Best image quality

[4nik8]

Can you tell what would be the best plugin and the best settings to get to nicest image quality? I'm playing with gran turismo 2 and the pic is not very nice (even with fsaa 4x enabled)
I have a geforce pro@250/455

[Betamax]

Er it would be a help to know what graphics card you have

[4nik8]

I said it geforce2 pro @250/455 it's a 32Mo from leadtek

[Betamax]

Go with pete's OGL. Remember to switch on full screen smoothing and apply one of the higher filtering options.

[4nik8]

Which one is the last pete's?

[Floggy]

Should be 1.61 if I remember correctly. Anyways, can be found in the downloads section of some page... might be the one this board is related to Have a look right there and your search shall be rewarded. Shouldn't be too hard I guess.

[cyberdeth1]

The best way to get the sharpest image quality I've found, is to not use the anti-aliasing. Instead using the open GL plug-in, select the anistropic filter option. It results in much cleaner image quality and you don't take near the performance hit.

[4nik8]

I don't find where to enable anisotric filtering

[Kane]

Where is Pete?
He'll explain to you why PSX emulation can't use anistropic/trilinear filtering: Basicaly it's because of the PSX's lack of a Z-Buffer.
Texture anistropicy should have no effect in ePSXe.

[4nik8]

that why i don't see any improvment when i enable it through nvmax

[MNK]

I would rather say that you can't do it cause
aniso is suported from geforce3; (well not 100% sure)

[Kane]

GeForce 2 can do it, just very slowly in comparison to the 3+

[DrFunk]

Getting nice image quality is always hard for me.

[Mr Urt]

I'd say the best way to get better image quality would probably be getting a better graphics card. fsaa + screen smoothing is about the best u can do. go <a href=http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14399&pagenumber=3>here </a> to see some of my screenies of GT2 1024x768x32 w/ 4xFSAA and screen smoothing using Pete's OpenGL 1.61

[Xkalibur]

There doesnt seem to be much of a difference when antialiasing is turned on. Well thats from what i can see. The only thing that makes a difference is the screen smoothing option. I dont think enabling FSAA in the display propeties of your graphics card does anything. Even if it does there should be some sort of performance hit if it is doing anything, and i dont get any performance hit.

[4nik8]

The screenshots are replay scene the pic quality is always better in replay than in the game
BTW i found the smouth screen button i will now try it with fsaa4x (anisotry is supported by the gf2)

[Kane]

Originally posted by Xkalibur
There doesnt seem to be much of a difference when antialiasing is turned on. Well thats from what i can see. The only thing that makes a difference is the screen smoothing option. I dont think enabling FSAA in the display propeties of your graphics card does anything. Even if it does there should be some sort of performance hit if it is doing anything, and i dont get any performance hit.

I'll post some shots tomorrow to counter that point.

[Xkalibur]

Well i can wait to see em. Coz ill show you some pics that i have as well, but only after i see what you have to show. :P

[4nik8]

Fsaa 4x doesn't slower my system my geforce2 is powerful enough for it (at least under gt2 can't say the same under quake3)

[Xkalibur]

The geforce 4 cards have a lot more different types of FSAA settings. The highest one is FSAAx4xS which basically hammers your system to the max. From what i can see it makes no difference to any emulated PSX games. Yet it does seem to slow down in Quake 3 just a tad.