No one talks about FSAA anymore

[nippyjun]

I find that even at 1600x1200x32 using FSAA makes games look better. But, the performance hit it much too great. Even on my tbird1.4 w/ Geforce3 system, when I turn on FSAA (quincunx or fsaa2x), my framerates drop too low. I had heard that the GF3TI500 was supposed to handle fsaa differently from a regular GF3 so that there would be less of a performance hit. Is this true. I would love to run games at 1600x1200x32 with FSAA. In fact I think that FSAA is still the most important recent new feature that video cards have. 3dfx really knew what they were doing with fsaa. At the time of my voodoo5 I could run games at 1280x1024 with 2xfsaa smoothly and it made a huge difference in visual quality. Now I'm spoiled by running at 1600x1200 and don't want to lower my resolution to 1280x1024 just to keep the framerates up. I wonder how the radeon will do fsaa.

 

[BenSkywalker]

I can't tell you about the performance of the R8500 handling FSAA, but their implementation is the best to date(better then 3dfx's) in terms of reducing aliasing based on their specifications(I'll get into if anyone wants, but it will be better as long as they are doing what they claim).

In terms of reducing aliasing, are you talking about texture aliasing or edge? If it is texture then use high tap ani, if it is edge then up the res another notch(or does your monitor go higher?).

 

[nippyjun]

It's edge. I'll see if I can go higher then 1600 on the games that I play.

 

[rogue1979]

I run my Geforce Pro at 1024 x 768 with FSAA set on 4X. Normally it is 32-bit, but for a few very intensive games like Mech 4, I have to go down to 16-bit to keep the framerates running smoothly. It definately looks better with 4X FSAA at 16-bit, then 2X at 32-bit. As long as my games run smoothly (30fps or so) I am happy, with image quality being the priority.

 

[merlocka]

I'm anxious to see the Geforce3 / ATI 8500 FSAA in reel life. I picked up a Voodoo5 a while back and didn't like the FSAA much more than the FSAA on my Geforce2. I guess I'm more of a high-res + filtering person than a FSAA person. The FSAA I've seen seemed to blur stuff too much for me.