holy cow using AF can really make a massive visual improvement

[toyota]

I normally run 16x AF in games either through the game or forced through the control panel. most of the time I never think about it but it sure does make a massive visual improvement in an older game like Mafia. and these screens got resized but at 1920x1080 is even more noticeable.

 

[Powermoloch]

derp !

congrats it's amazing right ?

 

[blanketyblank]

which is which? I'm guessing bottom one is AF since textures seem less blurry, butI could be wrong.

 

[Powermoloch]

which is which? I'm guessing bottom one is AF since textures seem less blurry, butI could be wrong.

Duh, you are right !

 

[Dadofamunky]

You're right - that is a substantial improvement

 

[Spike]

I always turn it up but never knew if it really did anything... now I know!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Gotta say I'm surprised at how many people had no clue what it was, especially considering how much of a hot button topic filtering is on here.

If I remember correctly, the low performance hit of AF (and useable AA) was one of the big reasons for the 9700 Pro being considered so godly.

I can't recall what cards/series it was, but it became such a low performance hit that ever since there's no reason not to use it these days. I assume many games now just auto set it, probably have to with the blurring and other effects (depth of field) that they use so that it doesn't interfere with the overall aesthetic they're going for.

It does have a pretty big impact on image quality. It was a glaring issue in the default settings on Oblivion, so it should be one of the first things you turn on there.

 

[BFG10K]

If I remember correctly, the low performance hit of AF (and useable AA) was one of the big reasons for the 9700 Pro being considered so godly.

Yup, that card is the reason why I’ve been running 16xAF since 2002.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Yea I run COD:UO on AA/AF X16/32 looks.....cooler

 

[nemesismk2]

I've always used 16x AF for all the video cards i've owned apart from the Videologic Kyro2 lol

 

[nanaki333]

i used to think it didn't matter when you play at at least 1080p. i did what you did, except no screenshots, just paid close attention. And WOW! anything above 8x i couldn't really tell though. my lasik ain't what it used to be

 

[Absolution75]

AF is without a doubt the biggest visual quality increase you can make.

I always run at least 4x, if not 8x now. 16x versus 8x doesn't seem to make that much of a difference sometimes.

 

[Dice144]

After reading this I tried 4x and 8x AA on Starcraft 2 with my GTX 460 768mb @ 1920x1080 and it was getting 19 fps. The game would crash on 8x and higher. So I turned it off restarted and back to 100 fps when I start the map.

 

[wanderer27]

After reading this I tried 4x and 8x AA on Starcraft 2 with my GTX 460 768mb @ 1920x1080 and it was getting 19 fps. The game would crash on 8x and higher. So I turned it off restarted and back to 100 fps when I start the map.

This is AF, not AA.

 

[Zanovar]

This is AF, not AA.

i am still not seeing 30-fps60 jumps(am i special?)5 years of gaming...

 

[Dice144]

My bad. going to try AF.

 

[CurseTheSky]

In general, AF reduces blurriness of textures. AA reduces jaggedness of edges.

If you're limited by your graphics card, pump AF up first, and see if you can squeeze in at least 2xAA. Higher levels of AA do help, but they're not as drastic of an improvement.

 

[busydude]

When ever I start playing a game.. I first crank all the settings/eye candy to max.. then cut down on it.. until I get playable framerates.

 

[nanaki333]

When ever I start playing a game.. I first crank all the settings/eye candy to max.. then cut down on it.. until I get playable framerates.

that could be a pain in the butt if you are not starting out in an action packed area that will tax the card immediately

 

[busydude]

that could be a pain in the butt if you are not starting out in an action packed area that will tax the card immediately

I used to run a frankenfire setup of 5770+5750 until recently.. My CPU would bottleneck first in all the games I played. Now I only game with a 5770.. and most of my games are running just fine at maxed settings. I need to upgrade my CPU I guess.. before anything else.

 

[nanaki333]

I used to run a frankenfire setup of 5770+5750 until recently.. My CPU would bottleneck first in all the games I played. Now I only game with a 5770.. and most of my games are running just fine at maxed settings. I need to upgrade my CPU I guess.. before anything else.

no chance of unlocking that phenom x2 to an x4?

 

[busydude]

no chance of unlocking that phenom x2 to an x4?

Nop.. I did not plan on unlocking, I am happy with how this thing OC's(I can OC to 4.2GHz with slight bump in Vcore). It does unlock to an X4.. but the 4th core is unstable, and Gigabyte boards do not support unlocking individual cores. Being a major in statistics helps .. I bought this is as X2.

 

[nanaki333]

well played good sir

or shall i say DUDE! i'm so funny.......

 

[Skurge]

that could be a pain in the butt if you are not starting out in an action packed area that will tax the card immediately

Lol, reminds me of crysis. Game would run fine at those settings, but as soon as I got to frost, the game would be a slideshow. That built in benchmark was also complete rubbish. Totally unrealistic framerates.

 

[toyota]

Lol, reminds me of crysis. Game would run fine at those settings, but as soon as I got to frost, the game would be a slideshow. That built in benchmark was also complete rubbish. Totally unrealistic framerates.

game and driver updates fixed that at least for Nvidia. the game runs just the same now in the frost levels as it does anywhere else.