Gigabyte GV-R98P256D User Manual page 26

The base mipmap is the highest quality texture, and all subsequent mipmaps are smaller sized
textures of the same image. Moving the slider to the right selects a higher quality base mipmap,
delivering the highest quality application experience. Moving the slider to the left selects a lower
quality mipmap, delivering the highest application performance.
Wait for Vertical Sync
This will lower the frame rate of full screen games but reduce the image tearing that can occur
with the higher frame rate. Selecting Application Preference allows the application to decide
whether or not it should display its frames at the refresh rate of the monitor. Selecting Always
Off allows the application to run at its highest possible frame rate, regardless of the monitor's
refresh rate which is typically less than the frame rate at which the application will run.
Compatibility Settings button
This button allows you to access advanced settings that can solve compatibility issues for a few
specific Direct 3D applications.
this setting should only be used if you are experiencing the symptoms mentioned, as it may
cause problems with other games.
Defaults button allows you to reset the Direct 3D Compatibility Settings to default values.
Defaults button
This button allows you to reset the Direct 3D Settings to default values.
GV-R98P256D Graphics Accelerator
Support DTX texture formats allows applications to use
this kind of texture format. There are a few applications that
can only support a limited number of texture formats. By se-
lecting Disabled, the driver will not support DTX texture
formats, thus reducing the number of texture formats
supported.
Alternate pixel center This may eliminate problems with
some Direct 3D games which display vertical and horizontal
lines around textures, or text that appears incorrect. However,
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