A question to veteran Geforce 4 users

**Dark Watcher** · September 9th, 2002

What do you prefer for AntiAliasing:

4X FSAA (OpenGL)

or

4XS FSAA (Direct X)

and why.....(particularly for emulation)

Particleman · September 10th, 2002

4XS does remove jaggies better, but there is a greater performance hit when using 4XS vs regular 4X. So on my GF4 I usually just stick with regular 4X FSAA with most games since the performance is better and 4X still removes jaggies pretty darn good. On really old games or ePSX where performance isn't an issue, 4XS is better though. I wish nVidia would implement 4XS in OpenGL though, since I do prefer Pete's OpenGL driver vs his Direct3D one (not exactly sure why though since I can't really tell the difference between the two when playing .

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permalink · September 10th, 2002

I perfer 4XS over 4X but I perfer the OGL GPU over the D3D one so I usually end up using 4X FSAA. I agree w/Particleman and would like to see an OGL version of 4XS. When I was using Riva Tuner, I really liked 4X 9 Tap FSAA. But Lord Kane said that he does not think that Riva Tuner works w/the 40.41 drivers, which I am now using. So I'll stay w/4X FSAA for now. BTW I have a GF4 TI 4600 card.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

Craig Venom · October 22nd, 2002

I prefer the 4xfsaa for opengl
and also i really love to try the 4xfsaa gausian blur ( am i spell it correct?) for linux.
It is real coollllllllll............

permalink · October 22nd, 2002

Honestly on my system I have no performance gains from using OpenGL over DX since all my games are limited to 60 FPS. so I generally use 4xS. Which doesn't really provide a performance hit to emulation for me.

And there's really nothing about the OpenGL plugin that makes it visually superior to the DX one.

dogulation000 · October 23rd, 2002

Quote:

Originally posted by sxamiga
I perfer 4XS over 4X but I perfer the OGL GPU over the D3D one so I usually end up using 4X FSAA. I agree w/Particleman and would like to see an OGL version of 4XS. When I was using Riva Tuner, I really liked 4X 9 Tap FSAA. But Lord Kane said that he does not think that Riva Tuner works w/the 40.41 drivers, which I am now using. So I'll stay w/4X FSAA for now. BTW I have a GF4 TI 4600 card.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

There's a new version of RivaTuner that supports 40.xx now, I think.

**Kane** · October 23rd, 2002

Yeah, he's aware of taht now. That post was made quite a while ago. Craig Venom just ressurected this thread.

Craig Venom · October 23rd, 2002

sorry

September 9th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Dark Watcher Coffee Demon Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Darkness, Unknown Posts: 2,897	A question to veteran Geforce 4 users What do you prefer for AntiAliasing: 4X FSAA (OpenGL) or 4XS FSAA (Direct X) and why.....(particularly for emulation) __________________

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Craig Venom Author Of OverDrive Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Jay Bee, Johor, Malaysia Posts: 299	I prefer the 4xfsaa for opengl and also i really love to try the 4xfsaa gausian blur ( am i spell it correct?) for linux. It is real coollllllllll............ __________________ System Spec : Intel Pentium IV 1.8A @ 2.66 Ghz \|\|Asus P4S533-E Mobo\|\|512 PC2700 DDR 333 @ 370 \|\|nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 @ 290/590\|\|Soundblaster Live! 5.1\|\|Samsung SyncMaster 17 Inch\|\|80Gb Western Digital w/ 8MB Buffer 7200RPM & 40GB Seagate 7200RPM\|\|WinXP Pro SP 1\| sig removed, try reading the sig rules OverDrive Author

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Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Yeah, he's aware of taht now. That post was made quite a while ago. Craig Venom just ressurected this thread. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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Craig Venom Author Of OverDrive Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Jay Bee, Johor, Malaysia Posts: 299	sorry __________________ System Spec : Intel Pentium IV 1.8A @ 2.66 Ghz \|\|Asus P4S533-E Mobo\|\|512 PC2700 DDR 333 @ 370 \|\|nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 @ 290/590\|\|Soundblaster Live! 5.1\|\|Samsung SyncMaster 17 Inch\|\|80Gb Western Digital w/ 8MB Buffer 7200RPM & 40GB Seagate 7200RPM\|\|WinXP Pro SP 1\| sig removed, try reading the sig rules OverDrive Author

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September 10th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Particleman Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 462	4XS does remove jaggies better, but there is a greater performance hit when using 4XS vs regular 4X. So on my GF4 I usually just stick with regular 4X FSAA with most games since the performance is better and 4X still removes jaggies pretty darn good. On really old games or ePSX where performance isn't an issue, 4XS is better though. I wish nVidia would implement 4XS in OpenGL though, since I do prefer Pete's OpenGL driver vs his Direct3D one (not exactly sure why though since I can't really tell the difference between the two when playing . )

September 10th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
sxamiga Guest Posts: n/a	I perfer 4XS over 4X but I perfer the OGL GPU over the D3D one so I usually end up using 4X FSAA. I agree w/Particleman and would like to see an OGL version of 4XS. When I was using Riva Tuner, I really liked 4X 9 Tap FSAA. But Lord Kane said that he does not think that Riva Tuner works w/the 40.41 drivers, which I am now using. So I'll stay w/4X FSAA for now. BTW I have a GF4 TI 4600 card. sincerely, sx/amiga

October 22nd, 2002	#5 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Honestly on my system I have no performance gains from using OpenGL over DX since all my games are limited to 60 FPS. so I generally use 4xS. Which doesn't really provide a performance hit to emulation for me. And there's really nothing about the OpenGL plugin that makes it visually superior to the DX one.