How to turn on AA and AF

[Iniki]

since many people have INSISTED that you cant use these functions in the beta I decided to write a little guide for those of you using Nvidia cars(I'm sure ATI is similar)

AA and AF are not part part of the graphics quality settings, they are post processing features of your graphics cards and are available on just about every game even if the game settings dont turn them on... you can

1. open the Nvidia control panel
2. Under "view" select advanced
3. Under 3d settings in the task window, select "manage 3d settings"
4. Under the Program settings tab, click the Add button
5. locate where you installed war.exe, select it, then click ok
6. select desired anisotropic filtering level
7. turn antialiasing to "Override application setting"
8. select desired AA level
9. you can also turn on Texture filtering - anisotropic sample optimization if you desire.

there... now no one can post any more screenshots with tons of jagged lines

[Rmedies]

Good post, and yes this improves performance a lot.



Note: they added different video setting options since the preview weekend.

6) Added new Graphics Settings and seeking more feedback from testers to guide future improvements. You asked for it, you got it. Well, in all fairness we were going to put these in anyway but it never hurts to nudge us a bit at times.

MJB

[Snuggans]

they've also fixed the caching of textures so that now your dear forced AF will actually do something.

[Iniki]

Originally Posted by Snuggans

they've also fixed the caching of textures so that now your dear forced AF will actually do something.

well AA is really the show stopper... it looks SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better with no jagged edged

[kashak]

Its a beta. You shouldnt be introducing external factors that could be causing bugs.

In retail its fine but this is a beta and you should be helping Mythic not causing them problems by stuffing them around by forcing settings that the game might not yet be supporting properly.

[Mazari]

Originally Posted by kashak

Its a beta. You shouldnt be introducing external factors that could be causing bugs.

In retail its fine but this is a beta and you should be helping Mythic not causing them problems by stuffing them around by forcing settings that the game might not yet be supporting properly.

wrong wrong wrong, actually whatever you do is helping mythic to see if there arent problems with ahrdware etc,

[Mephane]

Especially that close to release, where problems like this really start to matter. If the game won't run stable with AA/AF forced through the device driver, the graphics engine is severely broken.

[Illusions]

Originally Posted by Mazari

wrong wrong wrong, actually whatever you do is helping mythic to see if there arent problems with ahrdware etc,

'xactly! Tha' is a purpos' ta 'beta', 'ey?

[Helveticarno]

Cant seem to get my AA and AF forced on my ati. Yes I go to catalyst control and uncheck "use application settings" but nothing happens.

Any fix for this?

[Kekmeister]

Bump.

Having the same issue as gazillions of ATI users, where's mah AA?

:@

[Zaagazug]

Originally Posted by Mephane

Especially that close to release, where problems like this really start to matter. If the game won't run stable with AA/AF forced through the device driver, the graphics engine is severely broken.

Which it does. Seems like the ATI software is not as good at overriding application settings though as the nVidia one.

[Stormblazer]

Originally Posted by Zaagazug

Which it does. Seems like the ATI software is not as good at overriding application settings though as the nVidia one.

This is one of the primary reasons I don't use ATI cards. I can't stand their drivers. They're not as bad as they used to be, granted, but they're still inferior to nVidia, especially under Linux, which matters to me since I dual boot.

[Itarrow]

Originally Posted by Helvetica

Cant seem to get my AA and AF forced on my ati. Yes I go to catalyst control and uncheck "use application settings" but nothing happens.

Any fix for this?

Are you moving the slider so to select different levels of AA or AF ?

[Helveticarno]

Originally Posted by Itarrow

Are you moving the slider so to select different levels of AA or AF ?

yes, just doesnt work

[Greever]

I pointed this thread to my brother who is in the midst of buying a brand new ATI card. Apparently if you want to force AA/AF in the Catalyst drivers there are a few tricks you can do.

1) First off, if it is not working, disable the Catalyst AI. Apparently the Catalyst AI tries to optimize the card for the game, and will accept flags from the game defining what is, and is not, acceptable - despite whatever you may set. In this case, it is ignoring your forced AA/AF settings.

2) I found this one to be strange, but anyways... Another "hack" to prevent the driver override that I described above is to rename your game exe to "Oblivion.exe". *shrug* Don't ask my why - smarter people than I testify to its effectiveness.

Credit to my brother for digging up the threads on it:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=330671

Additional thread for the In-Game Support forums talking about it:
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/for...ad.php?t=60716