I'll turn that off then so once you've done that you can press apply also virtually virtual reality pre-rendered frames that's just the setting for VR headsets it has no bearing for your 2d experience so don't worry about that I just leave that for one for what it's worth anyway so let's move it on now to configure surround so this is Nvidia surround you can see here I'm using both my DVI ports it's just giving you all your settings there you've also got your physics settings there if you want to use a GPU to process physics or your CPU I just leave it on auto does a fine job and then you can span displays with surround so you've got some interesting settings there I like it how it tells you all the information you need to know there moving on now to change resolution another very interesting setting here so you can see here I've got a custom refresh rate here 63 Hertz more hurts the better that's generally how it is in the PC gaming world so my monitors I one of them can go to this one here can actually go to 67 but I run them both at 63 Hertz for what it's worth since this one's my main gaming one with better blacks I have that 263 Hertz as well so if you want to make a custom resolution to overclock your monitor but keep in mind you can only overclock monitors that have no built-in scaler in other words the gray the graphics processor is directly connecting to the monitor and pushing out the frames it's not going through any scalar there so if you've got a graph sky like mine see friends I mean so if you've got a monitor like mine a Korean monitor then you can just go to customize here and then you can set up a custom resolution there so you can see here I've actually set up and you can overclock your monitor so 63 Hertz and then you go to CVT reduced blank I find that can help you get a few more frames out of your monitor depending on few more cycles at your monitor depending on what monitor it is so CBG reduce blank and then you can go as high as you can on the particular monitor as I said before my can only go to 63 Hertz so then I set both of them to 63 Hertz so it's really cool you can overclock your monitors there if you guys want me to do an overclocking tutorial for monitors I can do that but I pretty much explain just explain the gist of it there so it's very easy to do next setting here is a just desktop color and color settings this is if you want to yeah make your desktop look crazy I mean I generally I mean you can actually do some creative things to it for instance make your screen um actually this is not the monitor that see I got to set this model this is the mono recording off so if I do that I can make it grey I can over saturate everything which just looks stupid but I just leave that on default there you can be creative with that same with the hue settings there but yeah this for some reason these settings just don't work like if I go using video settings here and I change this it just reverts back so you know that's that's pretty interesting I think it's because I got flux on so that's probably why but other applications control color settings so I think that's just explains how flux works I mean you can technically have flux from this panel if you don't want to use a program but anyway that being said let's move down now to rotate display here so now we've got here choose your landscape orientations here if you want to have portrait if you want have landscape flipped I've never used flip before that you know portraits definitely a good setting there if you want to have your monitors vertically so you can do that on both monitors you got a lot to choose from here now view HD CP this is basically high digital content protection some you see if you get rent a DVD sometimes it requires a monitor to be compatible with that now both my graphics card and my monitor are compatible so this will just tell you the status of both these monitors and if they can support this mode which both of them do moving down now to set up digital audio and then let's try and didn't they didn't think I changed anything there was it asked me to change stuff but anyway set up digital audio there well the colors just went crazy what you guys are seeing some live stuff here flux just flux just had it there we go what was that on 18 I don't know anyway that's weird I'm going to apply that and leave that as it is so that's weird it was really weird anyway let's keep moving on so set up digital audio basically this is the if you're running a DisplayPort or if you're running HDMI cable you can run audio over that cable to add a camp or whatever this is where you can set it up here for surround surround and whatnot I not using it at the moment but if you are you can definitely take advantage of that panel there adjust desktop size and position now this isn't actually another interesting setting especially if you're over VGA port though personally I just use no scaling on both of these though if you're running at your native resolution which I am now it doesn't make a difference and I've actually test this for input lag it does make one bit of a difference so but for as well you can just leave it at no scaling because when even when I get my monitor for a game that scales down to 1080p for my benchmarking I use no scaling so in other words it'll just shrink the whole thing so it still looks good to my eyes so I like that I like leaving it on no scaling actually because it looks better in my opinion as well instead of stretching out the 1080p picture to a 1440p picture anyway let's move on now to set up multiple displays here so this is a really good control panel this is why I do like invidious control panel because again you can just select which one's your primary and which one's your secondary and you can switch those monitors around you know you can do whatever