Hi Burr,

> Are either of these "degradation settings" from normal,
> or are they "more powerful" settings from normal.

Well, it's been a while since I have done much OpenGL, but those seem like just pretty normal settings to me. Not really "more powerful" or "degraded" either.

I wouldn't think you would have much to worry about with having those enabled.

You might want to update your video driver to the newest one though and see if that behaves any better with all defaults.

- Michael