Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering

kellinjar · 05-22-2006, 02:32 AM

So now that I finally got around to installing Linux on a PC that has a real video card in it, I'm wondering if these things are possible. The included ATI drivers seem pretty sparse (and yes I've heard about the whole ATI/Linux stuff) so is there some other way to force anti-aliasing in games and such?

Linux.tar.gz · 05-22-2006, 07:51 AM

Well yes. ATI seems to have an utility for it. But anti-alias will crush your frames/second, for a tiny tiny tiny image enhancement, so you'll better turn it off.

kellinjar · 05-22-2006, 11:06 AM

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Well yes. ATI seems to have an utility for it. But anti-alias will crush your frames/second, for a tiny tiny tiny image enhancement, so you'll better turn it off.

I'm well aware of the performance hit, however I'm getting like 190 fps in torcs and I'm curious to play with it. Besides, not what I asked. If there is a utility for changing that, where can I find it, at the ATI website?

Linux.tar.gz · 05-23-2006, 09:12 AM

There must be an utility shipped with the driver. Try ati-settings, ati-setup or something like that.

kellinjar · 05-23-2006, 09:21 AM

Aticonfig actually. I found it late last night. It also improved my performance by running aticonfig --initial=/etc/X11/xorg.conf after initializing it, and setting FSAA to 2 samples I got 300 FPS on some torc tracks, ones I had previously gotten 200 FPS on. It improved Glxgears by about 400 fps.