Anti-aliasing now available from ATI

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etaDriver.aspx

ATI Catalyst™ 10.7a beta driver features:

Starcraft II: Support for Anti-Aliasing through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using a Windows® 7, Windows Vista® or Windows XP based system with an:
ATI Radeon™ HD 5xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX™ for Eyefinity™ supported configurations
Download:
In order to download and install the ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver, click on the following link:

ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver for Windows® 7 / Windows Vista®
ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver for Windows XP
Refer to Article 20870 for detailed instructions on how to properly install the ATI Catalyst beta driver

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

Hardware
ATI Radeon HD 5xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 4xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 3xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 2xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
Software
ATI Catalyst Control Center
Starcraft II
Operating System(s)
Windows 7 32-bit Edition
Windows 7 64-bit Edition
Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
Windows XP Professional / Home
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP 64-bit Edition




Just installing it myself now and will post some before/after screenshots. Not sure how my computer will handle it though

Thankyou so much. :)

thanks dl'ing right now

Neato

Is it worth getting the beta?

It's just now implemented? What's that performance drop I've been getting when enabling AA then?


Hmmmmm, weird. I've been losing performance for no reason.

I've installed the driver but I'm having a bug where CCC won't open so I can't provide any more details than the fact it's out. No problems with the driver so far though.

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Originally Posted by Maul

I've installed the driver but I'm having a bug where CCC won't open so I can't provide any more details than the fact it's out. No problems with the driver so far though.

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That happened to me once. You need to upgrade the Motherboard/southbridge drivers, also.

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No, no, no! You can't just do that. You can't just make a deferred renderer do antialiasing. Not without completely replacing every shader the game tries to use. Which is... rude. And potentially dangerous, in case they, I don't know, change the shader at some point.

This is a beastly, brutal hack. And I have no idea how well the game will hold up with such a hack in place.

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Originally Posted by Maul

I've installed the driver but I'm having a bug where CCC won't open so I can't provide any more details than the fact it's out. No problems with the driver so far though.

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Actually I had that happen too. I fixed it by uninstalling the drivers before doing installing the new ones (make sure they're completely removed, not just CCC).

Good to know AA is supported, I might stick with ATI after all (as long as they're drivers don't bug out on me again), but its of no use to me right now seeing how my card can only run on medium to begin with.

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Originally Posted by Nicol Bolas

No, no, no! You can't just do that. You can't just make a deferred renderer do antialiasing. Not without completely replacing every shader the game tries to use. Which is... rude. And potentially dangerous, in case they, I don't know, change the shader at some point.

This is a beastly, brutal hack. And I have no idea how well the game will hold up with such a hack in place.

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So what is nVidia doing?

Well the CCC worked with the latest release drivers, but when updating with the hotfix it stopped working. No big deal as I never use it and AA doesn't bother me either way, just thought I'd try it out. I'll try again when they update the next lot of drivers.

Why use anti-aliasing anyways? I never use it and on screens with a resolution higher than 1280 x 720, it all looks good anyways without AA.

What type of monitor (LCD, CRT) and size?