Help with vid settings

2005-09-11 16:26:01

#1

SGTJones97E: Member; +0|6835

what should i put my anti aliasing setting on and what does it do as far as in game exactly?

AMD Athlon XP 1.84gHz
ATi Radeon X800XL
2GB PC3200 DDR

the only complaint i have is sometimes vehicles in the distance will flicker or disappear. i experience 0 video lag etc after the first 5 seconds of the game where it always hiccups. i am running 1024x768 and high on every setting (except AA is turned off i think) and distance is all the way up to 100%...

2005-09-11 18:17:42

#2

*TS*tphai: The Forum Alien; +89|6805|The planet Tophet

what is anti alising ive seen it but i dont know what to put it at so i leave it alone

2005-09-11 20:38:31

#3

Stoned_Smurfz: The Mushroom Man; +1|6846|Australia

it makes the quality better smoother the more u use the better it is but its a real killer if u dont have a really good card

as for cars flickering in the distance i think thats got more to do with view distance than anything else

2005-09-11 20:41:31

#4

SGTJones97E: Member; +0|6835

so will that card handle what AA setting?

2005-09-11 20:46:21

#5

Stoned_Smurfz: The Mushroom Man; +1|6846|Australia

u should turn shadows off tho people and enemy mines/c4 are harder to see in shadows

2005-09-11 20:47:31

#6

SGTJones97E: Member; +0|6835

interesting...so what should i set AA at?

2005-09-11 20:47:52

#7

Stoned_Smurfz: The Mushroom Man; +1|6846|Australia

yeah i reckon it could handle everything up full
i recently made a system for a freind with a geforce 7800 gtx and we run everything at full at 1024x768

2005-09-12 08:17:24

#8

Faith +1: Member; +1|6814|Arizona

SGTJones97E wrote:
interesting...so what should i set AA at?

Guess his answer is on, but highest setting you can set it to.

2005-09-12 08:51:16

#9

B.Schuss: I'm back, baby... ( sort of ); +664|6841|Cologne, Germany

Athlon 3200
1 GB RAM
ATI X800XT PE

AA is at 2x ( BF2 had it turned off completely though, but that sucked ingame )

2005-09-12 09:13:07

#10

Leatherface-TCM: The Saw is Family; +0|6821

SGTJones97E wrote:
interesting...so what should i set AA at?

I have a similar system (processor is Intel), same card and same amount of RAM
The high settings don't do much for you so here is how I run
Everything at medium
distance at 95
and AA at 4
runs very smooth - keep for getting to check my fps but well over the minimum for a gret in game exp.

AA just smooths out the jagged edges - you can really see the diff. on things like wires or the arm of the crane

forgot - I am running at 1920x1200 so res is high on my system - so you should be fine (FOV is fuk'd up on mine as BF2 does not support widescreen)

Last edited by Leatherface-TCM (2005-09-12 09:14:30)

2005-09-12 11:58:22

#11

OholibaH: The Disconnected; +0|6836

If you are owner of an ATI Card turn on the Temporal Anti-Aliasing. That multiplies the Samples by the chosen multiplier. It brings you a lot of performance and it looks better than standard AA
The Catalyst AI is also useful. IT brings a lot of performance back, but it doesn't look as good as without it.

2005-09-12 16:38:32

#12

SGTJones97E: Member; +0|6835

i turned it to 6x or whatever but didnt notice a difference yet, im not sure what im looking for lol.

2005-09-14 04:08:36

#13

shaunypoo: Member; +0|6834

I'm running a;

Pentium 2.8 E
128mb Geforce 6600GT
1GB 400mhz RAM
120gb SATA HD

I run this mostly on high, but was a bit dissapointed when I found that its a little bit funny when I try and run it on full for everything! What does everyone else think? Should I be able to run it on full?

2005-09-14 15:35:14

#14

Stoned_Smurfz: The Mushroom Man; +1|6846|Australia

lol does it really matter its all a matter of personal oppinion.. AA does make it look better if u cant notice the difference then dont use it? its really up to u and ur personal preference.. find a setting that gives you a good frame rate thats all i care about nothin worse than having laggy video even if it doesnt look the best after all high quality video doesnt make u play any better proberly make u play worse lol lookin at all the pretty things

but laggy video will make u play worse...

2005-10-11 15:36:21

#15

CZE_M4CH0: Member; +0|6789|Boston,MA

how do i find in-game fps? does anyone know?

...ok, nevermind, I have found out about fraps

Last edited by CZE_M4CH0 (2005-10-11 15:46:23)

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