How to enable FSAA in Quake3 and SOF ??

[Nvidia2000]

How do i enable FSAA in Quake or SOF ?? i have a CLA2 with Nvidia reference driver...... any opinion ?

 

[BenSkywalker]

Start
-Settings
--Control Panel
---Dispaly
----Settings
-----Advanced
------GeForce DDR
-------Additional Properties
--------OpenGL Settings

Scroll down the menu and there will be a chackbox to enable FSAA for OpenGL. Just to let you know, unlike D3D, FSAA in OpenGL is either on or off, if you are using too high of a resolution FSAA will simply shut off.

BTW- You should Detonator drivers 5.22 or later(5.30 and 5.32 are a large improvement).

 

[Mikewarrior2]

not so, there are the quality settings that kyle from HardOCP had on his site about a week ago. It adjusts OpenGL FSAA quality level. e-mail me if you want it.

For example, 640x480x32 q3

FSAA low 93.4
FSAA high(or normal) 60.6



Mike

 

[BenSkywalker]

Mike-

That is what I'm talking about. If you set the registry setting for 2(default 0) and utilize 2x2 FSAA under OpenGL it will simply shut off when it can no longer push that setting. It will not revert back to 1.5x1.5 FSAA, it simply disables it. As far as it being new, Kyle is way behind on this one, Anand made mention of this when he first tested the GF2 over a month ago(and the registry settings were right where I thought they would be, didn't take long to find them).

For some comparitive screenshots of the three different FSAA settings, taken at 640x480 in Q3 UHQ settings-

Edit New Link http://www.crosswinds.net/~benskywalker/screenshots.htm

The top set of images are downloadable, the bottom set link to a page with .png images(roughly 600KB if I recall). These shots are slightly misleading for the registry setting 1, if you use any setting below HQ for texture detail the game becomes horribly blurry, and there is next to no performance difference between reg setting 1 and 2 so you are far better of to use 2. I don't know if Kyle covered this in depth or not, I missed the article myself but I am quite familiar with how the settings work. Some benches if you are interested-

Edit- New link http://www.crosswinds.net/~benskywalker/quake3.htm

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Your benches are great. I was just referring to the quality(didn't know you were also talking about hte same ).

Kyle just had htem all bunched up in a giant zip with reg entries for the various OGL Fsaa settings. I don't remember anand talking about them. I'm guessing FSAA Quality 0 is low, 1 is medium, and 2 is high?

I am actually not using any, i prefer q3 @1024x768 no fsaa.



mike

 

[BenSkywalker]

Thanks for the compliment

Yep,

0= "Low Quality" = 1.5x1.5 FSAA, default setting

1= "Medium Quality" = 2x2 FSAA with mips at displayed resolution

2= High Quality = 2x2 with mips at rendered resolution

I have low quality and high quality in quotes because the more tests I run, the less I can stand the "1" setting. IMHO it looks like complete sh!t unless you have very high quality mips to start with such as Q3 using HQ or better texture detail. Q2, or the lower Q3 settings look like vomit. I have the 1024x768 numbers up now, the link above won't show them(until I edit it) as that page was never labled properly and had a messed up URL(I will edit it so it does work).

BTW- I'm with you on higher res over FSAA

 

[Nvidia2000]

How do i set the Low, Medium and High ( 0,1,2 ) thing in the registry ????? please show me a map in regedit ... thx ......

 

[BenSkywalker]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\System
\CurrentControlSet
\Services
\Class
\Display
\0001
\NVIDIA
\OpenGL

Double Click on FSAAQuality and set your value, default is 0. All the standard blah blah you can trash your registry and Windows install of course