FSAA Screenshots

Notes

The Quake 3 shots were taken with 32-bit color and without compressed textures. We originally tried taking them at 1024x768, but switched to 800x600 when we noticed that the Radeon couldn't support 4x FSAA at 1024. While we could clearly see the difference in quality between 2x FSAA and 4x FSAA in Quake 3, we really couldn't see much of a difference between the different levels of FSAA in Counter-Stirke.

The garbled lines on top of the Radeon 4x Quake 3 shots are only present in the screenshots. We didn't see any lines in the actual game. We encountered sparklies (pixels that disappear and reappear even when you're standing still) only with the Radeon in the second set (market) of Counter-Strike shots.

All the shots have been transformed into JPG form. You can download the original BMP and TGA files here:

• GeForce3 Quake 3 (5MB ZIP)
  
• Radeon Quake 3 (4MB ZIP)
  
• GeForce3 Counter-Strike (6MB ZIP)
  
• Radeon Counter-Strike (4MB ZIP)

Test System Setup

AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz Processor
Abit KT7 Motherboard
256 MB Corsair CAS2 PC133 SDRAM
30GB IBM Deskstar DTLA 307030 ATA/100 Hard Drive
AFREEY 12X DVD-ROM

NVIDIA Reference 64MB DDR GeForce3
Driver version: 11.01

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR
Driver version: 5.13.01.3102

Windows 2000

NVIDIA GeForce3

GeForce3 no FSAA	GeForce3 2x FSAA
GeForce3 Quincunx FSAA	GeForce3 4x FSAA

ATI Radeon

Radeon no FSAA	Radeon 2x FSAA
Radeon 4x FSAA

NVIDIA GeForce3

GeForce3 no FSAA	GeForce3 2x FSAA
GeForce3 Quincunx FSAA	GeForce3 4x FSAA

ATI Radeon

Radeon no FSAA	Radeon 2x FSAA
Radeon 4x FSAA