anti-aliasing, recent viewers, GTX260, no driver control

[Jonna Korhonen]

Greetings Peeps.

A while ago I discovered I can control anti-aliasing though the nvidia control panel software of my GTX260. I could disable anti-aliasing in the viewer and just let the driver handle it just dandy. Somewhere along the line, perhaps three updates ago I lost that ability. I'd like to play with lighting and shadows but due to the viewers collision (crash) problems with anti-aliasing enabled, things are sorta sketchy at best. I prefer nice smooth lines if I can. Driver control of anisotropic filtering still works through nvidia control panel though. Any advice? 

 

Thank you. :matte-motes-grin:

 

 

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[Chelsea Malibu]

Doesn't Anisotropic filtering remove any Anti-Aliasing effect?

[Jonna Korhonen]

nope. anisotropic filtering is a texture thing with off angle viewing. anti aliasing is more of an edge of object thing..

[Sephy McCaw]

actually anistrophic filtering only deals with textures(making the weird angled oneslook normal and unblurred)  and doesnt affect anti-aliasing

 

to OP would be best to just let Sl handle your anti aliasing it works just fine with shadows

[Chelsea Malibu]

Like bilinear and trilinear filtering, anisotropic filtering eliminates aliasing effects, but improves on these other techniques by reducing blur and preserving detail at extreme viewing angles.

 

got it.