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Thread: Enable Adaptive AA in the Cat 5.9 Drivers

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    Enable Adaptive AA in the Cat 5.9 Drivers

    This makes a real difference to games imo. Some may notice it others may not.
    Anyway check out these threads from other forums if you are interested

    Here

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    So this works like transparency AA on the 7800 Series cards, but for any R300+ ATi card? Omg sweet factor, I'm going to try this now... I got Omega 5.9's but that ATi Tray tool thing works wonders apparently. Many thanks

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    Ah I got it showing up in ATI Tray Tools I'm going to test a game soon (ah crud I have to redownload all the CSS updates over again due to format )

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    Think it'll be worth it. I've tried it with BF2 which looks great. But be warned it does impact on FPS but again that depends on what else you have turned on at the time. But i'd say you're looking at a 10 -15 FPS drop. And Yes that ATI Tool utility is amazing, you can even tweak the fan setting of the GPU - never realised the fan could make so much niose lol.
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    HL2 and all source games looks amazing with this turned on, damn you ATi you could have given it to us before I played HL2!

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    I don't find it all that useful. The performance drop is pretty significant (literaly cuts the speed in half (50fps or so) in some games) and in some of them games I play it casues serious Z-buffer/shadow errors.

    Maybe it is worth while for HL2, but I don't have HL2.

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