8800 gts...what does anti-analyzing do?

First of all what does anti analyzing do...are what are the capabilities of the 8800 gts 640mb for games like fear and oblivion? Just wanted to know i set my oblivion to 8x seemed about the same... any comments?

As the hat man said you dont really need above x4 but as for the rest of it i would say max all the sliders dont think hddr lighting and AA work at the same time but you may be able to force it in drivers.
I just use bloom and AA.
The main thing in Oblivion is you want the view distance and distant land buildings etc to max and if you start to get too slow back off on the fade settings and the shadow settings.
If you keep shadows down it helps with vision in caves and dundeons etc.
But with that rig i dont think you will have many probs.
Mactronix
Ps in the games forum there is an in depth sticky on Oblivion optimisation.

Oblivion won't allow you to enabled antialiasing with HDR in the game, but any Geforce 8 series card can force it in the drivers by enable "Override any application setting".

true, unless you have an ATi x1000 series or higher card, or the nvidia 8000 series cards.

here, have a look at this site.

it shows the sort of differences you would see with different AA settings.

http://au.gamespot.com/features/6168650/index.html

how do you force it in the drivers? for the benefit of someone who has vista and an 8 series

set HDR from within the game, but in the control panel turn on “override application settings” and then select the level of AA you want to force inside the game.

Similar method for ATi's X1K and HD2K cards.

It's better than the Chuck Patch hassle, but still Bethesda should just add it from within the game (unless they're worried about HDR correct AA, which would surprise me, but at least be a good reason other than just lack of motivation/effort).