you want so it's really cool I really like this you can set up your monitors the way you want them me personally that's how I had it before so I'm switching over to my different monitors like that this is my primary even oughts number two this is number one here which has almost soft wearing stuff on it so and I play games on number two which is my primary so that's how I have that set up you can definitely set up multiple displays very easy with this control panel anyway that being said let's move on now to the next setting here so I don't know again I'm just going to say no because it'll set up the way I liked it before but a video just video color settings so this is again if you're using like VLC media player or something like that you know it can have options there to code from the graphics card and so you can use in video settings here you can just use the video player settings but for what it's worth my monitors are already calibrated so I don't need to play with these settings if you're on saying for instance a really for instance a dying CRT and you want watch movies then you can just smash the brightness you know why you're watching movies and you'll be able to see those movies perfectly reasonably okay still so same with this you know just your other settings here so yeah there's nothing I don't really touch these settings again because movies already look gorgeous on my video player on them on my monitors so that's it for the actual Nvidia control panel now we'll actually hop across now to the NVIDIA GeForce experience so again you can see here it's a little bit laggy this thing but we'll open up the GeForce experience so let's move on now to the GeForce experience and oddly enough I had to cut my Camtasia to do desktop recording software because I had to turn off shadow play there's some weird problem where I actually couldn't record this panel here with shadow play honors it conflicted with my Camtasia Studio 8 recording software so anyway now it's that that's turned off I can record properly and for some odd reason when I record in microphone audio into shadow play it just comes out really bad so I have to use my Camtasia Studio 8 to record it Sony for games what we've got here with GeForce experience is what you can have this panel do is scan your games and then recommend settings for you graphics settings so this is great if you've got low npc mid and PC or even high-end PC though personally I do like to tweak the games for how I visually experience in them and so it does usually differ from what these settings recommend I have tried this in the past and I do like to change certain things around to give me a better experience generally pretty much every game so though it is useful for you and it does actually do a pretty good job of recommending settings so that's something you might want to check out if you are a beginner on the PC but then I'm moving on now to drivers here we have a check for updates which you can just check for updates manually I like to do that once a month or when a game has been released as you can see here my driver is up to date to the latest driver I generally haven't had any problems with Nvidia drivers ever since I got my GTX 670 though I hear that some people do have drivers so driver problems and they have to revert back to older drivers so you can do that by downloading drivers from their website anyway onto my rig here so there's my alias for my computer stationary e it was an ad name that I've had ever since I started PC gaming so that's something you probably didn't know about me but anyway GPU gtx 970 overclocked to 1600 megahertz we got the CPU overclock to 4.2 gigahertz so oddly enough it doesn't display overclocks probably here I guess it's just pulling that from system information and putting a black background on it same with the custom resolution which is not showing there 16 gigabytes of ddr4 as well and the drive version and windows 8.1 pro so you've got some more settings down here as well like a control panel down here which is kind of up here anyway moving on now to shield if you've got one of those devices the glorious shield I don't have one I don't need one then you can use play around with the settings here moving on now to preferences you've got shadow play here it's currently it's turned off current so currently it's turned off for me and I usually have it turned on and I usually have it I will go over to game sorry see usually have it hot keyed to f8 so we'll quickly go down to shadow play here and go over the settings I use I allow desktop capture usually I usually turn camera off in this and so it's usually I can't actually turn it on because I'm recording at the moment unfortunately with a different program though here's your games you can do the same as you did here you can scan for them and change the preferences here as I've turned this off as I said before I don't use this panel and just in general here I've got English United Kingdom and automatically download drivers all that stuff's checked off as I don't like anything running in the background it's how it's always been since I started using a PC in general so a game stream this is another setting here if you've got a game stream to flash so that about wraps it up for the nvidia geforce experience let's quickly move on now to a conclusion for you guys sony that's about it for today guys i hope you enjoyed this video if you did then please drop a big fat like on that like button and also if you have any questions or comments about the settings discuss the day as well then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and i'll get back to you as soon as i can and also don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already for the latest tech juicy news 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