(08-23-2010, 03:03 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Quote:Lol, my video card can't handle 9X AA . (I'm still wondering why).
Because your using SSAA. So your basically rendering at 9 times the resolution then downscaling to your screen resolution. So let's say your running a game at 1920 x 1080. Each frame is 2 mp (megapixels) in resolution. Let's say your gpu is capable of rendering 180 mp per second. That means you can render 90 fps at this resolution (180 mp/s / 2mp per frame = 90 fps). Now add 9xSSAA (triple width, triple height, 3x3=9x). Each frame is now 9 times the resolution since you've tripled the width and height, 18mp. So once again let's do the math (180 mp/s / 18mp per frame = 10 fps). Your down from 90 fps to 10 fps. So as you can see you need a VERY powerful gpu to handle that without any slowdowns.
Wow, thanks! I somehow do understand this ^^, so even with the ATI 5970 or 480 GTX it's not possible to run a game with a constant 60 FPS with 9X SSAA.