Help with settings, please

OK, this is going to be a really dumb question, but here goes:
In the video card properties there's a place where you can set fsaa, aniso, etc. In many of my game menus, there are also display options which include many of the same things.
Now, say for example I set 2x fsaa in the video card properties, but no fsaa in the games diplay properties. Will the game run at 2x or none? Or if I set 4x aniso in the video card properties but in the game I set bilinear filtering, what filtering am I getting? Or if I set aniso in the game as well, am I getting double the filtering, and therefore a bigger performance hit?
I'm just wondering what the relationship is between the selected video card properties and the video properties as can be selected from within a game. Did that make sense?
Thanks for your replies :smile:

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