9700 Pro Anti Aliasing Not Working?!

[Jay487]

I'll start with specs:

AMD Barton XP 2500+ @ 1.83GHz
512 MB DDR PC3200
80GB Western Digital 7200 RPM 8 MB CACHE
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB 8X AGP
Asus A7N8X Motherboard
Antec 400WATT PS


In Counter-Strike (Half-Life Engine) AA does not seem to take effect. The only reason I can definatly spot this is because I've played it with AA on with my GF2 and it looked great. However, I have AF on 16X, that seems to work, AA on 6X, but seems to do NOTHING AT ALL.

I've tried 3.2 drivers, 3.1, I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard, I've checked to see if it looks the same with AA off (it does) and Im not sure what else to do. I have 2 friends with similar computers (same video card) and they have the same problem.

without AA Counter-Strike looks really ugly, any ideas?

 

[KH85]

dont surpose you put it on application select did you? cuz that might be doing it

 

[FearoftheNight]

Try adding -32bpp to your CS shortcut. LMK how it turns out.

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Try adding -32bpp to your CS shortcut. LMK how it turns out.

I agree, this will do it. There is no 16-bit colour, AA, OpenGL support currently. You need to use 32-bit colour to enable AA.

 

[Jay487]

ha, wow, this forum is great

thanks a lot for the help guys, taht seems to fix it!

 

[MattStone]

Sorry to bump up this old thread, but I need to know how to add the "-32bpp" tag in gamespy arcade. I thought you just did it on the command line option, but that doesn't seem to work.

any tips?

 

[lung]

Right click on the shortcut in your start menu and go to Properties. Then add the -32bpp to the end of the path in the Target box in the Shortcut tab.

 

[MattStone]

I'm talking about changing the shortcut within Gamespy Arcade. I know how to change the shortcut to counterstrike...but I use GS Arcade to find games, and for some reason when I change the command line option, it doesn't stick. I can get it to work with Gamespy 3D, but I prefer Arcade.

 

[eno]

Wow, I just got my 9700pro last week and I read this post long ago. I searched for it and on the 5th page found it, perfect, I was playing CS and thought that the ATi detail(AA) looked like crud. Well you fixed it for me too. Thanks.