Optimizing 3D Rendering Performance

To achieve optimal 3D rendering performance in Dragonfly when using an NVIDIA graphic adapter — either a GTX, RTX or Quadro — a number of 3D settings are highly recommended.

These settings are available in the NVIDIA control panel, as shown below.

Manage 3D Settings

NVIDIA Control Panel

Go to 3D Settings > Manage 3D settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel and then make sure that the items listed below are configured as indicated. Critical settings are indicated in bold text.

3D settings
Feature   Setting
Image Scaling Off
Ambient Occlusion Off
Anisotropic filtering Off
Antialiasing - FXAA Off
Antialiasing - Gamma correction Off
Antialiasing - Mode Off
Antialiasing - Setting None
Antialiasing - Transparency Off
Background Application Max Frame Rate Off
CUDA - GPUs All
DSR - Factors Off
DSR - Smoothness Off
Low Latency Mode Off
Max Frame Rate Off
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) Off
OpenGL GDI compatibility Auto
OpenGL rendering GPU Your NVIDIA GPU (for example, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090) or your preferred NVIDIA GPU if you have multiple ones.
Power management mode Prefer maximum performance
Shader Cache Size Driver default
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias Clamp
Texture filtering - Quality High performance
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization On
Threaded optimization Auto
Triple buffering Off
Vertical sync Off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames 1
Virtual Reality - Variable Rate Super Sampling Off
Vulkan/OpenGL present method Auto