'Never tried messing with that.
Firstly, when doing system work, it’s always more relaxing and safe to do it after having done a full backup. Anyway.
This is how I set I Rhino on the old “Mobile Workstation.” After installing the latest nVidia drivers, and rebooting, I right click on the desktop, I choose “Nvidia Control Panel.”
There are two modes of managing the 3D settings. At some point, it might be best to put it on the expert settings, it might read different, but you get the idea. I just don’t want to change mine back. Anyway…
This is where I choose the nVidia GPU.
Just before this screenshot is where things get tricky…
You likely want to change the global graphic settings for the nVidia GPU.
You may or may not want to use the nVidia GPU for everything. So, for my laptop, I need to choose the use the nVidia GPU for everything, set up the Gpu, save my settings–and then, set it back to Integrated Graphics. Phew!!
So, I make a custom profile for Rhino, like this:
Because. I dislike the shader cache, because it writes to my SSD, I shut the off in the global profile.
I usually go through the rest of the options.
On games, I often force antialiasing; on Rhino, I don’t because I want the performance.
On games, use the best texture filtering; on Rhino, I choose performance.
On games, I use high aniosotropic filtering; on Rhino, I shut it off, you guessed it, for performance.
On games I choose Multi-Frame AA. On Rhino, it’s off.
I have always hated FXAA. Watch this heavily-touted option quietly disappear from the menu someday.
I let Rhino control the AA, because it’s Registry writes are still faster than nVidia.
Oddly, I use an “Adoptive” power profile for everything, believing that it may give decent performance, and still let the heat-soak from the GPU dissipate.
I tend to keep the Pre-Rendered frames low, as it’s a kind of GPU cheating that makes a jarring, nauseating GPU experience.
Vsync, off.
Trilinear optimization, on, as Rhino likely uses Mipmaps for its OpenGl view.
As a computer gamer, you are expected to know what all of these settings mean, so you will find guides with pictures, from them : )