Catalyst 4.7

[ailevation]

:dozey: Temporal AA is in this new release cool!

 

[Pressure]

Oh my the 4.7s are out.

Whats Temporal AA?

 

[ailevation]

:naughty: These drivers are theb est one's out for me so far. Performance hit made me go , I am playing with 4x Temporal AA it's runs so smooth, not even a noticeable hit in FPS.

Temporal AA is something where the drivers enable AA automatically, depending on your current FPS. I am not sure when it is activated and when it is deactivated, you can probably notice change in smoothness... but I noticed smoothness throughout the whole gameplay in the games I played so far. So, at a certain FPS AA will turn on when your FPS drops to a certain point AA is turned off.

 

[63]

Some one's been watching to much Star Trek...

 

[Murray_H]

I'm lazy, link me

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: NOTE: Temporal AA could be and was used to be enabled through registry tweaks through older drivers. But I am sure the one in the 4.7's and the other ones are basically the same.


http://www.elitebastards.com/page.php?pageid=4533&head=1&comments=1

 

[Pressure]

Do I have to enable it or is it done for me already?

 

[ailevation]

You have to enable it. Go to 3D/ Direct 3d or OpenGL/ Custom/ pretty noticeable from there.

 

[blahblahblah]

I tested the temporal AA on several games/benchmarks.

System Specs.
- Athlon XP 2800+ @ stock
- X800 Pro @ stock
- 1 GB of RAM

Results:

3D Mark 2003, resolution set at 1024 by 768
No AA and AF, score = 9205 (was 8865 with Cat 3.6)
2 AA, 8 AF temporal AA off, score = 4950
2 AA, 8 AF temporal AA on, score = 5005

Halo, settings max with resolution set at 1280 by 1024
No AA and AF, score = 57 FPS
2 AA, 8 AF temporal AA off, score = 36 FPS
2 AA, 8 AF temporal AA on, score = 37 PFS

I also did a quick test with Battlefield Vietnam. I notice severe frame rate problems when Temporal AA was enabled. Resolution was at 1280 by 960 all settings were maxed. I tested on "Operation Irving" with 64 bots. When I have time, I will re-test to make sure the bots weren't artificially slowing things down.

As for image quality, 2 temporal AA looks as good as 4 AA. I did not notice any "flickering" when the framerates dropped below 60 FPS. However, I did start to get a headache after staring at the screen for a while looking for visible "flickering." Either my headache was caused by temporal AA or I was staring at my monitor too hard.

 

[SidewinderX]

well, deifnitly have to get these...

 

[Letters]

Wow, sounds sweet!

 

[The.Spiral]

Mmmmmmm, temporal AA....

 

[Letters]

What the ****, ATI? You don't release drivers for mobility Radeons?! I have to download a separate tool to do it myself or wait for the Omegas! What shit!

Update: The tool, DHmod is, luckily, very easy to use and I got them installed alright... but still... and I don't think those 'smartshader effects' were there before? Those sound cool... :naughty:

 

[Gajdycz]

um, on aqua mark 3 i got a 29,994 with 4.6, on 4.7 i got 14k, wtf? with temporal AA on

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: DId you use any AA or AF with the 3.6? 14K is obvious because you had temporal AA, it's still AA. I am guessing temporal AA wont be so temporal if you can get it over a certain frame I.E. A steady 100 FPS and up will mean AA is going to stay on.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

What's the point in temporal AA anyway? If you want AA then you turn it on if you can run the game acceptably with AA then you just turn it on. i reckon it's a bit of a useless idea, someone tell me I'm wrong because I usually am.

 

[TheRook]

Temporal AA and normal AA are not just about auto coming on if ur FPS's good... Normal AA has in effect sort of a 4 dot systema nd lookst at the pixels around those 4 dots and then decides which bits need smoothing (blurring) and the "4" dots are always in the same place and its done the same way... while temporal AA (if im remembering correctly i was only reading about this when it was brand new news afew months back) uses the same 4 dot style.. but instead of them being in the same place the location of the dots are constantly changing... hope that makes sense... so its more of a funky way of doing AA (i didnt know about the auto turning on and off feature... so im not too sure about that...)

Andy

 

[Gunner]

neat, thanks for the heads up!

 

[Fletch]

there's a small explanation of temporal AA here www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1583549,00.asp - it just confirms what TheRook pointed out about the new sampling methods.

 

[TheRook]

;~) dont i treat you guys good... :naughty:

Andy

 

[dassbaba]

i will update teh ATI drivers soon, too lazy to right now

i haven't tweaked my card at all too...