Anti Aliasing?

What does anti aliasing function perform?

I've had look through the forums freakwently asked questions and techniqual questions and such, but can't seem to find any info on this.

Can someone please enlighten me. What does this do.

And whats the diff. between ;none              options.

                                        ;non maskable

                                        ;2 samples

                                        ;4 sample

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Reply #1 Top

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/Graphics/anti_aliasing.shtml

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Reply #2 Top

Ok! so the more samples the better the picture. I think I get the picture. I think.

Anyways, thank you kindly for taking the time to answer my question.:thumbsup:

Reply #3 Top

If you have a slow / low graphics comp. Turn it off.

Good Comp-  Turn t up.

 

If you experience FPS Lag, (Stutter) turn it off.

 

Its just makes the game more pretty basically.

 

lol in simple terms.

Reply #4 Top

I do expiriance stop /starting at the begining of games and at the begining of loading a saved game more so, but after a few mins. everything clears up. Could it be that I have it set to high? I have it set 2 samples. Or could this be because of memory? It seems as though its still loading when the HUD first comes up on the screen. I also rarely expiriance crashes, which I thought graphics was the main cause of.

Reply #6 Top

Yes thankyou "dchan1936" has already pointed me to this. I understand what it does now.

Reply #7 Top

Anti-Ailiasing reduces the presence of "Jaggies" (Hard, jagged edges) on objects, smoothing them out.  It makes particularly rounded objects look much better. some notes, Most graphics cards have the default set to "Application controlled" if yours is set to something else, and then you turn it on in an application, you're gonna run into serious problems with framerate, so check to make sure it's either Off in game, or "Application controlled" in the settings.

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Ok! will do. thanks for the info.