POLL: AA & AF - Important?

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Avalon

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Jul 16, 2001
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I play all my games at 1024x768, but I rarely use AA or AF. Only game I use AA for is FarCry, and I use a 2x setting for that. The jaggies are just too noticeable to me, even when I'm running around and shooting. However, I try not to use AF at all. It gives me a noticeable performance hit, and I see no difference in IQ. I can probably attribute this to most of my games being FPS's, but I think jaggies are much more glaring eyesores than blurry textures far off in the distance when a monster is running up to my face and I'm unloading my weapon on him.
 

JBT

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Nov 28, 2001
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I use it any where possible but if not I reduce AA first then if still no go AF will take a trip. I love AF. I am starting to notice I am having to lower settings more and more lately with my 9500 Pro So I am waiting on the GT's to hit the market and then I will be shopping with price/performance ratio again.
 

SneakyStuff

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I use it in Quake III and Enemy Territory, nothing else, I don't think the loss of performance is worth it, besides, my image quality is already set on high in the nVidia control panel, all my games look just fine.