bugging MindZ with my GeForce gripes

[H1CC]

Hay guys, guess what I bugged MindZ with this morning?
Sunday, October 18, 2015
11:45 - H1∼∼: allo
11:45 - H1∼∼: can you help me decide on video settings in nVidia inspector
11:45 - H1∼∼: I've got it narrowed down to two selections
11:46 - H1∼∼: one set for higher quality/appearance
11:46 - H1∼∼: and one set for better FPS
11:46 - H1∼∼: It's been my experience that the relative increase in FPS is far more than the decrease in visual quality
11:46 - H1∼∼: when I set these ten settings to their lowest values
11:47 - H1∼∼: Main
..
Ambient Occlusion Setting
High quality
Ambient Occlusion usage
Enabled
Anisotropic filtering mode
Application-controlled
Anisotropic filtering setting
16x
Antialiasing - Transparency Multisampling
Enabled
Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling
8x Supersampling
Antialiasing - Mode
Enhance the application setting
Antialiasing - Setting
32x [32x CSAA (8 color + 24 cv samples)]
Enable Maxwell sample interleaving (MFAA)
Off
Toggle FXAA on or off
On
11:47 - H1∼∼: Alternate
..
Ambient Occlusion Setting
Off
Ambient Occlusion usage
Disabled
Anisotropic filtering mode
User-defined / Off
Anisotropic filtering setting
Off (Point)
Antialiasing - Transparency Multisampling
Disabled
Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling
Off / Multisampling
Antialiasing - Mode
Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting
Application-controlled / Off
Enable Maxwell sample interleaving (MFAA)
Off
Toggle FXAA on or off
Off
11:48 - H1∼∼: but my real concern is... organizationally I like to have everything .cfg-related to have everything set to 'main' and only set alternates (for better performance etc.) as needed
11:48 - H1∼∼: so I don't know if the increase in FPS is enough to warrant setting AWAY from my 'main' set (everything enabled) to my 'alternate set' (some stuff disabled to improve FPS)
11:49 - H1∼∼: I had the same problem with my DarkPlaces config
11:49 - H1∼∼: I solved THAT one by setting the main var's first and then setting alternators to... tone stuff down... afterrwards in a separate config layered on top of it
11:49 - H1∼∼: but i can't exactly follow that approach with system/driver settings for my grapics card...
11:52 - H1∼∼: so, as I figured, I could just 'have it written down' somewhere I would remmeber where I put it and, as long as I had the settings 'set up' somewhere, in text, I could refer back to THAT and set teh graphics card driver settings to 'alternate' as needed since that'd be the better one of the two to go to for... pragmatic reasons... as even if the 'main' set is better for organizational/asthethic reasons then at least I had the 'written down' portion to make up for it...
11:53 - H1∼∼: nVidia Inspector
settings
nVidia GeForce GT745M
GeForce 355.98 driver
11:53 - H1∼∼: sorry mindz, I guess I been awfully right-brained this morning, heh...

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Ambient Occlusion hits the GPU pretty hard.

Bloom Resolution can make or break how many FPS your getting as well, inside Advanced Lighting options or something to that effect.

those are the settings imo take away the most FPS.