ATI neglects promise: No supersampling on R300

[ram]

http://www.driverheaven.net/display.php?page=ben_interview

[Zardon] Will The Catalysts for the 9700 support both multisampling and supersampling anti-aliasing in the near future, such as detailed here http://mirror.ati.com/vortal/r300/educational/main.html?

[Ben] [...] we currently have no plans to support supersample anti-aliasing on these products.

vs.

http://mirror.ati.com/vortal/r300/educational/main.html

SV 2.0 includes support for two forms of anti aliasing. The first, known as super-sampling, involved [....]. The second form of anti-aliasing supported by SV 2.0, known as multi-sampling, works a bit differently [...]

There are a few other interresting tibids, such as no 3d stereo support planned, that truform improvements are low priority, but faster AGP back transfers are coming. Half of their engineering staff is working on the software side.

 

[Dave Baumann]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3840