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9700 Pro Users Only - What are Your Common AA/AF Settings?

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Sammy5000

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Hey All...

I have a Sapphire Atlantis 9700 Pro running at stock right now (324/310), with 4xAA, 4xAF. At the risk of negatively impacting my speed, I have not messed around with trying to increase them.

What settings do you run your games on?
 
My 9800np is set on 4x AA and 16x AF. Runs UT2k3 at a avg of 60-120 FPS with high quality settings @ 1024 x 768 res. Texture detail is set to high. So I don't think you need to worry by cranking up the goodies.
 
I haven't tried the "quality" AF, but at "performance" AF there is no real difference in speed performance between 4X and 16X. You might as well crank the AF up to 16X to get the maximum IQ benefit, since you are taking a similar performance hit (i.e. a couple of percent).

Obviously a different story for AA ... you pay as you go there. But I find 4X to be fine.
 

I find I can run up to 4xAA and 8xAF (quality) with no performance hit at all, so I typically leave things there.
 
Start out with 16x Performance AF, then up the AA from there (4x appears to be optimal, with 6x offering little increased IQ but a significant performance drop)
 
Yes, the difference in framerate may be large (depending on the game), but the difference in IQ will probably be small. Try it and see. It's basically the difference between bilinear and trilinear filtering.
 
4xAA 16xAF, 9500np>9700 hack running 330core 295mem on a 2.2gig (11x200MHz 1700+) Play lots of BF1942, not a single slowdown.
 
i run 6x-16x-all set to quality and either 1024x768 or 1280x1024

i play all my games at these settings

most i never see a slowdown.

sierra home world i can build over 400 ships before i see any slow down and it gets unbearable with around 800 ships (mine) on screen)😛

but it may be that i need more ram as i am only running 512 mb😉

mike
 
I have a Sapphire 9700pro 128mb.
I usually run all games at 4xFSAA/8xAF. But if its a complex game (visually), i drop the FSAA and keep the AF on.
Regs, i belive that thread title was "9700pro user only", but i`ll let you off. The 9800np shouldnt be included really, cos its slower than a 9700pro.
 
OK This is what I do, custom settings 4xaa and 16af -all sliders set to performance- 1280x1024 . UT2K3 highest settings for an almost consistant 41 fps on a AIW9700
 
Originally posted by: Pete
Originally posted by: BoomAM
The 9800np shouldnt be included really, cos its slower than a 9700pro.
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Actually, they're basically even.
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Ive seen different benchmarks to those, where the 9700pro is about 5fps. The ones you`ve shown, shows a a 1fps 9700pro advantage, which could make or break the difference between smoothness and jerkyness. Or not.

 
I run my 9700 non pro (324/317) usually 2xAA, 16x quality AF. In battlefield 1942 those are the settings I play (all details maxed) 1024x768 online and offline with good frame rates using fraps average about 50fps this is with a 2100+ @1.9ghz.

rogo
 
I'm running 9500>9700 hack.. core is at 403(!) mhz (stock cooling, does 420 without artifacts, but i want to be safe) and mem at 302 mhz (argh 3.3 ns!)

I use 4x AA and 16x perf aniso on everything at 1280 x 1024...
 
I always use 16x performance AF and 0x AA. If the game doesn't support at least 1280 x 960 then I'll use 6x AA.
 
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