Hello guys
a need for a litle bit of clartification is required please.

excuse my engliush at tis time but a certrain mister walker 18 years old is a little in the way.

anyway here goes the question.

I understabd that games can be controlled Video wise by either the games software or the videocards hardware. that ius all of the processing ismdone via the hardware setting , in my case ATI X1900 xtx or the games software via the games sliders.
the later uses the systems resources and s;lows down the perfotrmance whilke the later gives good frame rates.

is that true and if so  how does a fellow make sure that it is the hardware i.e. the video card that is doing all the work and not the cpu/operating system.

michaelmichael

thanks guys 
   

I do belive hardware takes priority over software or will it run the textures through AA twice once through HW and once through SW? Anyway if you can make everything run on hardware, you get better quality and performance.

Thats really about it, I don't know what the shader thing in gothic is but it sounds like it should be off.