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Forcing Antialiasing not working?

dawningphoenixdawningphoenix Registered User regular
edited November 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Alright, I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail, and I'm hoping the collective wisdom of the PA forums can help. Basically, at some point in the last couple weeks my computer's antialiasing stopped working. I've got a brand new GTX 260, Asus motherboard, 4GB of RAM, and a 3.2GHz AMD quad core processor. I was using the 191.07 drivers from Nvidia. In the last few hours, I've tried the 186.18 and 195.55 drivers, with no luck. I've tried completely uninstalling all the drivers, running Driver Sweeper to clear out the junk, and reinstalling them. Guess what? It didn't work. Any ideas? Please?

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I have this problem in Win 7 as well, i cant force any AA. I'm using a 9800GTX+ OC'd though.

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  • MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    We need to know what games/software we are talking about here. You cannot force AA on some games, even using the nvidia control panel. I had this on a couple of games some years back which drove me nuts because that's just sloppy programming.

    Nowadays I seldom use AA anymore, at higher resolutions it doesn't add much.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    It's not sloppy programming.. it's just how some games are set up.

    We really need to know your games though, because it could be that every game you tried doesn't support AA (ie, Halo PC, etc)

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Before I saw Movitz' and FyreWulff's posts I was going to post the same exact thing. It's quite probable that your computer hardware and settings are fine. Some games will simply not allow Anti-Aliasing no matter what.

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  • dawningphoenixdawningphoenix Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Call of Duty 4, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, Oblivion, Torchlight, Half Life 2, Portal, WoW... AA used to work fine on them. In particular, with DA:O, I've tried it with or without forcing it, and through the in-game options menu. Moving the AA slider seems to do nothing at all.

    Oh, I'm generally using 16x AF, but I've tried playing with that and that doesn't have any effect on the AA. I'm running at 1920x1080, by the way.

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