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ELSA GLADIAC Review
April 28, 2000   Brandon Sandman Bell > [View My Other Articles]
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We've received a lot of requests for full-scene anti-aliasing screenshots, so we figured we'd use the Quake 3 NV15 level as a demonstration. All screenshots were taken in "Normal" mode at 640x480.

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To be honest, the screenshots really don't do full scene anti-aliasing justice. In some shots, you can hardly see the difference, but once you're inside the game the difference is quite obvious. 640x480 looks marvelous with FSAA!

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I ran a few informal tests with the NV15 level and FSAA enabled on my personal system. Basic specs are a Pentium III 500E at 500MHz with no overclocking on the CPU or GeForce 2 GTS. Quake 3 Normal at 640x480 framerates were 28.4 fps without FSAA, 26.5 fps with FSAA.

Keep in mind that the 500MHz CPU is obviously the bottleneck, with a faster CPU we'd get a better idea of the performance hit FSAA brings.

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