gregs4163 wrote:How do you turn on Triple Buffering in X3? I thought it was a D3D game and triple buffering was for OpenGL games? I use nHancer and triple buffering is noted for OpenGL only. I would love this because I always use Vsync.
There is no setting since X3 default's are vsync on and will than use tipple buffering. Just make sure u don't override the vsync setting via driver panel.
Like noted what happens is that u have 3 framebuffers, which means one is shown on screen one is rendered to and one holds the "next" best full image. If the actual rendered frame is completed before the second already finished frame can be show via monitor it can be swapped, which means u don't need to depend/wait for the the monitor to release the show buffer.
Since nowdays we have lot's of gpu memory the extra framebuffer will never harm the memory this much. Vsync + tripple buffering should be default for all games now days anyway.
As note for the "frames to render ahead" feature, this means that the driver can buffer up to 3 frames, which helps multithreaded code and also some internal optimizations. In some very rare cases lowering to 1-2 frames or raising to 4-5 "may" improve performance. But in general this can be left on default all the time.
, do you have any idea why the X3 engine seems to have so much poorer minimum framerates on modern Nvidia hardware? I think this might be a major contributing factor to threads like this:
