If you've got an Nvidia GPU...

[Poobah Gorg]

Gmod's graphical settings can be optimized by the GeForce Experience, assuming you've got the 397.64 version of their driver.

[Ulysses]

Originally posted by Poobah Gorg:

Gmod's graphical settings can be optimized by the GeForce Experience, assuming you've got the 397.64 version of their driver.

How do you optimize it?

[imphonic]

Sad I'm using Intel HD Graphics and my laptop doesn't support an external GPU.

[Jaquaviontavious Bonqueque XVI]

I am thinking of getting that 1070 TI on amazon i say yesterday.

[imphonic]

It's probably expensive.

[imphonic]

If mine supported an extGPU I would get a 1080. Yes, a Core i3 and a 1080. How about a Core i5 and a 1080? See, people like me don't with i7s.

[It's Chase]

That's the worst thing to do actually. You're better of figuring out you're own settings then letting GeForce do the work for you.

[Poobah Gorg]

Originally posted by SystemDC:

Originally posted by Poobah Gorg:

Gmod's graphical settings can be optimized by the GeForce Experience, assuming you've got the 397.64 version of their driver.

How do you optimize it?

You run the GeForce Experience app. It's a good idea to have it check for driver updates (if you don't have 397.64). Then you click the Home tab/button up top/left and it shows a list of games. Click Details button on the game, then click Optimize button. It's pretty easy.

If you think like It's Chase, there's still stuff on the screen that's helpful. There's some screenshots from the game, on them there's these green square outlines. Mouseover those and it will explain one of the game options that the app could optimize for you. Knowing what the various options actually do is helpful as far as configuring them yourself.

[Poobah Gorg]

Originally posted by It's Chase:

That's the worst thing to do actually. You're better of figuring out you're own settings then letting GeForce do the work for you.

Maybe, but not everyone's tech-savvy. I like to think I am, but I've also got a crappy memory and I'm not really patient enough to start dinking with sixteen or more variables to see what's going to get me the best results. Nor is likely to be easy to figure out which one of those things I set incorrectly if there's issues.

Despite Nvidia being the bigger player in the "good graphics cards" market, developers almost always go for "good enough" default settings for fear of getting lots of grousing about frame rates/choppy performance from folks who've got OTHER problems with their PC (malware, leave browser open and never clear cache, etc). If people don't like what Nvidia determined works best, they can always use the app to revert or use the game's setup to return to defaults (or just tweak it themselves).

The app doesn't just go and pick the "best settings." It picks the best-looking settings that work well on the particular Nvidia GPU you own. I've got the 6GB version of the 1060, which is somewhat rarer than the 3GB version. My thinking is that even games that default certain settins based on GPU model are probably going to decide that 1060 is a 1060. I'd hate to have paid for that VRAM only to have auto-configging games not bother making use of it.

[imphonic]

EDIT: I'm on my i5-12GB RAM rig with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460.

[Enterfector]

I don't see Gmod on my Nvidia control panel list of games for optimization. I am using the x64 branch of the game, does Nvidia not support that branch?

[RexSonic]

Originally posted by Enterfector:

I don't see Gmod on my Nvidia control panel list of games for optimization. I am using the x64 branch of the game, does Nvidia not support that branch?

You're replying to a thread from 2018

[Poobah Gorg]

Pro (not really) Tips on Nvidia App (the Control Panel is a whole other thing);

It's not a great idea to let the app configure game settings for you. Reason being that it plops some software into memory every time configured games are played.

I'm not one of those people who thinks the app gets everything wrong. Generally it makes better choices than what the games set by default.

The best way to use it is to take the settings it suggests and put them in manually yourself.

Another thing to know is that Nvidia almost never updates the suggested settings. If a game's graphics options get totally or even slightly revised a few months later, the app will not only not get updated, it will look at the game's config files and tell you that you don't have the optimal settings. Even if the ones it wants would either be ignored or automatically revised by the game.

I'm not saying never use it and it's awful, rather that it's more useful with newer games and those that don't have much in the way of graphics updates.