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Game Engine Settings
In Quake 3 Arena, players have the luxury of being able to choose from four pre-set video detail levels (fastest, fast, normal and high-quality). This enables them to choose a video quality/performance level quickly. Other game engines aren’t as easy to set up. In my review, I have used the same level name as the Quake settings to denote a particular setting. Fastest would of course be the quickest setting I could use (usually everything is turned off). High quality is with everything turned on. Normal will be a compromise between the two. Normal will usually be with some of the eye-candy and 16-bit colour, but anything likely to make a large difference (like bump-mapping) won’t be enabled.
With all this in mind, here are the settings I used…
Quake 3 Arena
As indicated, plus sound is disabled.
- Fastest resolution was set to 640 x 480
- Normal resolution was set to 800 x 600
- High Quality resolution was set to 1024 x 768
Expendable
| Setting | Fastest | Normal | High Quality |
| Colour Depth | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| Use Hardware Texture Compression | No | Yes | Yes |
| Use Low Resolution Movies | Yes | No | No |
| Use Vertical Synch | No | No | No |
| Use Triple Buffering | No | Yes | Yes |
| Use Hardware Anti-aliasing | No | No | No |
| Use Stencil Buffering If Available | No | Yes | Yes |
Other Settings | | | |
| Gore | No | Yes | Yes |
| Trilinear Filtering | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lensflare Effects | No | Yes | Yes |
| Corona Effects | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shadows | Disk Style | Disk Style | Projected |
| Frame Locking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video Texturing | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bump Mapping * | No | No | No |
| Detail Level | Low | Medium | High |
| Sound | Off | Off | Off |
* Expendable uses Environment mapped bump maps (EMBM). The GeForce2 Pro does not support EMBM.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
| Setting | Fastest | High Quality |
| Colour Depth | 16 | 32 |
| Model Detail | Low | High |
| Enhanced Wave Effects | Off | On |
| Enhanced Water Effects | Off | On |
| Shadow Detail | Low | High |
| Texture Quality | Low | High |
| Sun Flare Effect | Off | On |
| Object Bumpmapping | Off | On |
| Landscape Bumpmapping | Off | On |
| Environment mapping | Off | On |
| View Depth | Left most setting (least) | Right most setting (most) |
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing
For “fastest” tests, use Generic 3D Adapter settings, 16-bit colour depth and Triple Buffering: On. All else Off (unchecked)
For “high-quality” settings, use GeForce Adapter settings, 32-bit colour depth, Anisotropic filtering: On and 24-bit textures: On
MDK2
| Setting | Fastest | Normal | High Quality |
| Colour Depth | 16-bit | 16-bit | 32-bit |
| MipMapping | Off | On | On |
| Filtering | None | Bi-linear | Tri-Linear |
| Texture Quality | 1 (left most) | 3 | 4 (right most) |
| Use Hardware T&L | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Use Hardware Anti-aliasing | No | No | No |
| Use 3d Sound | No | No | No |
Evolva
Fastest Settings: 640 x 480 x 16-bit colour
HQ Settings: 1024 x 768 x 32-bit colour
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