Really bad "jaggies" in HL2. Please Help!

Firegod · 13 Jan 2007 at 12:55

Hi all,

I've noticed since re-installing HL2 to play again with my GTS that the image is quite shocking! :confused:

Please see the two screenshots below (I linked to full size 1280x1024 so as not to compress the problem):-

1. Notice the top of the water tower and the sides of the large tower.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/j_firegod/Computer/AA_2.jpg

2. The top of the window frame.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/j_firegod/Computer/AA_1.jpg

These are just two instances of the occurance around the game on most edges. So I checked all my settings which are as follows:-

In-Game
All maxed out (1280x1024), with AF forced to x16 and AA forced to the most - x6 AA

Nvidia CP
All maxed out, with everything set to High Quality (No Optimisations) and AA forced to x16 (Enhance Application) and AF to x16. Vsync on.

I'm really annoyed, because I don't remeber them being that noticeable. Do I perhaps need to disable AA "in-game", although then the Nvidia Enhance option wouldn't work, would it?

Thanks for any help!

sargatanas · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:03

As far as I know Nvidia cards don't do 6x AA, only 2,4, or 8. Try putting it down to 4x and see if it helps.

Firegod · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:10

sargatanas said:
As far as I know Nvidia cards don't do 6x AA, only 2,4, or 8. Try putting it down to 4x and see if it helps.

Ok, many thanks, I'll try that and report back.

ajgoodfellow · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:39

That'll be it - my brother has a 7800GT and had the same problem when the game was set to 6xAA but not when it's set to 4xAA

Zogger · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:21

yeh hl2 is exceedingly ugly with 6xaa for me. I'm sure it's even more ugly than when I set no aa, but I think that's just my imagination

DJKahuna · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:35

eh, i can get 6xaa without a problem on this 7600GT. :confused:

Also, i had exactly the same problem where AA wasn't "activating". Basically, i checked that i'd set AA to auto in NVControl Panel, and restarted and changed setting for AA from 6x to off and then back again. Seemed to do the trick.

Firegod · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:50

Well that's done the trick peeps! What would I do without you all!

Can't believe it, I just assume "ok x6 is better than x4". Never thought that it wouldn't work. I've set it to x4 and now it looks amazing. No jaggies at all!

Two screenshots to compare against the above ones if anyone is interested:-

Elrein · 13 Jan 2007 at 15:33

Yep 6xAA on nVidia effectively diables the AA alltogether