Do you use FSAA and AF, when gaming??

[caz67]

Hi All.

What resolution, do you play your games at??

Also do you enable FSAA and AF during ??

I play mine, at 1280X1024 with 8xAF and 8x FSAA.

Has anyone played UT2K4 , its not available in my town yet??

 

[Sunner]

AF sometimes.
I never use AA unless Im playing a game where I can't up the resolution, such as the FreeSpace games, they're locked at 640x480 for FS1 and a max of 1024x768 for FS2, so I use AA there.

Unless you have a small monitor, say 17" or smaller, I really don't understand what all the fuss is about, to me AA is nearly useless except in cases like the ones I described.

 

[Mem]

I never use AA,prefer 16x AF performance@1280x1024 .

Has anyone played UT2K4 , its not available in my town yet??

Played the demo at the above setting ,ok for me .

 

[Jadow]

don't do it because my old 8500 pro can't handle FSAA on current games. Still a good card, just gotta leave FSAA off.

 

[Alptraum]

I usually play with 6x and 16x at 1280x1024 (thats the native resolution of my LCD, so I always play at that res if the game supports it). In some games I don't notice much if any difference (like a lot of FPS ones, I am probably too busy trying not to get shot to notice, heh) and on some games the difference is HUGE. IL2 for instance shows a huge difference with AA. The wings of planes look much much better among other things.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

what i want is more games that make it easier to implement resolution changes and FSAA/AF changes.

for example, the far cry demo. i hate messing around with the settings cuz yer forced to exit and restart the game in order for the changes to take.

i'd like to be able to simply escape to the main menu, select options, change what i wanna change, and return to the game to see the difference and notice the FPS hit.

and with so many games bugging out on AA/AF recently, i dont dare set it in my display settings full time. i'd rather keep it on application and then have the application have the ability to easily change it without much fuss.

 

[NeoV]

I use 2X AA, and at least 8X AF...I'm on a 9800 AIW

1280 X1024 rez

 

[Todd33]

1024x768 2XAA on my Ti4400.

 

[Schadenfroh]

1024X768, no AF or AA, just turn details up all the way, 4200

 

[BFG10K]

I always use 16x performance AF.
I run at the highest resolution possible, usually 1792 x 1344 or 1600 x 1200.
I only use AA in older games that have a resolution limit of 1600 x 1200 or lower.

 

[sandorski]

Depends on the game. I use Radlinker so setting up individual settings for individual games is seamless.

 

[Atlantean]

Usually playing games at 1280x1024 or 1280x960. I use aa pretty much all the time... why? because it smoothes out the rough edges and looks better. Oh and ut2k4 looks awesome, plays awesome, and is awesome. The best game of the year so far.

 

[caz67]

thanks all.

Well i have just installed the latest Nvidia forceware 56.64.

I really like the preset application profiles, it makes it much easier.

 

[Gagabiji]

Do you use FSAA and AF, when gaming

As of right now no, I'm having serious problems...

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: caz67
Hi All.

What resolution, do you play your games at??

Also do you enable FSAA and AF during ??

I play mine, at 1280X1024 with 8xAF and 8x FSAA.

Has anyone played UT2K4 , its not available in my town yet??

Heck ya i use all the AF/AA my system can handle... what's the purpose with buying all these expensive videocards these days if you're not?

 

[yhelothar]

I use 2xAA and 2xAF
Then I just use the highest resolution possible

 

[IcePhoenix]

I use 4x AA and 8x AS @ 1024x768. Works good for me

 

[clicknext]

Always 4XAA, 16XAF. I find that on my Radeon9600Pro, there's not much of a performance difference between 4XAA and no AA, while the improved image quality of no jaggies is pretty big for me.

 

[Killrose]

4xAA 16xAF on everything @1024x768, play lots of BF1942, Vietcong, RTCW all on-line with my 9500np>9700 hack.

 

[TechJunkie95242]

Originally posted by: caz67
Hi All.

What resolution, do you play your games at??

Also do you enable FSAA and AF during ??

I play mine, at 1280X1024 with 8xAF and 8x FSAA.

Has anyone played UT2K4 , its not available in my town yet??

Ummm... To my knowledge there is no 8x AntiAliasing, 9800XT which I have goes up to 6xAA not 8xAA and its the most advanced gaming graphics card on the planet.. I may be wrong..

 

[caz67]

I forgot to mention that i have a Leadtek Fx5950Ultra 256mb.

It does offer 8xFSAA and 8x AF.

 

[TechJunkie95242]

Is it only for specific games or can you go into your control panel for that, because the 9800XT control panel only goes up to 6xAA..

thanks

 

[BFG10K]

Well i have just installed the latest Nvidia forceware 56.64.

Remember that peoples' settings will often be based on what card they have and what games they play. You'll have experiement a bit with your own configs to see what works best for you.

 

[NEVERwinter]

2xAA/4xAF 1024x768 works pretty good. if it's choppy, i'd turn AA/AF off.... and I'm still happy

 

[Jeff7]

Most games at 1024x768, with FSAA and AF, except for any of the Homeworld games - then it's 1280x1024(or 960, whichever), with no FSAA, but max AF.
Heck, I've got a 9700 Pro, gotta use the features.