SuperAA/SLIAA

[tEd]

Does it also work if AA is only enabled in the game or only if AA is forced with CP?

 

[AlexV]

I speak only for the SuperAA part, in my experience it`s only worked when enabled through the CP. Trying to enable it in games like Quake4 or Doom3(the only ones I know of that actually allow for higher modes, like 8x or 16x) has resulted in crashes. Maybe that has changed, though I doubt it.

 

[tEd]

I speak only for the SuperAA part, in my experience it`s only worked when enabled through the CP. Trying to enable it in games like Quake4 or Doom3(the only ones I know of that actually allow for higher modes, like 8x or 16x) has resulted in crashes. Maybe that has changed, though I doubt it.

I was just wondering because many future games i assume will only allow AA enabled through the game and if Super/SLI AA wouldn't work that way , that would be really bad IMO.

 

[ChrisRay]

Control Panel for the most part. You can trick the Nvidia registry to have SLIAA enabled @ app preference AA, And I've gotten SLI4xAA to enable. But I dont believe it works either.

Chris

 

[tEd]

Control Panel for the most part. You can trick the Nvidia registry to have SLIAA enabled @ app preference AA, And I've gotten SLI4xAA to enable. But I dont believe it works either.

Chris

ok thanks

 

[digitalwanderer]

I was just wondering because many future games i assume will only allow AA enabled through the game

Why are you assuming that tEd?

( I'm not saying you're wrong, it just scares me as I respect your opinion and I'm an AA whore. )

 

[AlexV]

It`s not that bad I think. Probably ATi will follow nV's example WRT Control Panel AA:add an app over-ride thingie, like nV has for the G8x, and all shall still be cozy.

 

[tEd]

Why are you assuming that tEd?

( I'm not saying you're wrong, it just scares me as I respect your opinion and I'm an AA whore. )

Just because more and more games use rendertargets for any kind of effects which usually means AA through CP is a no go. So you are pretty much stuck with what the game offers you. These days it's mostly 4x if you are lucky maybe 6x.

 

[tEd]

It`s not that bad I think. Probably ATi will follow nV's example WRT Control Panel AA:add an app over-ride thingie, like nV has for the G8x, and all shall still be cozy.

Don't know about the override thingie , what does it do exactly?

 

[ChrisRay]

Just because more and more games use rendertargets for any kind of effects which usually means AA through CP is a no go. So you are pretty much stuck with what the game offers you. These days it's mostly 4x if you are lucky maybe 6x.

This is actually more of how the driver reports the capability I think. Every game that worked with 4x/6x on my ATI card supports 4x/8x/2x on my G80 card. or 2x/4x on my G7x card. Though from my understanding. Nvidia is working on getting CSAA supported in the same fashion.

 

[tEd]

This is actually more of how the driver reports the capability I think. Every game that worked with 4x/6x on my ATI card supports 4x/8x/2x on my G80 card. or 2x/4x on my G7x card. Though from my understanding. Nvidia is working on getting CSAA supported in the same fashion.

Can you give me an example. For instance when you choose 6x in HL2 you get 8x on your g80?

 

[ChrisRay]

Yup. Oblivion is a good example as well. Or WoW. Which recognises 8x multisampling on Nvidia hardware and 6x on ATI and 4x on G70 <. I'm not saying all software follows these rules. But the drivers should expose the level of multisampling.

Chris