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Spinner
30 Apr 2004, 2:27am
After the discovery earlier this week of a new form of anti-aliasing called Temporal Anti-Aliasing, a feature that could be exposed via adding a registry key in ATI's latest drivers, it stuck out as something that warranted further attention. Elite Bastards investigates.

When the Radeon 9700 Pro was released, there were many good things that could be said about it. The jewel in its crown however was arguably its anti-aliasing performance and quality. Not only was it fast, but it also looked great, thanks to its rotated grid multisampling technique along with gamma correction. It was head and shoulders above what nVidia had to offer with its GeForceFX series, and although the delta in image quality has decreased with the release of the GeForce 6800, ATi still reigns supreme in the anti-aliasing category.

So, what more could ATi possibly do to improve what is already such an impressive facility? Temporal anti-aliasing, that's what...
Source: EliteBastards.com (http://www.elitebastards.com/page.php?pageid=4533&head=1&comments=1)

TheGr81
30 Apr 2004, 3:34am
Very interesting. I just enabled it in my drivers, I'll do some testing tomorrow.

Jengo
30 Apr 2004, 4:18am
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TheGr81
30 Apr 2004, 8:24pm
What's that mean, Jengo?
TOTALLY KICKASS right?

Edit:
Did some testing... It owns! Unless you start getting low framerates, then it really becomes distracting.