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Mayu
Jul 31, 2007, 08:56 PM
What does Mipmap do?? o.o

chaos89
Jul 31, 2007, 08:57 PM
many things <_>

Weeaboolits
Jul 31, 2007, 08:58 PM
maps mips.

Sord
Jul 31, 2007, 09:00 PM
On 2007-07-14 21:30, Norvekh wrote:
Actually, Mipmapping has been around for years now. It's a way of improving performance by using bitmaps that are scaled.


In 3D computer graphics texture filtering, MIP maps (also mipmaps) are pre-calculated, optimized collections of bitmap images that accompany a main texture, intended to increase rendering speed and reduce artifacts. They are widely used in 3D computer games, flight simulators and other 3D imaging systems. The technique is known as mipmapping. The letters "MIP" in the name are an acronym of the Latin phrase multum in parvo, meaning "much in a small space". They need more space in memory although they form the basis of wavelet compression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap

There are times where mipmapping can cause graphical glitching though and it does no harm being disabled so long as your computer can handle the non-optomized images.


this was discussed not to long ago in here

Nitro Vordex
Jul 31, 2007, 09:00 PM
It's actually Bitmap >.> typos=lolz

Nitro Vordex
Jul 31, 2007, 09:02 PM
http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

Mayu
Jul 31, 2007, 09:02 PM
I tried it

At some area's It was working 100%, 100% peformance then

I enter another area - Horrible lag - 100% becomes like 5 % <.<

Sord
Jul 31, 2007, 09:11 PM
really watered down version: it deals with changing quality of textures as objects move in and out of veiw getting smaller and larger, it increases memory usage, but can lessen the work on real time rendering.

if you have a lot of memory, go for it, if not, I wouldn't bother. It's not required most of the time. Obviously if a place has a lot of complex tectures and objects, then it will use up more of your memory (which can cause slowdown) and in areas where it's less complex should go back to normal.

that's about the gist of how I see it. Not 100% confident about it myself though.



Also, try and keep questions like these in the tech support forum. I might know a lot of stuff and be willing to look up stuff for you all, but I am by no means an IT expert (yet.) I study network administration, that's not exactly videocard and computer processes. Yes, I have A+ Cert, but that has a lot more physichal aspects than loogical, and most logical aspects deal primarily with operating systems, not graphics. You'll probably find much better people in there that can help you.

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Mayu
Jul 31, 2007, 09:34 PM
Thank you http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif