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Old 08-23-09   #1 (permalink)
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This is part three of a trilogy of articles investigating current AA techniques on modern hardware. In part one I compared the image quality of ATi’s and nVidia’s latest hardware. In part two ATi’s 4000 series was covered in more detail. Now with part three I’ll focus on nVidia’s GT200 series, whose anti-aliasing algorithms are identical to that of the 8000 and 9000 series. For this particular article I’ll use my GTX285.
While the purpose of this article is to compare nVidia’s AA modes to each other, great care has been taken to make the article’s format compatible with the ATi 4000 series investigation. That means you can compare the two articles if you wish, including the screenshots.
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  • nVidia GeForce GTX285 (1 GB, reference clocks).
  • 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4×1 GB, dual-channel).
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  • nVidia driver 186.18, high quality filtering, all optimizations off, LOD clamp enabled.
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  • All games patched to their latest versions.

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  • AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.
  • Since I’m on XP, all DX10 titles were run under DX9 render paths.
  • Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
  • All results show an average framerate.
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Impressive article.
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Unimpressed am I with his testing hardware or the methods.

He seriously should pick up a copy of Vista, and run those games under heavy AA in DX10.

It's a waste to test old methods that are quickly going out of style. If not even used any more.
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Seriously he's still using XP?
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  • nVidia driver 186.18,
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Unimpressed am I with his testing hardware or the methods.

He seriously should pick up a copy of Vista, and run those games under heavy AA in DX10.

It's a waste to test old methods that are quickly going out of style. If not even used any more.
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The article has some good ideas and was impressive; but, some of the techniques/specs should have been done differently.
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I guess this article is useful for the dinosaurs who refuse to upgrade from XP

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Are you people suggesting that AA in DX9 is somehow different from AA in DX10? Or are you saying that the performance is somehow effected different in Vista SO differently as to make this totally irrelevant? You people are starting to scare me.
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