Can a Geforce2 GTS do 8x FSAA?

[Toxin]

i like to read up on it if it does

 

[jpprod]

No, but it can do 9-sample and 16-sample FSAA, albeit only in Direct3D and in low resolutions.

 

[Toxin]

hmm.. so the highest FSAA is 4x i believe then..

correct?

 

[Deeko]

jpprod, what? I was rather sure its max was 2x2, somewhat equivilant to 4x on the Voodoo5....are you serious or are you just makin that up for kicks?

 

[lsd]

<< jpprod, what? I was rather sure its max was 2x2 >>


Where did you see that?.....
Anyway.. 4x4 nvda fsaa

 

[Deeko]

2x2, 4x4, same thing Anyway, that's still equivilant to 4x on V5(but not as good), right? That's the impression I was under.

 

[GD695372]

What would you ever want that much anti-aliasing for? That's insane with the current gen of vid cards. You'd never hit playable resolutions or framerates at that level of fsaa(well atleast not in any games that I'd play anyway).

 

[Noriaki]

2x2 and 4x4 aren't the same thing....

2x2 is 4 sample
4x4 is 16 sample

 

[Deeko]

Hence the I was wrong alright But what is 4x4 equivilant to, Voodoo-wise? Last I checked the highest was 4x...but that was awhile ago....maybe they changed it in the drivers and i just missed it?

 

[Noriaki]

Well 2x2 or 3x3 or 4x4 or whatever means that they use a grid of that many pixels to interpolate a single onscreen pixel.

2x2 is 4 pixels whether on a nVidia card or a Voodoo5. The difference is that the V5 uses what's called RGSS and the GF uses OGSS. RGSS is a better FSAA solution, so with both cards are 2x2 or 4x4 or NxN the V5 would look a bit better becuase it's got a better FSAA algorithim. Of course if the GF can do 4x4 and the V5 only 2x2, the GF probably looks alot better. But FSAA is so slow on current cards it's next to useless anyways.

(In some instances it's pretty cool. Like older games that can't go above 800x600 or 640x480, but for the most part I'd rather play in 1280x960 with no FSAA than 640x480 with 2x2 FSAA. I think that when they fix the memory bandwith problem FSAA will be a well used feature, but for not it's just a check mark I think)

I don't know for sure if the Voodoo5 in 4x FSAA is 4 pixels (2x2) or 4x4 pixels, I think it's 2x2 though.