Do you use AA/AF, both, or none?

Do you use aa/af?

  • Anti Aliasing

    Votes: 90 84.1%

  • Anisotropic Filtering

    Votes: 91 85.0%

  • Trilinear / Bilinear

    Votes: 28 26.2%

  • My computer is so old it doesn't allow either

    Votes: 8 7.5%
  • Total voters
    107
I use 4x AA and 8x AF in BF2 @ 1280x1024 (native), cannot play the game without it! :)

I get on average 70FPS.
 
My TFT (Viewsonic VX924) native res 1280X1024 @ max TSAA/SS/AF, etc. My 512Meg 7800GTX is a little overkill, but I get all the eye candy I can handle.
 
4XAA/16XAF@1600x1200 if i can get decent frame rates, down to 2X if i can't, then down to 2X/16X@1280x960 if it's still not playable.
 
4xAdaptive AA /16hq af, I'm gaming on an 2405, if i have to play in a small square on the middle of the screen i take that before jaggies. I miss my old crt :(
 
My laptop doesn't support AF or AA. :p I play games on it sometimes and it doesn't look horrible or great.

The desktop has 3 cases:
1) most games I have play fine at 1600x1200 with 8xAF or 16xAF and 4xAA
2) FEAR plays fine at 1600x1200 with 16xAF, no AA, no soft shadows, everything else maxed.
3) Far Cry, the only game I have supporting FP16 HDR, can't have AA enabled on the 7800, but 1600x1200 with HDR enabled plays acceptably.

It's not a big deal to me if I can't run very few games with AA enabled. AA looks better, but it doesn't really affect the gaming experience for me. Running at higher resolution (1600x1200) is more important to me than always having AA enabled.
 
I try to use as much as possible of both AA and AF. Doesn't always work out that way, but usually I'd rather drop to 12x10 from 16x12 and enable AA+AF.
 
I like having really high frame rates, so I've rarely used any AA in the past, even though I've always had cutting edge / high end systems.

But lately since I've gotten the 7800GT, I've had some spare horsepower so I've been using 4xAA.

The old 50fps average / 30 fps min doesnt cut it for me.
I'd rather a few jaggies at 100+fps average w/ 60 fps as my min.
 
chrisf6969 said:
I like having really high frame rates, so I've rarely used any AA in the past, even though I've always had cutting edge / high end systems.

But lately since I've gotten the 7800GT, I've had some spare horsepower so I've been using 4xAA.

The old 50fps average / 30 fps min doesnt cut it for me.
I'd rather a few jaggies at 100+fps average w/ 60 fps as my min.
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That about sums up my answer as well. Never used it before 'cuz the performance hit was too big, now I get smooth AND pretty.

 
4xAA, 16xAF, usually Trilinear to boot. As long as FPS stays above 20-25 I'm good. After years of dealing with 5-10 FPS on my old Pentium Pro I'm pretty insensitive to lower frame minimums, so I can crank it up higher or upgrade my machine less often.
 
Due to my 6800NU running at 1600x1200 (native res) you can guess that there's no AA/AF going on in my games. theres not point in lowering the res just to get AA/AF cause the image at 1280x1040 just sucks in comparison.
 
My Dell 2005FPW is native @ 1680x1050 - the only thing I play at home is BF2 and my 7800GT allows me 2X AA at native resolution while keeping playability. So yeah, AA and AF for me. Need another 7800GT when I can find one cheap so I can go to 4X TRMSAA.
 
AA and AF. usually 4xAA 16xAF, i will more than likely drop the resolution before dropping the aa and af.
 
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