Anyone here hear about this?

NuroMancer

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I can't find it now but some guy in GH was talking about how these cards have some shimmering with AA (I believe turned on). I was wondering
#1 - Is this true?
#2 - What does it look like?
#3 - Impact?
#4 - Fixed by laterest drivers?

Thanks guys
 

Malladine

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yes it's true but apparently not very noticeable. There's a thread on the subject somewhere in ATSF
 

nitromullet

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1) Yes, it is true.
2) it looks like, well, "shimmering"... Basically, when your character is in motion over textured terrain, you will see the terrain shimmer in the distance in front of you. it looks kind of like a mirage. It only happens when you are in motion, so screenshots won't show you what it looks like, you have to have video.
3) I'm not sure what you mean by impact... Some textures shimmer in some applications, that sounds like enough of an impact to me.
4) Not the latest dirvers. Apparently NV is working on the issue though, so we'll see. One of the issues that makes this diffcult to fix is the fact that apparenlty some of the the default setings override the application specific settings in the driver (but, I'm not sure which ones). So, if you are trying to turn off driver optimizations it is tough to know whether the change you made in the driver was actually made but didn't have an affect, or if the change you made was simply overridden. by the default settings...

yes it's true but apparently not very noticeable. There's a thread on the subject somewhere in ATSF

It is actually fairly noticable in some apps, in others not. Someone on nvnews posted that enabling tr SSAA helps, and it actually does. Apparently, I don't understand enough, since I find it odd that enabling transparent super sampling anti-aliasing can help with the image quailty of the ansiostrophic filtering...
 

M0RPH

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Originally posted by: peleejosh
Here we go again :(

Obviously you don't like someone pointing out the faults in your video card. So just ignore it. If you see a thread about it, don't look inside. Then you'll feel better about your purchase.

People that are shopping for a new video card need to know about these things though.
 

Lonyo

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Originally posted by: M0RPH
Originally posted by: peleejosh
Here we go again :(

Obviously you don't like someone pointing out the faults in your video card. So just ignore it. If you see a thread about it, don't look inside. Then you'll feel better about your purchase.

People that are shopping for a new video card need to know about these things though.

Or he thinks that having a new thread on it it unnecessary, and since he appears to have a 6800GT, judging by his sig, isn't affected by the problem.
 

ArchAngel777

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Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: M0RPH
Originally posted by: peleejosh
Here we go again :(

Obviously you don't like someone pointing out the faults in your video card. So just ignore it. If you see a thread about it, don't look inside. Then you'll feel better about your purchase.

People that are shopping for a new video card need to know about these things though.

Or he thinks that having a new thread on it it unnecessary, and since he appears to have a 6800GT, judging by his sig, isn't affected by the problem.

/pwned

 

JonMooring

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Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: M0RPH
Originally posted by: peleejosh
Here we go again :(

Obviously you don't like someone pointing out the faults in your video card. So just ignore it. If you see a thread about it, don't look inside. Then you'll feel better about your purchase.

People that are shopping for a new video card need to know about these things though.

Or he thinks that having a new thread on it it unnecessary, and since he appears to have a 6800GT, judging by his sig, isn't affected by the problem.

Burn baby, buuurn
 

danklumpp

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Don't let this stop anyone from getting any card (6800 or 7800 series), they are all great and a huge improvement over the FX series.