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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-02-2007 at 09:51:59 AM

I can't seem to be able to set AA in oblivion.
I have all setings max, hdr, QTP3 etc. (all the best stuff), but when I enable AA in the Nvidia control panel, it works for other games but not Oblivion. Does anyone know why?

I have tried using override and enhance, but to no effect. I have set AA to 16x, no difference. This problem is only in Oblivion.

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Ananan   06-02-2007 at 08:04:12 PM
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I replied to this, but somehow it didn't stick.

I think only ATI cards can do HDR and AA.

I guess I could be wrong, maybe 8800 GTX does both.

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antikristuseke   06-02-2007 at 09:55:20 PM
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only nvidia cards capable of aa+hdr are the 8 series, anything before that you have to choose wether you want hdr or aa

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-02-2007 at 10:03:12 PM
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It says in my sig 8800GTX. Now can you tell me anything a bit more helpful?

And yes I mentioned that I get hdr and AA in other games, and the 8 series can do that.

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antikristuseke   06-02-2007 at 11:55:20 PM
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oh right, sorry about that, a bit exhausted and didnt notice your signature. I can only guess its either a driver or game related issue and you could try some other driver versions or check if you are runing the latest patch for oblivion (which you probably are)

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-03-2007 at 01:26:14 AM
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ok thanks for the help, but I've done all those things. *sigh* I guess I have to live with it for the moment

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sirheck   06-04-2007 at 01:36:55 AM
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Force a.a. in the nvidia control panel.
Then enable h.d.r. in the oblivion in game settings.

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strangestranger   06-04-2007 at 08:42:43 PM
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hmm, i know other 8800 users who have got both.

does this happen with all AA levesl or just max?

also, is it the same without HDR. i know you card can do it but just wondering if you cannot force AA full stop or if it is only with HDR.

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-04-2007 at 08:56:24 PM
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The problem is just in oblivion, at all AA levels, regardless of HDR and yes I have forced it in the control panel.

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strangestranger   06-04-2007 at 08:58:33 PM
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sorry i cannot be of more help, i have never used the nvidia control panel(how bad is that).

what about different driver versions? does it happen with them all.

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-04-2007 at 09:35:11 PM
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I have tried all the drivers and am currently using the 158.43 beta drivers. None of the drivers work.

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strangestranger   06-04-2007 at 09:43:24 PM
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don't take this the wrong way but with that setup this must be a bit hard to swallow :lol:

hmm, perhaps it is a vista issue?

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-04-2007 at 10:57:23 PM
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Ok thanks guys, I will follow suggestions in the link you posted, and report back in a while. Hopefully I will get it working. It isn't fun spending loads of money on decent stuff and not having it working properly.
(BTW for me anything over £25 is loads of money and I spent £1000)

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Wrinkly_Ninja   06-04-2007 at 11:40:48 PM
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Got it working. What I did was I made sure that AA was override in the control panel, then I deleted my Oblivion.ini file, ran oblivion, set everything to max, then followed the Tweakguides.com guide to tweak my ini. I must have accidently fiddled with a setting in the file before that disabled the AA.
The card was doing AA before, but i couldn't see the results, so now I have AA at no performance cost.

One final question.

At 1680x1050, what level of AA should I go for: 2x, 4x, 8x, 8xQ, 16x or 16xQ?

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strangestranger   06-05-2007 at 12:09:24 AM
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go for the highest you canget whilst maintaing performance i say.

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