Do U enable anti-aliasing?

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Lafie

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I was just wondering if you guys enable that in games. I don't because it affects your FPS so much and you don't see that much of a graphics improvement. So I wanna know if and why you enable anti-aliasing.

(maybe you guys can explain why or why not enable it so I can make a decision)
:cheers:
Thnx,
-=|Lafie|=-
 
Lafie said:
I was just wondering if you guys enable that in games. I don't because it affects your FPS so much and you don't see that much of a graphics improvement. So I wanna know if and why you enable anti-aliasing.

(maybe you guys can explain why or why not enable it so I can make a decision)
:cheers:
Thnx,
-=|Lafie|=-
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It depends but mostly I don't really bother with it, I certainly never bother with it at the highest settings. I haven't bothered using it in D3 as I don't see much difference and the drop in performance isn't worth it.
 
I can't stand aliased lines, so I use it whenever I get the chance.
 
I use it when I can, but for Doom3 I don't, that would sexually abuse my FPS.
 
I usually up the resolution, although it doesn't really bother me that much.
 
Abom said:
I can't stand aliased lines, so I use it whenever I get the chance.
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me too. only my chances are getting slimmer and slimmer. I need an upgrade!
 
4x for me in Doom 3, I don't see a performance decrease :thumbs:
 
i dont use it for doom3 my fps are low enough already :(
but in doom3 its less noticable then in other games, yes it does look a lot better,but its less noticable because of the darkness.

i never used anti anil.. and anistropic filt. but when i used it in a game a time i couldnt play without it anymore everything looks so jaggy and blurry without it :)

its weird because the first time u use it u dont really notice the difference but if u play a while with it and then turn it off everything looks ugly
 
I use it all the time in games, but I haven't been seeing any real jaggies in DOOM (using high resolution), so its staying off.
 
I used to be a antialiasing maniac, but when I've noticed how much of an FPS impact it is, I've just shut it down and aliased lines isn't directly the first thing you think of in a fast first-person shooter.
 
yea doom3 looks eek without AA

its my best friend
 
GF4 Ti 4200 underclocked to half memory speed = no AA for me :(
 
I have a 9600 pro and have AA on medium quality for Doom 3. But I've never used it in a game before....except max payne 2, for which I had everything on maximum detail.
 
max payne2 was the only game i aa in my life, doom3......hahahahahahhahaha.....i wish........
 
AA doesnt affect your fps if you have fast enough card..
I never used AA before but now that I have 6800 I put it on 2x or 4x
Doom3 runs great at 4x with Ultra settings..
 
thnx for all the replies.
I now do enable AA because I also could see big differents between on and off (and doesn't affect my fps so much as I thought, most of the time only 0-5 frames). I set it to 2x not higher, then I do get big FPS drops.

Another Question for you guys:
On what screen resolution are u playing?

I play on 1280x960 32 bit.
I can go to 1600x1200 or even higher but I don't see that much of a differents after 1280x960 and I can't enable AA anymore because my FPS would get much too low (it then drops about 10-15 frames wich is too low for me)

I find it strange that it doesn't really matter what game I play. I allways set the configurations like above, and it allways works well.
 
for Doom 3 it didn;t really matter on high settings but i turn it on jus cz i can ;)

u sud lower the colour depth to 16 since u dn;t really notice the diffrence anyway
 
I always enable it, i just can't stand those jagged edges, especially when im moving and I can really notice them....

Hell even 2x AA majes a huge difference in Doom3, and it barely makes an impact on my FPS
 
I usually have it on maximum but with games like FarCry and Doom3 I knock it down to 4x alongside 4x Ansiotropic Filtering, after playing antialiased games, turning antialiasing off is just not an option any more.
 
I like the crispness of aliased lines. I turned on 2x aa on max payne2, just for the hell of it. Oddly I feel I can be more accurate when there's a clear distinction between on-screen items. Dunno. Maybe I'm ambivalent.
 
