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Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: Nomak on December 21, 2006, 08:37:03 PM

Here are some AH screen shots.  I believe what I am seeing here is  called "Tearing"  I am not sure though.  I put a few aarows in the pics to highlight what I am talking about.  Not that they are needed.

This happens in more than just AH.  Any flight sim I load up does this.  It has done it before and after a reformat (the reformat wasnt done to fix this) it has also done it with different video drivers.

Would a posting a dxdiag help?

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g164/aa255/ahss5.jpg)

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g164/aa255/ahss2.jpg)

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g164/aa255/ahss0.jpg)

Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: 2bighorn on December 21, 2006, 08:57:50 PM

Can't see any tearing. If you mean jagged edges, looks like your AA is turned off.

Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: Nomak on December 21, 2006, 09:25:26 PM

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Originally posted by 2bighorn
Can't see any tearing. If you mean jagged edges, looks like your AA is turned off.

I turned up antilasting and antiscop filtering.  That did seem to fix it.  Is that what you meant by AA?

Thx for the help BTW ;)

Dave

Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: Rolex on December 21, 2006, 09:29:11 PM

Anisotropic filtering is not supported so only anti-aliasing will smooth out those edges.

Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: 2bighorn on December 21, 2006, 10:12:13 PM

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Originally posted by Nomak
I turned up antilasting and antiscop filtering.  That did seem to fix it.  Is that what you meant by AA?

Thx for the help BTW ;)

Dave

Ahh, sorry for not being clear, yes, AA is short for Anti-Aliasing.

Title: Can this be fixed? Is this "tearing" help pls
Post by: Schutt on December 22, 2006, 08:32:10 AM

Tearing is when your graphic card calculates a new frame while drawing the old one and mid way through drawing the old one continues drawing with the new one, it will give you one (or two) BIG jumps on any object running through the tear, like if you tear a paper and put it together moving one part 3 cm.

This does not happen when vsync is on, since vsync synchronizes the frame changes with the redraw on the monitor, so you dont get part old frame part new frame.

Anti Alialising will transfer the pixels along a angled line with high contrast into a series of pixels with intermediate colors, by that tricking the eye so it looks smooth. Thats what you want, but it costs some power on the graphic board so if you switch on 8x AA your frame rate probably goes down noticeable.