Texure Filtering - Quality (What really does it mean?)

[Oxicoi]

Is this like a form of Anisotropic Filterting or like detailing of textures? I'm confused as it doesn't give much of an explanation.

I have a GTX 970 and I'm looking at this from the NVIDIA Control Panel.

 

[MMorris666]

Texture Filtering - Quality: This setting serves to provide an overall method of controlling any texture filtering optimizations applied by the graphics driver. The main settings it alters are Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization (covered further above), and Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization (covered further below).

The available options are High Performance, Performance, Quality and High Quality, and each setting has the following impact:


High Performance: Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization is set to On, and Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization is set to On.
Performance: Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization is set to On, and Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization is set to On.
Quality: Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization is set to Off, and Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization is set to On.
High Quality: Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization is set to Off, and Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization is set to Off (it shows as being On but is ignored by the driver).


The driver may also be controlling other forms of texture filtering optimizations with these settings, but it is unclear what these are, if any.

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