[SLICK2K6]

Freespace 2 would look so much better with anti aliasing. Is there a build that supports it? Is it even possible to implement?

[666maslo666]

You can force it in your vga driver for now, btw its a good idea to put it in the Launcher like anisotropic filtering..

[Admiral Nelson]

taylor has mentioned this will come in 3.7.  For now, it can be achieved through the driver, as 666maslo666 points out.

[neoterran]

lol, you guys are playing without AA ? Crank it up in your driver panel man, jeez. And crank up with AF too, AF makes a bigger difference.

[SLICK2K6]

OMG!!! I am so stupid. I never thought of that! Well thanks..... :

[Bob-san]

nVidia's control panel or Catalyst by Radeon will allow you to force AA and AF... I run the game's AF at 2x and I have AA turned to 1x (some games of mine complain way too much, such as The Sims 2).

[Huggybaby]

Use the NGO Drivers with the tray tools if you haven't.

And clean up first.

Tweak on!

[CP5670]

Turn the AF all the way up to 16x. Most video cards from the last four years (everything except the FX line) take barely any performance hit from AF, so you might as well.

[Huggybaby]

CP5670, that's exactly what  I need to know HERE.

[Harbinger of DOOM]

How do you force AA with a Mac?

[Vasudan Commander]

You dont. Forcing AA'ing with games that dont support it is dangerous. Forcing a Mac to do something it shouldnt be doing is even more dangerous.

Being a PC techie, i have come across many a tech wanna-be who has made his PC do something it shouldnt be doing, and something or other exceeded its limits and burnt out, and forced the whole pc to be scrapped, or, a costly repair bill.

Unless you are absolutely 500% sure you know what you're doing, DONT DO IT.

[taylor]

How do you force AA with a Mac?

Supposedly there is an ATI panel to do this, but only for ATI cards, and only for PPC Macs as far as I know.  You can find more info about that here.  If you don't have an ATI card, or have an Intel Mac, then perhaps this is your only fallback.  It's rather dumb as far as a proceedure goes, but it will do the job.

In any case, you are probably better off waiting for the game to support FSAA natively.  It's not at all difficult to do, just not very high on the todo list yet.  I'll get to it in another month or two though.

Forcing AA'ing with games that dont support it is dangerous. Forcing a Mac to do something it shouldnt be doing is even more dangerous.

That's just dumb on both counts.  Forcing AA is not at all dangerous.  At the most you'll just run out of video memory, or have the occasional rendering issue with some apps.

[CP5670]

You dont. Forcing AA'ing with games that dont support it is dangerous. Forcing a Mac to do something it shouldnt be doing is even more dangerous.

Being a PC techie, i have come across many a tech wanna-be who has made his PC do something it shouldnt be doing, and something or other exceeded its limits and burnt out, and forced the whole pc to be scrapped, or, a costly repair bill.

Unless you are absolutely 500% sure you know what you're doing, DONT DO IT.

What on earth are you talking about?

CP5670, that's exactly what  I need to know HERE.

I happened to post in there a few days ago, before I came across this.

[Herra Tohtori]

By the way.

Why can I set 16x AA when I run (K)Ubuntu but "only" 8Sx on Windows NVidia control panel?

FS_Open gives rather playable FPS on both counts in most cases, by the way...

[CP5670]

You can't do it through the control panel for some reason; it's sort of a hidden feature. Get nHancer to activate that and the other AA modes.

[neoterran]

You dont. Forcing AA'ing with games that dont support it is dangerous. Forcing a Mac to do something it shouldnt be doing is even more dangerous.

Being a PC techie, i have come across many a tech wanna-be who has made his PC do something it shouldnt be doing, and something or other exceeded its limits and burnt out, and forced the whole pc to be scrapped, or, a costly repair bill.

Unless you are absolutely 500% sure you know what you're doing, DONT DO IT.

500 percent is not possible. percent means per cent or per 100, so 100 is the largest figure that can be used with the % symbol.

[castor]

Unless you are absolutely 500% sure you know what you're doing, DONT DO IT.

[Turey]

500 percent is not possible. percent means per cent or per 100, so 100 is the largest figure that can be used with the % symbol.

Lies. 500% = 96%

if the variable holding the percentage is limited to 0-100, you'd get:
0
1
2
3
.
.
.
99
100
0 (101) // Variable spills over here.
1 (102)
2 (103)
.
.
.
98 (199)
99 (200)
100 (201)
0 (202)
1 (203)
2 (204)
3 (205)
.
.
.
97 (299)
98 (300)
99 (301)
100 (302)
0 (303)
1 (304)
2 (305)
3 (306)
.
.
.
96 (399)
97 (400)
98 (401)
99 (402)
100 (403)
0 (404)
1 (405)
2 (406)
3 (407)
.
.
.
95 (499)
96 (500)


[/endworthlesspost]

You wanted to nitpick, I will too.

Also, I can do 500 / 100, which is what 500% means. (% = /100)

[spartan_0214]

You can have five hundred percent. What is 500 of 1? 500%

Cent is a varible...

[neoterran]

okay, if you guys want to side with a guy that thinks you can damage your computer from turning on AA in the drivers, that's fine by me .