11-28-2011, 17:54
Ambient Occlusion
As mentioned, the 290.36 beta drivers now allow for the use of Ambient Occlusion directly through the control panel in the two most popular titles of the moment: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
If you're unfamiliar with Ambient Occlusion, it is most easily described as a way to make in-game shadowing more realistic, and therefore better. To enable the effect, open your NVIDIA Control Panel either via the desktop or the tray icon, and follow the steps below:
1.Browse to 'Manage 3D Settings,' select 'Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim' or 'Modern Warfare 3' in the drop-down. If you can't see it in the list, untick the 'Show only programs found on this computer' box and try again.
2.Set the 'Ambient Occlusion' option to Performance or Quality.
3.Click the Apply button.
And here's an example of Ambient Occlusion in action in Modern Warfare 3:
![[Image: CallOfDutyModernWarfare3-AO-On-620.png]](http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3-AO-On-620.png)
Click to view an interactive comparison.
There will be a performance impact, have no doubt, though it is impossible to predict exactly how large given the millions of PC configurations, so we suggest enabling Fraps' frame rate overlay while you play, and should the frame rate drop below thirty simply undo the Ambient Occlusion changes or use the less demanding Performance mode.
Click here to download the GeForce 290.36 beta drivers.
Radec
As mentioned, the 290.36 beta drivers now allow for the use of Ambient Occlusion directly through the control panel in the two most popular titles of the moment: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
If you're unfamiliar with Ambient Occlusion, it is most easily described as a way to make in-game shadowing more realistic, and therefore better. To enable the effect, open your NVIDIA Control Panel either via the desktop or the tray icon, and follow the steps below:
1.Browse to 'Manage 3D Settings,' select 'Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim' or 'Modern Warfare 3' in the drop-down. If you can't see it in the list, untick the 'Show only programs found on this computer' box and try again.
2.Set the 'Ambient Occlusion' option to Performance or Quality.
3.Click the Apply button.
And here's an example of Ambient Occlusion in action in Modern Warfare 3:
Click to view an interactive comparison.
There will be a performance impact, have no doubt, though it is impossible to predict exactly how large given the millions of PC configurations, so we suggest enabling Fraps' frame rate overlay while you play, and should the frame rate drop below thirty simply undo the Ambient Occlusion changes or use the less demanding Performance mode.
Click here to download the GeForce 290.36 beta drivers.
Radec
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