[Liberator]

They both pertain to ATI

1. I'm playing a game an the colors are messed up slightly, I remember doing some research on this before and discovering that it is related to the pixel origin point.  Nvidia's control panel has a slider to change this, but I cannot find something similar in the ATI control panel, the only thing is a radio button that turns it on or off.  How can I change this?

2. How can I turn AA completely off?  The controls only have two settings 2x or 16x.

[Xelion]

Need to know this info.

Graphics Card?
ATI Driver?

[Thorn]

IIRC, there should be a checkbox above, or at least on the same page as the AA settings to turn it on or off.. Or was it a drop menu?
If its the drop menu, then it should give you three options. Off. Forced on. Application Controlled.
Best to leave it on the 3rd, as most newer games have AA options already.

[Liberator]

Here's a little more info:

It's a Mobility Radeon, translated to desktop version:  Radeon 7000 32 mb AGP, probably 2x

Driver Version: 6.14.10.6343

Under AA settings for D3D it has:
a check box for Application Preference
a slider with two choices 2x or 4x(currently 2x)
2 radio buttons: Performance & Quality

Anisotropic is either 16x or Application Preference, currently 16x.

Texture and Mipmaps are sliders with 4 settings:  High Performance, Performance, Quality and High Quality; currently set to high quality on both.

and compatibility settings have four radio buttons:

Support for 32-bit Z-Buffer: on or off, currently on
Alpha Dithering method: error diffusion or ordered, currently ED.
Support DXT texture formats: on or off, currently on
Alternate Pixel Center: enabled or disabled, currently enabled


Before you tell me to update the driver, it's on a Gateway notebook and ATI doesn't support the Mobility Radeon directly, instead telling you to get your driver from the manufacturer as they make certain optimizations and using the ATI driver can damage the hardware.

[Kamikaze]

[rant]
I hate that "no direct support" bull**** they pull with laptop cards. As a result there's absolutely no way to get Linux support with mobility radeons and mobility rages without using DRI (which isn't a problem with the radeon and many rages, but the rage LT is a ***** to set up). It's even worse on Windows 'cause there're no open source Windows graphics drivers.

I mean, I've had absolutely no stability/damage problems with the XFree DRI project's experimental Rage LT drivers from CVS, so why the hell can't ATI pull out something usable?
[/rant]

[Xelion]

I don't think I would have said 'update the driver'

To solve your second problem set the AA setting for D3D to 'application preference', this setting should not have any AA support which means it should be turned off. Because I don't know what the ATI interface for your graphics card looks like exactly, I'm just following what you've said and comparing it to mine. So I would also recommend selecting the 'performance setting' (underlined in blue in the pic) for the card or if you have a middle setting like the one below circled in green select that one.



Both the underlined dashes in red are quality and optimal quality which both have AA turned on

Originally posted by Liberator
Support for 32-bit Z-Buffer: on or off, currently on
Alpha Dithering method: error diffusion or ordered, currently ED.
Support DXT texture formats: on or off, currently on
Alternate Pixel Center: enabled or disabled, currently enabled

I'm not so sure on these items but on my system the APC is disabled and seeing I don't know what the hell APC does or means I went scouring at ATI and found this http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3773.html. I think you'll find it interesting.

Hope this helps solve your problem
Xelion

[Liberator]

Thanks, I'll look into it.