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Antialiasing has not effect and text (subtitle letters) is in boxes
Hi all,

already posted a bug report with Mantis at http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=2435#bugnotes but thought of giving it a go here as well in case someone knows of a workaround.

Basically, text has border blocks (assuming from bitmap stretching) and settings in launcher have no effect on antialiasing.

Screenshot you can see from mantis bug report.


Note that I can enable antialiasing via nvidia control panel.

Thanks

George

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Antialiasing has not effect and text (subtitle letters) is in boxes
Yes. The antialiasing setting in the Launcher doesn't actually do anything.
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Re: Antialiasing has not effect and text (subtitle letters) is in boxes
I've also heard about post-processing and bloom tended to bork AA, even when forced through the control panel.

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Re: Antialiasing has not effect and text (subtitle letters) is in boxes

The boxes are an artifact of running wide-screen with a fixed-width BMP font that doesn't have adaptive scaling, so what you are seeing is the border of the letter blocks that comprises the Retail font, as it's not Open or True type. There should be a launcher option called "Fix Font Distortion" that should help with that.
(Note: You may need to "Run As Administrator" depending on system variables for it to "stick")

As for Anti-aliasing in general, for Windows, the launcher does not set AA. And depending on what card/drivers you have, setting AA with Post Processing will have mixed results. I generally set to Enhance Application Settings, other have better results with Override, just basically fiddle around with them until it looks as good as it will get.

And depending on the resolution, at a certain point, higher numbers in AA are just a waste of extravagance. 8x, 8xQ or 8xS is a decent start, but anything past 16 is just wasted stress on your vid card.


Edit: When an issue is closed on Mantis after being replied to on the forums, it's better to reply in the forums rather than re-opening the issue and arguing with a developer. Just saying.
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