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Name: n8mayes
Date: March 30, 2009 at 15:12:07 Pacific
OS: Windows Vista
Subcategory: General
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what does it mean when i search for video cards with 1280x1024 0xAA, Trilinear compared to 1280x1024, 4xAA, 8xAF? Does it reflect on the computer and processor instead of the video card?



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Name: jam
Date: March 30, 2009 at 16:17:50 Pacific
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Those are the display settings for the game (or benchmark) being used for testing purposes.

- the 1st is the screen resolution setting

- the 2nd (AA ) is Anti-Aliasing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-a...

- the 3rd (AF) is Anisotropic Filtering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisot...

When gaming with lower end cards, it's usually necessary to set a lower screen resolution such as 800x600 or 1024x768 & to disable AA & AF to be able to get playable framerates.

Higher end cards are able to get playable framerates at higher screen resolutions with AA & AF enabled.

30FPS is generally considered the minimum framerate to be considered "playable". Lower than that & the game begins to look more like a slideshow.


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