Nope no AA for me, Its waisted performance imo.
 
I don't see a difference when I used it and when I don't...!

Prove me wrong, please...
 
I use some AA.
I always have at least 4X AF if I can. That is something I don't go without.
I try to balance Resolutoin and AA though.
 
Asus said:
I use some AA.
I always have at least 4X AF if I can. That is something I don't go without.
I try to balance Resolutoin and AA though.
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Me too.

I play D3 at 800 x 600 with 2 x AA, and it looks pretty good. My other option is 1024 x 768, with no AA.
 
Incase you guys didn't see this on the HL2Fallout Forums, some dude posted a tweak for DOOM 3 that works wonders. I got 30 + more FPS with this tweak. Go into your DoomConfig in the base folder. Find the line that says Image_CacheMegs (Its close to the bottom). The default setting is 20. If you have 512 megs of ram I suggest setting this to 128 instead of 20. Experiment with it for yourselves. Really helped my FPS. This loads textures ahead of time when you are playing so the transitions from door to door, room to room are a TON smoother, thus boosting FPS. Enjoy!
 
Farfege said:
Incase you guys didn't see this on the HL2Fallout Forums, some dude posted a tweak for DOOM 3 that works wonders. I got 30 + more FPS with this tweak. Go into your DoomConfig in the base folder. Find the line that says Image_CacheMegs (Its close to the bottom). The default setting is 20. If you have 512 megs of ram I suggest setting this to 128 instead of 20. Experiment with it for yourselves. Really helped my FPS. This loads textures ahead of time when you are playing so the transitions from door to door, room to room are a TON smoother, thus boosting FPS. Enjoy!
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been there - done that ;)
 
I always keep 4x AA and 16x AF on. I am very picky about how my games look.
 
what does AF do??

Doom 3 hasn't got an option for AF. So I can't test it out.
maybe someone can tell me.
thnx

Baal said:
I don't see a difference when I used it and when I don't...!

Prove me wrong, please...
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Well if you enable it and you walk throught a game all the diagonal lines on your screen are much more smooth and if you disable it you see a so called pixel ladder when looking at diagonal lines on your screen. you see all the pixels apart from each other wich gives you some sort of ladder effect. but at high screen resolutions (so with more pixels) you don't see that much of a ladder, but it's still there and I noticed a very big differents when I turned it off after I turned it on. I started to see those damn pixels again and that looks bad. Just try AA again and walk throught a map (look at some objects closely maybe) then turn it off and walk the same route again (and check the same objects) you will se the differents (especially when your moving, you then see the pixels ladder change from pixels wich is really noticable)
 
I think AF has something to do to stop the fading of textures as they are further from you, you know, when you have a line texture and you can see the line get blurry in the distance, I think AF stops that, Its something you can enable in your 3d card settings, same as AA

I had a bad performance in FARCRY untill I notised that I had AA off in FARCRY, but it was still on in the hardware settings, so after I turned it off in the hardware I never had any fps problems in that game.

I never use AA, the smoothness is more importand then quality, I might thing otherwise when the cards are getting that fast and all games are getting clipped @ 60 fps so the rest of the calculating power goes to the image quality
 
Don't use it, probally cause im more of an online gamer. And when im fragging I dont watch the scenery, I just want good FPS and be able to see the enemy models good.
 
The Dark Elf said:
It depends but mostly I don't really bother with it, I certainly never bother with it at the highest settings. I haven't bothered using it in D3 as I don't see much difference and the drop in performance isn't worth it.
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I concur. I dont see the point of using it when I play at resolutions like 1280x1024,... I enable it for Battlefield 1942, Painkiller or HL/mods... just for that extra crispness... but I would prefer to crank another option before I put on my AA for games like Farcry and Doom3.

warning though, once you do play with high AA on a high res, that res without AA looks horrible.. you notice all the jaggies.
so if your gonna spoil yourself make sure your system can handle it ;)
 
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