Provides access to display performance-related options.
These settings control hardware acceleration, effects available through your system's graphics card, and software performance settings.
Some advanced graphic performance settings are only accessible if you enter -GRAPHICSCONFIG on the command line.
List of Options
The following options are displayed.
Hardware Setup
Displays the graphics hardware information such as the video card, driver version, and the current virtual device.
Effects Settings
Sets the options for hardware acceleration.
- Hardware Acceleration
- Enables the use of hardware acceleration and provides control to all effects settings available for the current driver. When off, all effects settings are disabled.
- Advanced Material Effects
- Controls the status of the advanced materials effect on-screen.
- Full Shadow Display
- Enables shadows to be displayed in the viewport.
- Per-Pixel Lighting (Phong)
- Enables the computation of colors for individual pixels. With this option turned on, the 3D objects and lighting effects appear smoother in the viewport.
- Smooth Line Display
- Controls the status of the full screen anti-aliasing effect. This option removes the jagged effect on the display of diagonal lines and curved edges.
- Uncompressed Textures
- Increases the amount of video memory to display better quality textures in drawings that contain materials with images or have attached images. Note: It is recommended that you do not use any type of remote access application, such as NetMeeting, Remote Desktop, or any other windows emulating software in conjunction with hardware acceleration. Most remote access applications do not support hardware acceleration, and as a result, can cause general display failure and instability. Prior to using a remote access application with an AutoCAD-based products, check with the software vendor to see if it supports hardware acceleration and if not, disable hardware acceleration prior to starting the remote access software or use the /NOHARDWARE command line switch to start an AutoCAD-based product in Software mode.
Restore Defaults
Resets the values to the defaults based on the Graphics Performance’s evaluation of the graphics card.
Tuner Log
Displays the tuner log which reads your system and decides whether to use software or hardware implementation for features that support both. Features that work with your system are turned on, and features that might not work with your system are turned off. A log file displays the results, including information about your graphics card.