NVIDIA's OpenGL anisotropic filtering on trial

[CKXP]

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index....=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=28

So, from what we've seen, thankfully this issue doesn't seem to be as serious as it potentially could have been - Most reviewers (and hopefully enthusiasts) will always use in-game settings to control anisotropic filtering where it is available (Which, let's face it, is the majority of modern games), and thus for the vast majority of users neither image quality nor benchmark results have been compromised by this bug. Add to that the fact that not all OpenGL titles seem to be affected, and I think it's safe to say we can avoid reaching all-out panic stations regarding any dodgy 'optimisations' or the like.

 

[BFG10K]

I'm not sure how they were forcing AF through the control panel given nVidia doesn't allow it in Doom 3 and Quake 4 because the profiles force application preference.

 

[Gstanfor]

Two things. First off elitebastards is one of the largest ATi fansites on the 'net, and also a place where digitalwanderer posts. I think that explains quite nicely why they thought they were forcing AF in the control panel...

Secondly, the following is a quote from Grestorn, the creator of nHancer and explains quite nicely why the whole OpenGL bruhah is a total non-issue (at least for those intelligent enough to install and use nHancer).

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Originally Posted by Deathlike2
Apparently there's a horrible bug with the profiles specifically with OpenGL games in that the optimizations are not turned off when the High Quality setting is selected unless you manually disable the optimizations before you select High Quality.
The bug is not with the profile system but the control panel.

Obviously the panel "thinks" that HQ will also turn off all optimizations. But that's not the case - at least not with OpenGL games.

If you don't use the control panel at all to define your profiles (or to change the global settings) but a third party tool like nHancer, you won't have a problem with that, since nHancer allows you to change any optimization settings regardless of which quality setting you're using.