In the other thread you mentioned about NVIDIA "explicitly" stating Quality = Trilinear (or "Application without Debug"). I've not gone through the recording yet (there was, afterall, about 4 hours worth!), however here is a snip from the reviewers guide. The reviewers guide itself doesn't expliciatly state that Quality is Trilinear, but it does display the following:
As you can see the guide advocates the use of SamX's app, downloaded from here no less, to display the quality of tha AF filtering. In that shot they have the full AF quality, with full Trilinear enabled.
Following the guide a number of reviewers (Lars at Toms) diligently downloaded the app and showed all the quality options available - clearly demonstrating full Trilinear in all modes when AF was enabled. Here, for example is the OpenGL app running in Quality with the 44.03:
Now, for interest, there is also a D3D version, this is the output of the D3D version:
As we'd expect, given their guide: full Trilinear. Curiously look what happens when the driver control panels are kep the same but the exe of the d3d version is renamed to "ut2003.exe":
(I kid you not, please try this yourselves) Not actually that much of a surprise, since when knew they were dropping down the filtering levels. However, clearly they are advocating the use of this application to demonstrate the filtering quality and then doing something else when the "ut2003.exe" was detected.
Interestingly, lets take a look at what it does to the Aniso quality. First is just the standard app name with Quality 8X AF. I can;t use the full colours because curiously the app flicks back to 1X AF:
This is the same settings at name "ut2003.exe":
Though its difficult to see it appears that there is still the Bi/Trilinear mix there, however they haven't altered the filter kernel shape which is quite interesting.
As you can see the guide advocates the use of SamX's app, downloaded from here no less, to display the quality of tha AF filtering. In that shot they have the full AF quality, with full Trilinear enabled.
Following the guide a number of reviewers (Lars at Toms) diligently downloaded the app and showed all the quality options available - clearly demonstrating full Trilinear in all modes when AF was enabled. Here, for example is the OpenGL app running in Quality with the 44.03:
Now, for interest, there is also a D3D version, this is the output of the D3D version:
As we'd expect, given their guide: full Trilinear. Curiously look what happens when the driver control panels are kep the same but the exe of the d3d version is renamed to "ut2003.exe":
(I kid you not, please try this yourselves) Not actually that much of a surprise, since when knew they were dropping down the filtering levels. However, clearly they are advocating the use of this application to demonstrate the filtering quality and then doing something else when the "ut2003.exe" was detected.
Interestingly, lets take a look at what it does to the Aniso quality. First is just the standard app name with Quality 8X AF. I can;t use the full colours because curiously the app flicks back to 1X AF:
This is the same settings at name "ut2003.exe":
Though its difficult to see it appears that there is still the Bi/Trilinear mix there, however they haven't altered the filter kernel shape which is quite interesting.
