HomeBoy I was referring to settings for the 7950 series which has fewer card settings then the later cards. Antialiasing - Mode for instance does not exist. Does your Antialiasing - Supersampling actually do anything? Does not on 7950 if I recall correctly.
I honestly don't know if Supersampling or Multisampling do anything or not. If they do, it's subtle and perhaps I'm not testing the right way, or looking at the right things, etc. That's one of the reasons I was hoping Skuzzy would chime in here and put a definitive stamp on this. It's like when I go to the eye doctor and he says "which of these looks better... A or B? Ok, here's A. Ok, here's B!" After a while I just want to say "I don't care anymore, just give me the glasses, I'm tired and weary!"
I dont think mipmaps does anything for AH either. Triple buffering the same.
Now, are you saying that because you have inside info on the game or is that purely empirical? [...insert my comments about Supersampling here...]
As for antialiasing the 4x will help depending on your resolution and monitor. When I play on the 47" Toshiba at home it doesnt matter but on the 19" Envision at work I cant see dots through clouds at all or beyond 8k regardless. With the new(er) haze NOE cons are invisible and sometimes so is any fleet.
I have a 24" LCD (1920x1200) which I run at 1600x1200 in AH. I have tried all the AA settings and again, maybe I'm just too much of a dork to see anything. 4X looks just as good to me as 16X. So, just out of fatigue really, I decided just to leave it at 4X and the game really does look beautiful. I really don't think it could look any better.
I'll tell you one setting that really did make a big difference with respect to the "tingling terrain" was "Texture Filtering LOD bias." I had it set to "Clamp" because that was the setting recommended for FSX. When I set it to "Allow", the "tingling" went away (you could see it mostly in those dark green patches where the pine trees are) and the vertical stab of my plane no longer has the jaggies on it like before. That setting had much more effect than any AA setting. Go figure.
I don't know, maybe there is more tweaking that could be done but I am pretty darn pleased with how this thing looks now. It's like I turned the focus knob and brought the display into a little sharper focus. I'm going to stick with these settings I think.
Now I'm off to do the same tuning with FSX.
