Tiger Woods Out...Until August!
 |
| | (Post a comment) » Removed: FSAA Comparison: V5500/ GF2If you're looking for our first FSAA comparison article, we've decided to yank it from the site. After a good deal of internal discussion today, we decided on this course of action because the protocols used in the first article were not the best possible way to base a comparison. As mentioned before, we're working on a new comparison test involving two identically configured machines, sitting side by side.
FSAA is a very complex topic, and it's certainly a feature that cannot be characterized, measured, or compared by any traditional means. Because of that, we're going to handle the new article with even more care and attention than anything we've ever done before. FiringSquad is committed to providing the highest quality content. We're not going to be satisfied with anything less than our best possible effort. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
| You are viewing the comments as Guest and are limited to 10 messages per page. [Login] Not an FS Member? Register here, it's FREE! You will see more posts per page and you can filter out the Anonymous comments as well as enable the profanity filter. |
|
#40
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 04:49pm 05/2/2000
|
|
Comment:
 Reply to This
|
Just think about the reactions the V5 would have gotten if it was
that card that didn't do the D3D-FSAA... But oh, it's the
nVidia-card, that doesn't matter then, we all know GeForce rules
yadiyada Voodoo sucks blablalblabla...
Grow up, will you... You just can't take it 3Dfx is better this time
around... How childish.
Oh yeah, and Glide sucks too! It's the fastest around (on the right
card) but who's counting. Since when is speed important?
Copkiller 1.0 (to lazy to register)
|
| |
|
#39
|
Author:
|
Freon at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Response to #37:
Reply to This
|
I'm fully aware of that.
Reread my post captain anonymous.
|
| |
|
#38
|
Author:
|
GX-WarSpite at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Response to #37:
Reply to This
|
A torontonian? (yes, dammit, I didn't capitalize on purpose! :)
The Leafs are going down. Sorry, no ifs ands or buts about it.
There is NO way the Leafs are gonna win, or else all of Canada will
have to listen to you guys gloating for the next 300 years. If I
have to, I'll go down and break CuJo's knees myself (which will
probably hurt me more than him, since I'm from Edmonton, and a huge
fan of his :(
So in the immortal words of some l33t StarCraft player, "DiE!
>=["
;)
|
| |
|
|
#37
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 03:31pm 05/2/2000
|
|
Response to #25:
Reply to This
|
"#5 You're obviously not much of a computer geek if you don't
understand software vs. hardware. There is not much difference when
you consider the software runs on the hardware... You're ignorance
really shows. How about you go learn a bit about computer
architecture and come back to us."
And you need to brush up on your terminology.
When something is done in software, it generally means that all of
the instructions are executed by the system CPU. This is like Quake
in software rendering mode.
When something is done in hardware, it means that the instructions
are offloaded from the main CPU to another processor or controller
(i.e Ultra DMA controller, audio codec or video card). This is like
Quake in OpenGL.
The (signifigant) difference is WHICH hardware the software is
running on. Before you take it on yourself to bash anyone, you
should know what you are talking about, first.
Brian
Toronto
|
| |
|
|
#36
|
Author:
|
CalBear at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Response to #11:
Reply to This
|
Unreal Tournament is D3D, remember? No D3D = no GF2 compatibility
for FSAA right now
|
| |
|
#35
|
Author:
|
CalBear at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Response to #18:
Reply to This
|
and to #16 as well...
The reason we didn't show it in a bunch of the games you mentioned
is because those are all D3D games, which the GeForce2 currently
can't run FSAA in. We mentioned this throughout the article. It's
hard to do a side by side comparison when one of the sides doesn't
show up, so to speak. On that factor alone, one might give the nod
to 3dfx at this point. Its FSAA works in most games just fine right
now, whereas the NVIDIA card can't do it in D3D.
We tested probably over fifteen different games (that's a lot of
work) and the 3 we ended up with were the best we could do. As soon
as the GeForce 2 drivers are more stable for D3D we'd love to run
another "Pepsi challenge" and probably will. We'll certainly do a
wider cross section of games.
|
| |
|
|
#34
|
Author:
|
Weeplay at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Response to #33:
Reply to This
|
That is a great idea!
Hey F.S. Could you do that? Put up some pictures and let people
vote on which ones they think came from which card. It would be a
great way to see if people really can really tell the difference.
|
| |
|
|
#33
|
Author:
|
Anonymous at 02:21pm 05/2/2000
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
About blind tests...
It'd be nice if some review site released a zip pack of .tgas and
let people make their own conclusions first, then a day or so later
post the answers of which card & which FSAA setting it was taken
on.
But there are always issues that you must get around when doing
this. My biggest concern in all the FSAA comparisons done from
various sites is that there has been no way to take the EXACT same
screenshot for comparison.
