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Gaming at 16x AF and 16x AA for the past 10 months without knowing!!

XtAsY

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I just realised this morning that I've been playing all my games with 16X AF and 16xQ AA since at least last august without realising! I was checking out my nvidia control panel and saw in the global settings that the AA and AF were maxed and forced to overide application settings!

I know some of you will think I'm just making a big deal but I was shocked as I never normally have any AA or AF enabled and yet I still get smooth frame rate in Bioshock and Unreal Tournament 3, must be at least 60 FPS most of the time. How good is the 8800GTX?! Now I might be able to get quite a lot of extra performance out of Crysis if I create a new profile for that game and bring the AA and AF down.

But I'm just amazed I've been playing with AA and AF maxed out without knowing all this time. lol
 
Wouldn't individual game profiles override the global setting?

I'm a bit skeptical that you could be running 16xAA without noticing, I'd imagine even SLI rigs would struggle.
 
Dark_Angel said:
So am I... maybe in older games, but certainly not things like UT3 or Oblivion...
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I've looked at my profiles and it looks like they are all set to "use global settings" which is the menu where the AA and AF have been set to full. This is really quite bizarre.

EDIT - The forceware im using is pretty old, its 163.75
 
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Easy way to tell....switch it off again.
You're used to it now, so turning it all off should look quite foul.

There are problems with some drivers not doing AA, but don't think your version is new enough (not sure though).


On my machine, some games couldn't care less at 16Q+16, others choke badly.

I tend to have them on by default for MSTS (which basically just needs them to look less than vile), so I often pile into some big game or other with them on.
 
Easy way -

Download fraps (even the free version) run it at the settings you are using now, and then afterwards turn off the x16 AA and see if there is an FPS difference.

(Oh - and when I say use fraps I obviously mean use the FPS counter on it, not record it for our viewing pleasure)

Though if you do want to take a few screen shots of a few intense areas and plop them up on image shack with 0xAA and 16 then thats ok :)
 
WesleyBurns said:
My 9800GX2 sucks with even just 2xAA on just about any "higher" resolution when playing Crysis
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I run Crysis at 1920x1200 with zero AA or AF, and it's smooth, gets laggy when tons of action on it though, so need another 8800Gt and I'll be sorted.

I run UT2004 with 16xAA and 16xAF with VSYNV and it's smoother than cameran diazs @rse... I run UT3 at 1920x1200 with 2xAA and 4xAF with VSync and it's smoother than cameron diazs @rse smoothered in honey... so happy days...

I might try and run crysis with some AA/AF tonight and see the whole system come crumbling to it's knees lol...

Cheers
Pug
 
XtAsY said:
EDIT - The forceware im using is pretty old, its 163.75
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Mmm interesting. A couple months back I saw a thread with a guy that was using an old driver (I'm pretty sure it was a 163.xx) and he apparently had better performance than other people using later drivers.
 
pretty sure that regardless of what global settings you use, some games don't use nvidia cp applied settings regardless of how hard you try. So you might find that some games just turn the feature off no matter how you set it.
 
pugheaven said:
I run Crysis at 1920x1200 with zero AA or AF, and it's smooth, gets laggy when tons of action on it though, so need another 8800Gt and I'll be sorted.

I run UT2004 with 16xAA and 16xAF with VSYNV and it's smoother than cameran diazs @rse... I run UT3 at 1920x1200 with 2xAA and 4xAF with VSync and it's smoother than cameron diazs @rse smoothered in honey... so happy days...

I might try and run crysis with some AA/AF tonight and see the whole system come crumbling to it's knees lol...

Cheers
Pug
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Yea, im pretty picky about frame rates and lagging, i mean as it is Crysis even without AA/AF on just High isnt the best at 1920x1200. Thats why i cant wait for next months care line up. :D

The 9800GX2, as the 7950GX2 was, is just a stop gap before the next gen cards come out, which Crysis is. All the next gen games will follow Crysis, and ive seen even FarCry2 is comming :) besides Startcraft2 which would run on at 7xxx card just fine :)

Other than that, i can play HL2 etc at 1920x1200 with MAX'd AA and AF lol even my 8800GTX could and all the rest:)
 
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lol

Anyway, as said, some games just wont use the forced settings, I dont think Ut3 will use AA for example. (Although I think that particular one was patched)
 
pugheaven said:
I run Crysis at 1920x1200 with zero AA or AF, and it's smooth, gets laggy when tons of action on it though, so need another 8800Gt and I'll be sorted.

I run UT2004 with 16xAA and 16xAF with VSYNV and it's smoother than cameran diazs @rse... I run UT3 at 1920x1200 with 2xAA and 4xAF with VSync and it's smoother than cameron diazs @rse smoothered in honey... so happy days...

I might try and run crysis with some AA/AF tonight and see the whole system come crumbling to it's knees lol...

Cheers
Pug
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8800GT don't like AA, so good luck

although no card runs Crysis with AA on at playable/decent framerate with high res
 
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