Anti aliasing

[Valen]

What is the difference between multi sampling, adaptive multi sampling, and super sampling? and which one will look the best?

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[Bisjac]

one of em is made to only work in full screen resolution, while another one is an option to ignore some pixels for lower memory video cards, where it may not be visable. and other one is the normal AA + some transparency options with edge pixels.

but i forget what one is what.

[Valen]

If only I knew which was which, thanks though.

[Tom Gunn]

supersampling aa provides the best image quality, however, it also requires the most gpu processing power and may cause a significant reduction in frame rate. iirc, its only supported in dx9?

multisample aa provides the lowest image quality (better than no aa), but also requires the least gpu processing power, hence the smallest frame rate drop, should be supported in dx9, dx10 and dx11.

Doez help?

[Valen]

Yes thank you kind sir.

[RedSaturn]

That helps Tomm, thanks.