Af?

[imported_mn9500]

what does anistrophic filtering do, in games such as HL2, and its mods (CSS & DoD:S), if its what i think it is, it makes the textures look better, but how, like what looks better, more detailed or what?

[Tokkobot]

Re: Af?

It makes textures that are far away look much better. It doesnt effect textures that are close to you in any way.

[imported_mn9500]

Re: Af?

so would i see a huge diff in quality or performance in CSS ir HL2.

[Shamus]

Re: Af?

so would i see a huge diff in quality or performance in CSS ir HL2.

You might see some image quality improvement on those games when you view objects at a distance (like looking down a road) but at the cost of performance the higher you go.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Af?

The performance hit is only small on higher cards so you should always enable it.
I run all my games at 8xAF

[NoSoup4You]

Re: Af?

It clears up textures that are further away from you. Your card should be able to handle it, so go for it. In-game its called "Texture Filtering" just fyi.

[imported_mn9500]

Re: Af?

well actually im talking about HL2 and CSS, i know about BF2, its on high, in css it was going around 30 fps, so i put my aa down to 4x from 8xS. its above 60 fps now.

[NoSoup4You]

Re: Af?

AA is more demanding then AF. Generally you want to set AF to 2x your AA setting.