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Cubey Terra
Aircraft Builder
Join date: 6 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,725
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05-18-2004 12:27
From: someone Originally posted by eltee Statosky
as to yer blurry textures cubey that could very well be the ram setting in SL, or your mipmap setting in the ati drivers may be set for performance over quality...
in *GENERAL* cubey unless yer usin aniso filtering on the textures... their quality will degrade 'super' proportionally to the angle you view them at. My card is a Radeon 9700 128MB. The RAM is set to 32MB in SL, b/c that what people recommended. I should clarify... images and textures are blurry when viewed straight-on. When I change the camera angle to something oblique, it de-blurs temporarily. I'm not using anisotropic filtering. It's pretty annoying when someone shows me a photo and I can't really see it.
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
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05-18-2004 12:50
Cubey, up your ram setting in SL to at least 64 if not 128. That will improve picture clarity immensly. Set it to the highest that is both less than or equal to the video ram you have and is stable for you.
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eltee Statosky
Luskie
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,258
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05-18-2004 13:07
From: someone Originally posted by Cubey Terra
My card is a Radeon 9700 128MB. The RAM is set to 32MB in SL, b/c that what people recommended.
I should clarify... images and textures are blurry when viewed straight-on. When I change the camera angle to something oblique, it de-blurs temporarily.
I'm not using anisotropic filtering.
It's pretty annoying when someone shows me a photo and I can't really see it. its time to set the texture setting back to 128 cubey ^.^ (you might wanna delete the SL cache too) the 32 thing yah it only lets you use like.. 256x256 textures MAX i think
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BlackAdder York
Charter Member
Join date: 22 May 2003
Posts: 283
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05-18-2004 13:10
Anisotropic Filtering significantly sharpens the appearance of 'complex' textures which you can already see properly. I highly recommend it for ATI; causes no problems that I know of, and virtually no performance hit. But it will not help clear up those fuzzies at all.
In addition to what Kelly suggested, you might also try increasing cache size to 1000.
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