Increasing Framerate on the new Nvidia drivers and World of Warcraft.

[Krigoth]

If you've updated to Nvidia drivers recently, you may have noticed a decrease in framerate by quite a lot, this is caused by two things:

The 3D Vision Stereo Drivers
The new "Ambient Occlusion Effect"

First of all, we're going to go over disabling the new "Ambient Occlusion Effect" as this is the largest increase in framerate.

Disabling Ambient Occlusion

1 ) Go to your desktop, right click on your mouse and select Nvidia Control Panel


2 ) Select the Advanced View option if you haven't already.


3 ) Go to Manage 3D Settings and disable Ambient Occlusion, Now click Apply. and close down the Nvidia Control Panel.

Disabling the Nvidia 3D Vision Stereo Drivers

1 )

XP: Go to Control Panel and select Add or Remove Programs
Vista/Windows 7: Go to Control Panel and select the Uninstall a Program option(image below):


2 )
Select the Nvidia 3D Vision Stereo Drivers and click Remove or Uninstall and Change on Windows 7/Vista(can also be done by Right Clicking and selecting Uninstall and Change)

3. After uninstalling the 3D Drivers, restart your computer!

Hopefully this will sort out all of the problems to do with the new Nvidia drivers. Join me in my topic next week as I discuss configuring your World of Warcraft Graphics for the best performance without hindering quality!

[Thidan]

My framerate went up from 250 to 412 in Dalaran (Without Vsync) when updating =/

[Krigoth]

My framerate went up from 250 to 412 in Dalaran (Without Vsync) when updating =/

Yes, but this is for people who have had problems with the framerate with the new drivers. Not everybody is as lucky as you.

[kenny6]

i cant see "Ambient Occlusion Effect" setting and i have a 9800gtx+ with 190.62 drivers in windows xp i aslo cant see the uninstall for The 3D Vision Stereo Drivers

[Crysto]

i cant see "Ambient Occlusion Effect" setting and i have a 9800gtx+ with 190.62 drivers in windows xp i aslo cant see the uninstall for The 3D Vision Stereo Drivers

Same but with Vista

[Krigoth]

i cant see "Ambient Occlusion Effect" setting and i have a 9800gtx+ with 190.62 drivers in windows xp i aslo cant see the uninstall for The 3D Vision Stereo Drivers

Are you sure you're on the 190.62 drivers then? Because Ambient Occlusion has been supported since the 185 beta and it's there for me on 190.62 Windows 7 64bit with my overclocked 9600GT.

[kenny6]

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4585/66633173.jpg

[Vaqxine1]

I can't see Ambient Occlusion Effect either. Are you sure it isn't from something seperate?

[kenny6]

im going to try out a program called nhancer u can get it at http://www.nhancer.com/downloads/nHa...3_B2_Setup.exe

it allows you to create profiles for the global 3d settings and it shows the enable/disable Ambient Occlusion... too bad the servers are down and i cant test it out

[jpte]

I was really exited about this because i´ve been getting really crap framrates even though a good computer and Nvidia 8800 GTX card. Unfortunately these options you say to disable were already standard...

[Butrus]

I don't have any "Ambient Occlusion Effect" settings and there is no such a thing like "Nvidia 3D Vision Stereo Drivers" installed on my computer.

[quaninter]

thanks for the guide

[Krigoth]

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4585/66633173.jpg

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4870/23969906.png


Perhaps it's only an option for Windows Vista and Windows 7?

[Spectroom]

didnt help too much here, but i like the guide, well explained..+rep