What is Anti-Aliasing? and what it does?
Last edited by colonelioan (2006-12-28 11:52:26)
a process of smoothing out the appearance artifacts (jagged edges)
as i understand it, it smothings lines out
http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_1.html
This site has a nice guide for BF2, as well: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
This site has a nice guide for BF2, as well: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html
Last edited by chittydog (2006-12-28 11:57:03)
What they said..and unless your absolutely sure that your PC can handle it..DO NOT TURN IT ON
Pixels are squares. A diagonal line cannot be drawn with squares. Anti-aliasing changes the colors of the adjacent pixels to make things look less blocky.
Does an 7800 GSOC Overclocked AGP card + 1.5 GB of RAM can maki it run at 2 or 4x?
Last edited by colonelioan (2006-12-28 12:07:19)
umm it really doesn't matter what video card you have that makes it run at 2x or 4x i have the same video card and i run it at 2x cause it pretty much looks the same and makes the game run that little bit faster.
I want a precise answer Please!
My Suggestion is to leave it off..since the difference in games like Battlefield aren't that noticable unless you actually are laying somewhere in the distance as a sniper, but when flying, driving, or running around you won't actually see the difference...
Jawohl mein herr! *salutes* Many of the answers above are precise: it smooths the appearance of edges of higher contrast, giving a more natural-looking appearance.colonelioan wrote:
I want a precise answer Please!
Want to see what this is like in practice, look at a few pages in the awards thread: http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=8150
See the crappy graphics that some guys like me have, with jaggies on angled edges and curves? That's no anti-aliasing. Compare it to the great images that some of the other guys post, with shadows and lovely smooth-looking lines, they'll generally have it on.
mm, I have it on 4x + all high settings and then 16x Anisotropic filtering and then 8xS Antialiasing and you do notice quite a difference when you turn it off...imo. The straight lines are defiantly not straight...RDMC(2) wrote:
My Suggestion is to leave it off..since the difference in games like Battlefield aren't that noticable unless you actually are laying somewhere in the distance as a sniper, but when flying, driving, or running around you won't actually see the difference...