Computer confused question..

[Dweedle]

My computer runs Skyrim flawlessly with something called Anti Aliasing turned off... looking at my game I cant see what it has actually done

 

Same goes for Dragon age 2, I was told it "would NOT run" yet it runs fine with the same thing turned off.

 

is there any signifigent noticable change that anti aliasing does? I heard it makes objects look less square but... I really cant notice it.

 

just wondering what anti aliasing is, ive googled it but again, it says it makes things less square but on my system I just cant notice any change.

[hoofhearted4]

thats really what it does. it rounds out edges and makes things smoother.

 

 

take a look around 2:18. this is what its like without AA. however thats on a console. on a PC, with a good GPU, that will be minimized to begin with, and with AA turned on, you might not notice the different. but that is what it is right there.

[Vagrant0]

In my book, AA usage usually depends on what resolution the game plays in and how various game components are rendered compared with what sort of "natural" resolution works well for your monitor. It also depends on what kind of game it is and if noticing a single black pixel on the distance is a matter of life and death.

 

Generally I either have it off or on 2x since hard pixel edges don't really bother me and my monitor is small enough to where I wouldn't normally see them unless I was playing at a low resolution, or was taking the effort to really look. Most modern games also end up having some sort of post processing blur effect which tends to make any hard edges negligible unless they are close to the camera.

 

Depending on your card and setup, AA can cause some minor loss of frame rate, lead to excessive texture bluring, or lead to crash issues if you have it being set by both the driver settings and the ingame settings, so it's usually best to just have it managed by the driver software and turn it off in any games.

[Dweedle]

well i havnt really got a gaming laptop just one of those ones you get when you go into a store to buy one, at the moment, i am surprised some people are fussy over small things like edge smoothing but each to their own lol.

 

im just pleasantly surprised i can run my games on high quality detail and high resoloutions with little to no framerate issues, its fantastic much more funner than playin them on xbox lol

 

I also do not know what my driver settings are, how would I access them? I think I have AMD or ATI or something like that

Edited September 12, 2012 by Dweedle

[3gamad]

I run mostly all new games on my non-gaming laptop too. But, same as you, I have to cope with low resolution and low FPS count, but I think it's still better than nothing. :D

 

You can try looking in the control panel for your graphic card settings, or find "devmgmt.msc" through the start->search option if on Win7, or start->run if on older.

Edited September 22, 2012 by 3gamad