Command & Conquer 3 AA Setting Question!

use google , its to complicated to explain , but basically the higher the no better it looks and lower the performance , although be warned any high then 8x and your graphic card will eject itself and the company would want a refund .

flame me now i am ready *takes out his uzi yeaa*

Okay buddy i am feeling a little sorry for you so i am going to help you out by giving you some links

http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/A [...] sing.shtml

see this link it will sort things out

lol interesting

i only get 3 levels myself...so why you get 8 is a bit of a mystery...

If you understand what AA is, then I don't see what your question is.

Are you asking what 2x, 4x etc refer to? Or why more AA options opened up for you?

2x, 4x etc, refer to the amount of samples taken to apply to the image and generate the anti-aliasing effect. Higher end graphic cards can do higher levels of AA then low end ones. Bigger number= more samples and theoretically a better effect, although at a certain point your eye will have a hard time telling the difference. Your gpu however will most certainly notice the difference since the more samples it has to take the harder it has to work, thus slowing down the amount of frames it can generate per second.

As I said, at a certain point you won't notice any visual difference by making the AA any higher. Where that point is depends alot on the game, what monitor you have and mostly on the person playing it. You just have to find a balance between how good you think it looks vs how big oof a fps hit you are willing to take. It's a very subjective thing.

If you're wondering why more AA options showed up, C+C auto-detects your system hardware and sets itself up accordingly. I only have 4 levels available in-game (if you include off as a setting) with my x800xt, but it's possible if it detects your gpu is capable of more AA it will open up more options.

No No No No No No...
My ONLY question is why with my Previews X1900XTX (and you can see as someone above said) the game only has 3 Level(same about my Friend with a 7600GT), then by upgrading to 8800GTS the game showed 5 level of AA & now with the Forceware 158.19 the game shows 8 level of AntiAliasing??...does it mean that Updating driver adds more AA Sampling??
Damn it guys...I'm talking about Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars not the AntiAliasing itself...The only person that get the point is blade85.
aaaaaaaaaa...you are making me angry. I don't think you would like me when i get angry! (it's Hulk, just kidding!)

Exactly!
Ah, thank god...

To clearify his question for anyone that doesn't understand:

In the game's video settings, there are options for AA. Initially, he had only 3 choices under the AA option: Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Upon changing out his video card, he went back into the in-game options, and under AA he found two more choices, Level 4 and Level 5. He then upgraded his driver, and went back into that same option screen and found 3 more new choices under AA: Level 6, Level 7 and Level 8. His question is, why would it open up new choices after a video card upgrade and a driver update? And also, if each level coincides with an AA multiplier, would that mean that Level 7 is 64x AA, Level 8 is 128x AA?

Correct me if I'm wrong on any of that.

I dont have an 8800 GTX, but i doubt they are going to be able to support 128xAA.. and even if they could, u cant run a game at 0.0001 FPS.

My guess is that it's a driver/game bug. I'm guessing that Level's 6,7&8 are probably actually the same as Level's 3,4&5. I've never heard of AA being as high as 128x.

I don't think so, because up to Level 5, i see no difference in FPS but at Level 8 i see some FPS drop... :?
Hmmm, well if you really want to figure this out, you could always take screenshots of the same thing at each of the levels, then compare and see if you can find any similarities between levels.

I had to, you've got Eddie as your AV.

The reason you get 8 levels of aa is because the g80 chip supports 8 levels of aa.

The ati cards only support maximum of 6 levels of aa.

Also man be a little more precise with your questions .

Perhaps the addeds settings enable Supersampling or Transparency AA. I'm positive they don't exponentially increase the AA level.

Can you show me a link that supports your statement that the G80 supports 8 levels of AA? I'm interested, I've never seen this.

Ignore my post i misunderstood the question , i thought he was talking about supporting 8aa level not 128aa 8O 8O

sorry my fault

maybe i can help....
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4x
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.....that is....what for it.... 8 LEVELS OF AA! GO FIGURE!


seriously people look in the Nvidia menu, i have an 8800GTX and knew this before hand... i think you all need to read more....and no not those playboy magazines with the articles on internet ermmm.....

OK Guys, i took some pictures very fast , so sorry if the pictures are not good enough!
First, here is an image of current Graphics Options:

With previews driver (Forceware 97.94 i think) there only 5 Levels of AA Detail like Shader Detail.
here is the game at Level 1:

here is the Level 3(Max Level with my Previews X1900XTX):

Sorry about the lighting, that is because of Clouds movement!
here is the Level 5Max Level with previews driver)

and finally here is the Level 8:

as you can see there is no FPS drop in these pictures but here is an another picture in Level 8 that shows some FPS drop:

OK,what do you think now?

lol thats cool. and uhhh...i have no idea im pretty happy with just 3 levels

Usual levels of AA are 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X and 16X. I've never heard of other settings. That makes 5 different levels of AA and I think both cards support them.

To the OP: I think the game looks already very good at level 1. So stop wondering and go play the damn game!

LOL, that is too funny!

If you are desperate to find out, you could check the readme's from both the game and those new NV drivers. There may be under list of fixes in the nV drivers, something mentioning FSAA in C&C3. It's a longshot though.

I know I have struck out in the past when trying to find similar info in other games. It seems you need to be part of the press and then get the gaming company to anwer such questions.

Oh well, game on. I am embarrassed to say that I stayed up til 3:00 AM last night putting 3.5 hours into that Sarajevo mission. I guess I could have been much quicker just grabbing a ton of mammoth tanks and attacking, but I enjoyed starting a base at each tiberium field and toying with the newly available weapons instead.

Can you show me a link that supports your statement that the G80 supports 8 levels of AA? I'm interested, I've never seen this.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/8800_features.html

On the C&C3 demo it shows 5 levels of antialiasing:

Tried turning down the resolution and test the different levels? You are playing at 1600x1200.... don't think i'd notice whether it's at 4x, or 8x at that res.

640x480 :!:

OK OK!
The game does not support 640x480, so i compared AA Levels in 800x600 & Here are some images:
First of all, here is the game's Graphics Options:

Here is the screen shot with NoAA (Level 0 or Off):

Here is the same screen shot at Level 1:

Here is the same screen shot at Level 3(Max level with ATI X1K series graphics cards):

Here is the same screen shot at Level 5(Max level with 8800Series graphics cards with Forceware 97.94):

Here is the same screen shots in Level 8(Max level with 8800Series graphics cards with Forceware 158.19):

As i looked at these screen shots i can easily tell the difference up to level 5, but i can't find any difference between Level 5 & Level 8. :?
What do you think?
Ouch! overall the game looks pathetic when comparing these screen shots with the above screen shots that have taken at 1600x1200.