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Transparency AA - now available for your GeForce 6 card!

dan7827 said:
Also thanks to sunlitsix for posting this or I would never have found it, I love SSAA! :D
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:cool: i knew it would make 6 series owners happy :D

that was a nice comparisoon you did there, did you use the built in time demo for the tests?
 
The fps were taken from the exact same place I took the screenshots but without being zoomed in on the fence. I didn't know there was a built in time demo but I’ll check that out now and the results should be similar.
 
haven't got css :p. Haven’t got the option you mentioned in lost coast either :confused: are there different versions of lost coast? i did a search for any demo files and it came up empty, so is there anywhere to download a timedemo for lost coast?
 
Edit: Realised I'd accidently put AA off in nVidia control panel. Done it again with proper settings. Changes below.


Just installed this and ran the Lost Coast stress test.

Setup:

AMD64 3000+
6600GT
1GB

All at stock.

Game settings:

Resolution - 1280x960
Model detail - High
Texture detail - High
Shader detail - High
Water detail - Reflect world
Shadow detail - High
HDR - Full

Results:

AA - 2x
AF - 8x
SSAA Off - 33.16
SSAA On - 32.40

AA - 4x
AF - 8x
SSAA Off - 24.75
SSAA On - 26.01

For some reason when I put AA upto 4x on the stress test I had a weird purple lighting effect on all the sand and windows. But didn't show with supersampling. Seem to be getting some strange results.

Didn't have HL2 installed so I used Lost Coast, going to load up HL2 EP1 now and see what it's like on that and see if there's any difference.
 
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wonder if the SSAA is done via software or the GPU itself is doing the work.

Test Settings

A64 3000+ at 2.6Ghz
1Gb ram
7600GT at 720/1750

Game Settings:
Resolution - 1280x1024
Model Detail - High
Texture Detail - High
Shader Detail - High
Water Detail - Reflect All
Shadow Detail - High
FSAA - 2x / 4x
FSAF - 8x throughout
vsync - Disabled
HDR - Full

Results

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2xAA w/o SSAA = 82fps
2xAA with SSAA = 84fps

4xAA w/o SSAA = 80fps
4xAA with SSAA = 78fps

best performance is at 2xAA with SSAA, which has similar IQ with 4xAA w/o SSAA
 
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Slyvester said:
Screenshots are pretty close to the fence, would I see better results standing furter away?
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Nah, it's perfect there. You can see the effect on the fence perfectly and your FPS isn't unnaturally higher due to being too close, having it zoomed out a bit and with characters on screen makes it a more realistic benchmark.

It's good to see there is absolutely no performance hit worth mentioning even on your 6600GT though.
 
a little update, they are now looking at ways of getting this to work in other driver sets :)

wonder if nvidia were actually ment to reveal this in the driver set? and if they will continue to allow it to work on the 6 series in future driver sets...
 
A good Transparancy AA effect to look out for in COD2 is to look at any of the camouflaged tarpaulin that covers any gun emplacements.

Get under the tarp & look up towards the sky. It's best if you've got a sky box with the sun shining. You can see the clouds & sun through the tarp.

Subtle but impressive!
 
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