AA and AF?

[syringe]

i was just wondering what exactly AA and AF settings in games do to make the games better.

 

[Martin]

A picture says a thousand words:

http://www.garry.tv/img/cssource/texture-filtering.jpg (Look carefully at the ground)

http://www.richleader.com/images/Pulse/bargainbin/bargain_bin_review/anti-aliasing.png

Both are designed to improve visual quality, but of course, at the cost of performance. Most newer graphics cards can have both features enabled without too much of a performance hit however.

 

[Waphlez]

Yea, AA takes helps the "jaggies" off edges like corners and AF makes the ground look better by reducing the "smudged" textures when looking at it at a low angle. There are multiple levels of AA and AF, AA goes like 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, and more I think if you have SLI, but 4x looks fine IMO. AF can go to 16x, and if you have an ATI X1800/X1900 you can enable HQAF.

 

[Dr.Gootch]

oh wow!!! that is awesome i never knew!