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AA & Aniso. settings for games
I am a little lost on using AA and the Anisotropic settings with my games.
I have BFG6800Ultra and a pretty fast rig for playing games. Under my display properties I had been using the selection "application controlled". What are "ideal" settings for games like FarCry, Doom3, etc (I know each game is different and it varies by system) I just need help understanding what AA setting I should use 2x, 4x, etc. in conjunction with Aniso. 1,2,4,6,8,12x... Should I set everything to max and hope for the best (trial & error)? Thanks, MJ |
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I just need help understanding what AA setting I should use 2x, 4x, etc. in
conjunction with Aniso. 1,2,4,6,8,12x... Should I set everything to max and hope for the best (trial & error)? Yeah it's pretty much as high as you can go, as long as the game works OK with the settings and your framerate is not too low. I use atuner it lets you set up each game with it's own settings for AA and AF. I know the Nvidia drivers have that option, but atuner is easier to setup and use IMO. |
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In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, MJ ordered an army of hamsters to
type: I am a little lost on using AA and the Anisotropic settings with my games. I have BFG6800Ultra and a pretty fast rig for playing games. Under my display properties I had been using the selection "application controlled". What are "ideal" settings for games like FarCry, Doom3, etc (I know each game is different and it varies by system) I just need help understanding what AA setting I should use 2x, 4x, etc. in conjunction with Aniso. 1,2,4,6,8,12x... Should I set everything to max and hope for the best (trial & error)? Thanks, MJ Adjust to your own personal tastes. I recommend doing a few google searches finding out exactly what Anisotropic filtering, and AntiAliasing is and try different settings out in games and decide on settings you like, those settings may actually be 12xAniso and 8xAA, or you may think the opposite and prefer sheer framerates over quality. The higher settings you chose the larger the performance hit maybe... though with that graphics card its not going to be a as larger hinderance as it would be with other cards. For instance; I feel happy to use MS flight sim at 4xAA and 2xAniso, I dont feel as if higher quality settings add more to the game and the extra frame rates (the card is an XFX built 6800GT) are welcome. But everyones personal tastes are different; my brother refuses to use anything but the highest qualities. happy playing Kokoro |
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"MJ" wrote in message nk.net... I am a little lost on using AA and the Anisotropic settings with my games. I have BFG6800Ultra and a pretty fast rig for playing games. Under my display properties I had been using the selection "application controlled". What are "ideal" settings for games like FarCry, Doom3, etc (I know each game is different and it varies by system) I just need help understanding what AA setting I should use 2x, 4x, etc. in conjunction with Aniso. 1,2,4,6,8,12x... Should I set everything to max and hope for the best (trial & error)? Thanks, MJ Adjust to suit your taste! The higher the settings you use, the bigger the performance hit. Luckily, it is easy to use custom settings for individual games. Leave the global defaults as they are, and just add custom profiles for any game you want - perhaps you could try one out to see the effects. (To add a profile, just click Add..., then browse to select the game executable, type in the name you want to use.) Anti-Aliasing gets rid of the jagged lines, most noticeable in low resolutions. Anisotropic filtering improves image quality for scenes with objects that extend from the foreground deep into the background. To add more confusion, another choice to make (in advanced settings) is wether to use anisotropic optimsations - these help performance when you do anisotropic filtering. I don't have as good a card as you, so I tend to stick with 2x for both FSAA and AF, with AF optimizations enabled. |
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It's different for every game.And it also depends on how fast the rest of your
system is. In Far Cry for example,I tried running a benchmark at 1024x768 w no AA and Aniso at 8x. It was in the high 20's. Tried at 4X AA and 0 aniso and it was in the high 40's to low fifties. Wit AA and Aniso both off it ran in the 70's. I thought it was kinda slow though. My setup is: CT-VNF3-250 nForce 3 754 mobo A64 2800+ CPU 512M PC3700 DDR Nvidia Geforce FX5900. |
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