Originally posted by Nic
I recently bought both Radeon 9800 Pro (for my main pc) and a Radeon 9600 Pro (for my second pc) and they are both great cards.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with FSAA, as so far I haven't noticed much difference in games I've tried (MDK2 and System Shock 2). There is a small improvement in image quality when nothing is moving, as then you have time to look at the aliasing artifacts on object boundaries, but during normal gameplay, where the object boundaries are constantly moving, its difficult to notice much difference.
The worst part of enabling FSAA is that you lose around 30% in performance and things don't look that much better. In fact its hard to notice any improvement, as only object boundaries are affected, and texture maps remain unchanged (or at least I couldn't detect any difference). The resolution you play at seems to have more of an impact on image quality than does FSAA, or at least that has been my experience so far.
Has anyone else here had similar experience of FSAA? Please let us know your opinion.
PreservedSwine: I don't know of anyone that has ditched their 5900U cards in favour of 9800 Pro cards. They'd loose too much money for a start, and the image quality difference would be barely perceptable.
Originally posted by Nic
Do you suppose that trilinear filtering is enough for a smooth image. That's what I use in MDK2, and I didn't notice much difference between enabling FSAA (4x) with AF (8x), and without, but my frame rate for 9600 Pro dropped from 110 fps to 82 fps. I only noticed a small improvement in edge smoothness, but nothing significant. I'll try out some other games once I've finished rebuilding my PC and report back then. Thanks for the additional info PreservedSwine, I'll take a look later.
I just looked at your profile, and you are a football fan. Strangely, I actually suspected that when reading your posts.Originally posted by rory1
I am rmwc boys, just i caused a lot of trouble in other forums and got kicked, but ive undergone a reneisance and im a new man, but i still hate AMD
--agissi--: rory1 IS rmrc ! They are the same person.Originally posted by ---agissi---
i've always been gforce however if ATi's products stay ahead of NVidias like they have been, I think I'll be making a transition.
btw, thanks for banning that rmrc guy....all he did was flame people, and start threads like "intel vs amd" or this thread.....its like come'on, he just registered and wants to start something up - when he knows this has probbly been disscussed a million times aready.
sorry for going a bit off topic here.