If your system has a powerful graphics card, you may not be getting the most out of it. Whether your rig boasts a graphics card based on the flagship AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT or the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX (or even a GTS variant), you might be able to crank up the visuals in your games higher than you knew. But unlike console games, most PC games provide a wide variety of graphics options that let you tinker with the balance between frame rate performance and visual quality. Sometimes, though, you might want to go outside the game, to the graphics card’s options panel, and override the game’s own settings yourself.
Both Nvidia and ATI reference drivers provide control panels that allow you to tweak the settings of the graphics card globally, or within specific games. This is why we love PC gaming. There’s always something to tweak. Consoles are great, mind you, when you just want to sit down and play at 30
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