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Hardware or Software in games?

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nicksource

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When you play games do you have AA and all the other fancy graphic options set in the GPU Control Panel or in the game? How do you set it up or balance the different settings?

Currently I have it all decided by software but wondering if this is the best method?
 
There's no 'hardware or software' about it.

It's all handled by the display driver, which interfaces the harware (your card) with the API (direct-X or OpenGL) and the OS. When you set AA/AF in-game, it simply makes a call to the driver option.

So, there is no real difference. But these days most games have in-game options for AA/AF, so it generally pays to leave it on 'application-controlled' in the driver control panel as this allows you to use different settings in different games, without having to use driver profiles. In times gone by it wasn't common for games to have internal options for these things, so people tended to set up advanced display options in the driver CP.

Basically, do whichever is most convenient for you.
 
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