No AA in Flight Simulator 2002 with the P card?

[kelleym]

I suppose we'll know a lot more in a few hours, but I noticed one very interesting thing about the samples posted on the Matrox site "showing off" Flight Simulator 2002.

They show definite jaggies on all aspects of the image, and at first I thought this was due to the resolution (and maybe it still is) but I went into FS and changed my resolution low enough to get the same jaggies. THEN I turned on AA on my nVidia card.

Guess what? The jaggies went away, and the image looked about twice as good as the one posted on the Matrox site.

I thought the P card was supposed to have AA, some sort of super duper AA. Could it be possible they would not have turned it on for these screen shots? That seems a little preposterous, as they are trying to show off the card in the best light.

I'm beginning to think perhaps that German review was right...

[Rags]

Re: No AA in Flight Simulator 2002 with the P card?

Originally posted by kelleym
I suppose we'll know a lot more in a few hours, but I noticed one very interesting thing about the samples posted on the Matrox site "showing off" Flight Simulator 2002.

They show definite jaggies on all aspects of the image, and at first I thought this was due to the resolution (and maybe it still is) but I went into FS and changed my resolution low enough to get the same jaggies. THEN I turned on AA on my nVidia card.

Guess what? The jaggies went away, and the image looked about twice as good as the one posted on the Matrox site.

I thought the P card was supposed to have AA, some sort of super duper AA. Could it be possible they would not have turned it on for these screen shots? That seems a little preposterous, as they are trying to show off the card in the best light.

I'm beginning to think perhaps that German review was right...

Begin to think what you want. I am not here to argue what your opinion or what you think is.

I have the card in my machine, I have been running for some time now, and if you want to argue with what I KNOW, you will lose.

Rags

[kelleym]

Yeah, but Rags you sounded just like a politician -- that is, you talked without saying anything.

Are you inferring you're running FS on multiple monitors and it doesn't have those jaggies? Can you post screen shots? (Or not until tomorrow? I'm really confused about this, as some shots from other games have already been posted).

If all you're saying is that FS runs great on a single monitor in your setup on the P board, that doesn't clear anything up. There are a whole LOT of cards that can run FS great on a single monitor, and most cost less than the P.

But please tell me I'm wrong. Please, please, please, please, please.

[Rags]

Originally posted by kelleym
Yeah, but Rags you sounded just like a politician -- that is, you talked without saying anything.

Are you inferring you're running FS on multiple monitors and it doesn't have those jaggies? Can you post screen shots? (Or not until tomorrow? I'm really confused about this, as some shots from other games have already been posted).

If all you're saying is that FS runs great on a single monitor in your setup on the P board, that doesn't clear anything up. There are a whole LOT of cards that can run FS great on a single monitor, and most cost less than the P.

But please tell me I'm wrong. Please, please, please, please, please.

I run FS2K2 with FAA on and it works beautiful. The shimmering textures are gone, and the jaggies on triangles are gone.


I don't sound like a politician, I was just responding to your little rant, which had no specific question or content. It was all conjecture and innuendo. Those things don't fly around here.

Rags

[kelleym]

Originally posted by Rags
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I run FS2K2 with FAA on and it works beautiful. The shimmering textures are gone, and the jaggies on triangles are gone.

ON MORE THAN ONE MONITOR?

That's the question. Maybe I just didn't make myself clear. Let me state: the screen shots on the Matrox site show FS in multiple monitors with jaggies. This isn't conjecture, it isn't innuendo, it's fact. When I run the same setup on my (single) monitor, I don't get this.

All I was trying to say (and perhaps I really wasn't clear in my first post) is it doesn't look like the P board does AA when running FS on multiple monitors. If it does, it was remarkably shortsighted of Matrox not to show that in their posted screen shots. Since I'd rather believe a company wasn't that stupid, I believed it was a limitation of the board.

Am I wrong? Please tell me I am (and you'll make a friend for life)

[Rags]

Originally posted by kelleym


ON MORE THAN ONE MONITOR?

That's the question. Maybe I just didn't make myself clear. Let me state: the screen shots on the Matrox site show FS in multiple monitors with jaggies. This isn't conjecture, it isn't innuendo, it's fact. When I run the same setup on my (single) monitor, I don't get this.

All I was trying to say (and perhaps I really wasn't clear in my first post) is it doesn't look like the P board does AA when running FS on multiple monitors. If it does, it was remarkably shortsighted of Matrox not to show that in their posted screen shots. Since I'd rather believe a company wasn't that stupid, I believed it was a limitation of the board.

Am I wrong? Please tell me I am (and you'll make a friend for life)

*sigh* I already answered you, what more do you want?????

Your assumptions ARE conjecture and innuendo because you are taking a screenshot seen on their site and ASSUMING.

Rags

[kelleym]

Okay, I'm guessing you've answered me. Thanks (darn @#$@#$ NDA -- but let me only hope that in a week or two there will be more (better?) screen shots available).

[Ant]

Any chance for more screenies from this from anyone?