Anti-aliasing sux!

[Executor]

I have a G3 Ti 500 and just tried AA (2x and quincux) with 8x anio. I used Guru3d's RivaTuner. I loaded up AvP2 and the first thing I noticed was that the text looks like crap. I joined a MP game, expecting to see the same image quality as before but with less jaggies. But what do I get? I see some crappy image quality. The sharpness of the textures is gone and lighting effects seem less spectacular. Jaggies are almost all gone but at what price? To tell the truth I don't notice jaggies when I'm playing, so AA makes almost no sense; it is a novelty feature. It's come a ways since it introduction, I'll admit, but why does it look like sh*!? Are there any new AA methods in development that would remove jaggies and keep image qaulity? Btw for all the ATi fans, from all the AA comparisons I've read AA on the Radeon 8500 is equally bad (at comparitive settings). Now, please tell me I've missed some magic driver setting that will shove these complaints right in my face. Please.

 

[damocles]

I hate to play most games without AA. It will generally sharpen things up a bit without any negative effect on the image (perhaps very slight dithering on some lines). It sounds like something is wrong with your settings. With a GF3 can you not play at 4x? IMO it looks much better

 

[Executor]

Everything looks kinda 'blurry"; not as sharp as before using AA eventhough I am using anio

 

[Rectalfier]

Same here. I turned it on, and watched the Chameleon demo from Nvidia. There were very few jaggies, but the textures looked like garbage. Without AA the textures looked crisp, almost plastic, but with AA on, the textures looked blurry and lost their reflective look.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

WTF is nVidia going to starting implementing some of the excellent 3dfx technology that they bought for cheap ? Their AA was the best.

 

[sandorski]

FSAA is great, if you have a Voodoo5 5500. Anyway, are you sure you have done all the tweaking possible? I know that the Voodoo5 has settings that clear up fuzziness, perhaps the GeForce 3 has such a setting?

 

[Pacinamac23]

Agreed, I hate AA too. I would rather pump up the detail and res.

 

[ElFenix]

nvidia'a AA still doesn't fix some of the things that 3dfx's did, like pixelpopping and shimmering. damn i hate shimmering. looks like sh!t when i'm running around in camelot. might as well just up the res because thats all nvidia really does. but then of course i can't read the damn text. so its off to crappy, if efficient, AA land.