NVidia 2D desktop tweaks

10th August 2005, 11:48

Hi,

do you guys know a tool to get a better result on my Geforce 6600 when browsing the internet?

Anti aliasing etc seems to work for 3D applications, can't it work
for 2D applications too?

On my other computer I have an ATI Radeon 9700 and it's so much better dealing with 2D images. With the Nvidia card I see a lot of ugly artifacts in almost every jpeg that I don't see with the ATI card. Why is that?

jmke · 10th August 2005, 12:39

uhm, 2D is identical on ATI and nVdia AFAIK

are you running Windows XP? do you have a TFT? [g]enable+cleartype[/g] !

11th August 2005, 11:12

The fonts are great, it are the images - and yeah it's on a TFT screen, I'm going to try to hook up a CRT monitor and check if that's what causing the big difference...

jmke · 11th August 2005, 11:30

if you're seeing artifacts in a JPG image; but not on your desktop, in Word, Excel.. etc it's probably a software issue, rather than a hardware problem.

the 2D quality of recent ATI/NVIDIA cards is top notch and equal to Matrox (known for excellent 2D since the beginning of time)
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/vid...0q/index.shtml

8th September 2005, 14:15

K its the flat screen that sucks.
I hooked up another CRT monitor to the DVI output and now I clearly see that flat screens are stupid and i'm never gonna buy one myself

9th September 2005, 12:11

And another not so related question:
with the 2 monitors I now have, is it possible to play a game (with direct3D/opengl) on monitor 1 and have something like mIRC on montior 2?
Now, when I click mIRC the game on monitor 1 minimizes

10th August 2005, 11:48	#1
prepaq Posts: n/a	NVidia 2D desktop tweaks Hi, do you guys know a tool to get a better result on my Geforce 6600 when browsing the internet? Anti aliasing etc seems to work for 3D applications, can't it work for 2D applications too? On my other computer I have an ATI Radeon 9700 and it's so much better dealing with 2D images. With the Nvidia card I see a lot of ugly artifacts in almost every jpeg that I don't see with the ATI card. Why is that?

10th August 2005, 12:39	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	uhm, 2D is identical on ATI and nVdia AFAIK are you running Windows XP? do you have a TFT? [g]enable+cleartype[/g] ! __________________

11th August 2005, 11:30	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	if you're seeing artifacts in a JPG image; but not on your desktop, in Word, Excel.. etc it's probably a software issue, rather than a hardware problem. the 2D quality of recent ATI/NVIDIA cards is top notch and equal to Matrox (known for excellent 2D since the beginning of time) http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/vid...0q/index.shtml __________________

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11th August 2005, 11:12	#3
prepaq Posts: n/a	The fonts are great, it are the images - and yeah it's on a TFT screen, I'm going to try to hook up a CRT monitor and check if that's what causing the big difference...

8th September 2005, 14:15	#5
prepaq Posts: n/a	K its the flat screen that sucks. I hooked up another CRT monitor to the DVI output and now I clearly see that flat screens are stupid and i'm never gonna buy one myself

9th September 2005, 12:11	#6
prepaq Posts: n/a	And another not so related question: with the 2 monitors I now have, is it possible to play a game (with direct3D/opengl) on monitor 1 and have something like mIRC on montior 2? Now, when I click mIRC the game on monitor 1 minimizes