What is this?

[^tek]

i downloaded coolbits for my geforce 6800. It unlocked this menu called "Additional Direct3d Settings." I click it and it has a box that says "Max Frames to Render Ahead." it is set at 3 by default. What is this and should the number be higher than 3? thanks guys

 

[Leonardo1]

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The Max frames to render ahead tells the video card how many frames it should render ahead of time, so its at 3 right now, so if your playing a game at 60FPS then its rendering frames that you won't see for 0.01seconds. By always rendering future frames it prevents problems with not rendering the image by the time you see it. The strong the graphics card you have the further ahead you can set it to render, if you set it to render 100 frames ahead and your running at 100FPS then its currently working on next seconds frames.