Maybe someone can make a demo specifically with FSAA caps in mind,
which would go to scenes with high aliasing and pause long enough
for screenshots. This could minimize the variations between shot
comparisons.
|
| |
|
#32
|
Author:
|
Fen Phen at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
Random answer:
Riff Raff's girlfriend was Sonia. =)
|
| |
|
|
#31
|
Author:
|
Freon at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
|
|
Comment:
Reply to This
|
... Ug. Seeing that the framerate difference between 800x600 with
FSAA and 1600x1200 is very similar, one would make the obvious
assumption that all the calculations are done on the card using
driver software. Using the CPU to bilinear filter 1600x1200 to
800x600 would be utterly stupid and INCREDIBLY slow. (resize a
1600x1200 image to 800x600 with bilinear in Photoshop or PSP, it
takes a 0.5 to 2.0 seconds) It is done on the card. Once again,
please inform yourself before you make ignorant comments. Read,
think, THEN post.
Is it done on the card? I think that is pretty obvious, YES. Is it
software? Well duh. Anything in the driver is software and thus
any feature is ultimately turned on and off with some lines in a
software driver. The actual bulk of the calculation is done on the
card. You'd get under one frame per second if it weren't. It makes
no sense that the resize or compilation of frames would take place
on the CPU.
|
| |
  Gigabyte P55 Lynnfield-ready Motherboard Roundup
 If you're in the market for a new P55 motherboard to go along with your new Lynnfield CPU you'll definitely want to check out today's article. Inside ... [+] (Comments) |  Left 4 Dead 2 PC Review
 Valve says Left 4 Dead 2 contains so much new content, it's worthy of a sequel rather than DLC. Is this true or false? Judge for yourself in today's r... [+] (Comments) |
ATI Radeon 5970 Performance Preview
 After a 10-month hiatus, ATI's once again got the world's fastest graphics card. The Radeon 5970 fuses two RV870 chips onto one board for max performa... [+] (Comments) | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PC Review
 With no dedicated servers, no lean, and 18-player cap for multi, does Modern Warfare 2 for PC live up to its predecessors? Most of the reviews online ... [+] (Comments) |
Sapphire Radeon 5870 Vapor-X 1GB Review
 With its custom vapor chamber cooling+heatpipes and factory OC'ing, Sapphire's 5870 Vapor-X is targeted towards gamers looking for a 5870 card with a ... [+] (Comments) | Dragon Age Origins Review
 |
Phenom II Gets A New Revision: 125W AMD Phenom II X4 965 Performance Preview
 Promising lower power consumption, lower temps, and most importantly for enthusiasts, more OC'ing, AMD is back with a new CPU revision for the Phenom ... [+] (Comments) | Shattered Horizon Review
 FutureMark, well known for their popular 3DMark benchmarks, is venturing into new territory with Shattered Horizon. This multiplayer shooter is perhap... [+] (Comments) |
| AMD Athlon II X3 435/Athlon II X2 240e Performance Preview
 Today AMD is introducing 8 new Athlon II CPUs intended to service different segments of the budget CPU market. For HTPC users, new 45W dual, triple, a... [+] (Comments) | Borderlands PC Review
 Is it an RPG or is it an FPS? Borderlands blends the best elements of both in one entertaining package. Vandy has spent the past week playing the PC v... [+] (Comments) |
EVGA P55 FTW Review
 Looking for a good P55 motherboard to OC your CPU beyond 4GHz? If so, you may want to check out EVGA's P55 FTW. With its extra ATX12V connector, this ... [+] (Comments) | Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review
 While it's not the true sequel to Operation Flashpoint, Dragon Rising is billed as a modern tactical sim just like its predecessor. Does it live up to... [+] (Comments) |
ATI Radeon HD 5770/5750 Performance Preview
 With prices ranging from $109-$159, ATI's Radeon 5700 series of cards bring DX11 gaming to mainstream price points and usher in new levels of energy e... [+] (Comments) | Batman: Arkham Asylum PC Review
 Already a smash hit on consoles, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum sports better graphics and support for NVIDIA technologies PhysX and 3D Visio... [+] (Comments) |
Batman: Arkham Asylum PhysX Features and Performance
 One eye candy feature PC users can enjoy over the console edition of Batman: AA is PhysX. Rocksteady's PhysX implementation is more than just tearing ... [+] (Comments) | Resident Evil 5 PC Review
 Sporting a new mercenaries mode with more enemies on screen, higher resolution DX10 graphics, and 3D Vision support, Resident Evil 5 is definitely bes... [+] (Comments) |
| More Hardware » | More Games » | Interviews » |
| |
• This Month
• October 1 - 31, 2009
• September 1 - 30, 2009
• August 1 - 31, 2009
• July 1 - 31, 2009
• June 1 - 30, 2009
• May 1 - 31, 2009
• April 1 - 30, 2009
• March 1 - 31, 2009
• February 1 - 28, 2009
• January 1 - 31, 2009
• December 1 - 31, 2008
• November 1 - 30, 2008
|
|
|
Digg
Del.icio.us
Reddit
SU
furl
