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2006-06-02 06:44:27
Badcomp
Member
+2|7273|U.S.
The in game settings for AA or using your graphics cards drivers to render the AA?
I have noticed that my load times are quicker when using the in game AA (with the card's drivers set to "application specified"). Load times increase when using the card's setting and turning the game's AA settings off.
Has anyone else played around with this to see which is better for you?
I play on 1280X1024 (60mhz) with 4xAA using the in-game AA settings, just for the better load times.
2006-06-02 06:47:06
Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,058|7107|Little Bentcock
ok, juz 2 get this straight, what is anti aliasing?
2006-06-02 06:49:03
fierce
I love [fiSh]
+167|7053
Anti-Aliasing removes the stair effect on diagonal lines, therefore everything appears more smooth.

Hope you understand this, if not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_aliasing
2006-06-02 06:49:42
Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,058|7107|Little Bentcock
i got it thanks
2006-06-02 06:55:17
Frytrixa
Member
+10|7111|Germany
Best quality and Performance with ingame AA - But when your graphiccard supports Transparent-AA you have to enable it in your drivers with normal AA.
2006-06-02 06:58:15
Badcomp
Member
+2|7273|U.S.

Frytrixa wrote:

Best quality and Performance with ingame AA - But when your graphiccard supports Transparent-AA you have to enable it in your drivers with normal AA.
I have noticed I get a bit better performance with in game AA, which is surprising. I would have figured the drivers for the vid card to be more powerful/efficient.
2006-06-02 07:10:21
Frytrixa
Member
+10|7111|Germany
Its an unwritten rule that if games have the option "Anti-Aliasing"  that you have better performance with these settings then with the graphiccarddriver settings.

Only if you want to enable things like Super AA (Crossfire/SLI) or Transparent AA (X1xxx/7900 Series) you have to disable ingame AA and enable it in your driver.


EDIT: In Battlefield 2 I have disabled the AA Option in my Driver and enabled it in BF2. The Anisotropic Filter must be enabled in the Driver because BF2 has no ingame Option for that

Last edited by Frytrixa (2006-06-02 07:15:47)

2006-06-02 07:21:47
Badcomp
Member
+2|7273|U.S.

Frytrixa wrote:

Its an unwritten rule that if games have the option "Anti-Aliasing"  that you have better performance with these settings then with the graphiccarddriver settings.

Only if you want to enable things like Super AA (Crossfire/SLI) or Transparent AA (X1xxx/7900 Series) you have to disable ingame AA and enable it in your driver.


EDIT: In Battlefield 2 I have disabled the AA Option in my Driver and enabled it in BF2. The Anisotropic Filter must be enabled in the Driver because BF2 has no ingame Option for that
Cool. Thank you for that information!
I did find some Nvidia tweaked drivers that had some BF2 tweaks in them. I will try them out and see if I can tell a difference between the ingame settings and the video card settings.

 

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