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FSAA in Rogue Spear...1024x768x32 feasable?

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ahfung, do you play on mplayer? That is where I play...I find it more reliable though a tad slower. My mplayer name is zippy4876. 🙂

I'm thinking about a Radeon 32MB DDR or a Radeon AIW 32MB DDR. That would be nice. 😀 The 64MB DDR would be a lil too much horsepower for Rogue Spear and next month, Covert Ops...though, I'll see. Have to see what the prices are.

I definately don't want a GeForce or GeForce2GTS for image quality reasons (2d/3d). 🙂 Rogue Spear isn't exactly a game where you need the most fps. 😛
 
Nooooo!! are you mad? didn't you see the FSAA shots in Anand's article? MAN it looked crap! This isn't FSAA, it's just some kinda blurring they threw together in two seconds. Looks like something that lies between the GF's OFF and quality 1 setting......ewwww
 
Prodigy^, from what I've seen in this thread it seems like FSAA in RS isn't exactly the smartest thing to do (HBS (errr...heartbeat sensor) and map go blurry people are saying...) so I prolly won't do FSAA anyways...unless I go V5 5500. Which I very well may do. 😛
 
"So how do you calculate when a 32MB GeForce will "downshift" its fsaa settings when it's out of memory? Take the 2x2 quality setting. I know the card can do 1600x1200x32. So that's like rendering an 800x600x32 screen with 2x2 fsaa, right? Not exactly sure if that factors in everything."

There is no set resolution or color depth that invokes the downshift, and 1600x1200 32bit doesn't work on every game with a 32MB GF. I wrote up a bit on this subject, included a bunch of benches using the 5.22 drivers(the 5.32 are quite a bit quicker), and found that it is somewhat of a guessing game. If you want to, you can check it out-

http://www.crosswinds.net/~benskywalker/fsaa.htm

I'm rerunning the benches with the 5.32s for an update and so far every singel FSAA bench is faster with the 5.32s, ranging from mild boost to dramatic but the settings used are still the same.
 
Wow, it's nice to see more RS players here. Please look me up for a game, my zone name is SanDog_death and my game name is deathblow_SanDog. I always and only play in Concrete Jungle, an Urban Ops room. Please look me up...


oh, I have an Elsa Gladiac and play at 1600X1200. Looks and runs great.
 
<< I wrote up a bit on this subject, included a bunch of benches using the 5.22 drivers(the 5.32 are quite a bit quicker), and found that it is somewhat of a guessing game. If you want to, you can check it out >>

Thanks! I did check it out and there's a lot of great reporting there. Wish I had read that before deciding on a 32 MB card -- heck who am I kidding I could barely convince myself to fork over the $$$ for the 32 MB GeForce 2! It really looks like 64 MB is the way to go, though, especially for folks who do play with the fsaa modes some and who also putz around with 32-bit color.

Thankfully, when I do enable fsaa it happens to be in titles that are cpu limited. So I can get 2x2 in 1024x768x16 with nice performance.
 
Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced | GeForce DDR | Additional Properties | Direct3D Setings | More Direct3D | Antialiasing


<phew> 😉

Well, that's how it is for me anyways. Det 5.32
 
LocutusX, yeah it's a major PITA to change fsaa settings, isn't it? I got so annoyed I created a bunch of .reg files and plopped shortcuts on my desktop to change settings quickly.
 
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