Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

FAA is freakin' crazy

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • #1

    FAA is freakin' crazy

    I installed all of my games on the new machine a few days ago and today. All I have to say is "wow" the image quality is sooooooooooooo good its unbearable. You HAVE to see it to appreciate it. And before you say its not worth the money I'd really take a peek at a game like Quake 3, Jedi Knight 2, RTCW, MOHAA or most any other game with FAA on. Its THAT damn good.
    My "Baby": Shuttle SS51G, P4@2.26 Ghz 533 FSB, 80 GB Western Digital Caviar "Special Edition" Hard Drive 7,200 RPM w/8 MB Cache, 512 MB Corsair PC2700 with Heat Spreaders, Pioneer DVD Drive (w/sexy slot load ), and of course a Matrox Parhelia Retail Vid Card
    Tags: None
  • #2
    I totally agree! The only downside is that it doesn't work that well on some games

    If somebody says that 16xFAA doesn't look good, then I would suggest him to see it in real action, and not just look on some screenshots. You can rate AA only in real action and not on screenies, at least that is my opinion, when I got my V5 5500, I wasn't that excited about FSAA, but when I actually saw it in movement I said "wow!"
    Specs:
    MSI 745 Ultra :: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ :: 1024 MB PC-266 DDR-RAM :: HIS Radeon 9700 (Catalyst 3.1) :: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 :: Pioneer DVD-106S :: Western Digital WD800BB :: IBM IC35L040AVVN07

    Comment

    • #3
      For a quick instance on FAAx16. Jedi Knight 2... I played it almost fully through with FAA on, and WOW it looked sweet, then I got to the Jungle level where FAA will make it look like there is a wire frame everywhere... so I turned it off and it suddenly looked like crap (though at least the fog effects worked properly) I turned it back on as soon as I passed that level. FAA Rocks.

      Leech
      Wah! Wah!

      In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

      Comment

      • #4
        Leech, could you please look at my "Really bad performance" thread in the gaming forums? I posted something about JK2 there, and I would like to know how it performs on other systems.
        Specs:
        MSI 745 Ultra :: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ :: 1024 MB PC-266 DDR-RAM :: HIS Radeon 9700 (Catalyst 3.1) :: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 :: Pioneer DVD-106S :: Western Digital WD800BB :: IBM IC35L040AVVN07

        Comment

        • #5
          JK2 ran pretty nice on mine, around 30-40fps all the way through. That's with FAA on and AF off. I'm downloading the Half-life patch now to see how that runs (Damn 82mb for a freakin' Patch?) You were running Half-life in OpenGL, right? I'll try it out there. I have noticed that the Parhelia's drivers aren't fully optimized in the OpenGL department. I posted something about this using the Vulpine engine benchmark (I got about 10fps)

          Leech
          Wah! Wah!

          In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

          Comment

          • #6
            That was lovely. I ran Half-life in OpenGL after updating it to the newest version and...... boom, it gave me a BSOD then when I restarted the computer scandisk went through all the way.... but then stopped at the end and wouldn't load windows after that.... Very odd behavior I'd say. Other than that it ran pretty smooth.

            Leech
            Wah! Wah!

            In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

            Comment

            Previous template Next
            Working...
            X