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Feb 23^rd, 2004 at 5:40pm

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I recently upgraded to a GeForce FX 5900 128mb from a GeForce 4 TI 4200 128mb video card but the anti aliasing seems to be very bad when using FS2K4 I’ve tried to turn it on and of in the simulator options and always keeping it on at 8x in the NVIDIA driver configuration an the result is always the same. I’m using the latest driver provided by the manufacturer (MSI). What should I do?

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Reply #1 - Feb 23^rd, 2004 at 5:46pm

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Almost forgot the screenshot is 1280x1024x32 with 8x AA.

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Reply #2 - Feb 23^rd, 2004 at 9:59pm

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From those screen shots, it doesn't look like the antialiasing is working at all!

Don't use the antialiasing option in the sim. Turn it off.

MSI don't make the video driver, they probably supplied you with an outdated one.
Go to nvidia.com or guru3d.com and get a decent driver, Forceware (Detonator) 53.03 or 53.06

Set the antialiasing to 4x or 4Sx in the driver settings. Not 8x!

I your frame rates slow down, drop your game screen resolution down, but not under 1024x768x32. I would run the FX5900 at 1152x864x32 resolution.

See how that works.

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Reply #3 - Feb 23^rd, 2004 at 10:55pm

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Thanks for the help Congo

The AA is off in the FS menu. I’m using Detonator 52.14 supplied by MSI; it’s pretty much the same from NVIDIA but with MSI dynamic overclocking feature.
So I went to the simple stuff first and presto it worked. I changed it to 4Sx and its working again, but big FPS hit I guess I'm going to use the resolution you suggested as it’s the same as my desktop.

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Reply #4 - Feb 24^th, 2004 at 1:30am

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That looks a lot better!

AA really hits hard on the high resolutions with nvidia cards.

I didn't realise MSI were modifying the drivers. And the 52 series isn't that old at all.

The new Direct X 9.1 should be out soon, maybe that will improve things as well.

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Reply #5 - Feb 25^th, 2004 at 7:33pm

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Use graphics card driver from the mfgr as different mfgrs do mod the card and have slightly different drivers.
4x should do the trick. Good to turn off app anti-aliasing.

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Reply #6 - Feb 26^th, 2004 at 10:43am

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looking better.. Wink

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