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Mysdora
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Posted - 2007.12.07 00:46:00 -
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Edited by: Mysdora on 07/12/2007 00:49:11
I'm guessing the AA problem exists because EVE uses 16b floating point buffers for HDR, but not all DX9.0c cards support hardware multisampling and FP16 blending at the same time. It would have been possible to go the HL2 way of using SM2.0 fixed point buffers to get HDR+AA with negligible effect on quality, while also supporting a wider range of cards, but CCP probably had other features weighing heavily in favor of SM3.0. The DX10 client shouldn't have any of these issues.
The bloom effect itself doesn't necessarily have anything to do with HDR rendering. It just happens to be a great way of rubbing your shiny new HDR engine in the player's face, so it's being horribly overused in just about every modern game. Technically you could do a bloom effect with dx8 level hardware, you just store high luminosity values somewhere, blur it and blend with the original frame. Heck of a lot faster than HDR bloom too, although not nearly as nice quality. With so many different ways of implementing specular bloom, it's not really meaningful to say "look, that game has bloom and AA, why doesn't this have too?"
As for that nHancer thing, I haven't tried it myself, but I'd be very surprised if it produces correct results with both HDR and AA enabled.
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Cyrus Teymour
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Posted - 2007.12.09 02:44:00 -
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Modified my (working) FSAA profile to include the HDR hack - no luck. Whatever EVE is using is not possible to AA on my 7900 GS.
(Note: The standard nVidia profile for EVE Online doesn't work. You have to create one for ExeFile.exe.)
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SnakeByte86
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Posted - 2007.12.09 02:59:00 -
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 Originally by: MasterEnt
Use your cards driver settings maybe?
you cant use it now, EVE overpowers driver settings, which is just silly.
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Azrael Maxim
Flexible Demeanour
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Posted - 2007.12.09 03:27:00 -
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Originally by: Cyrus Teymour
Modified my (working) FSAA profile to include the HDR hack - no luck. Whatever EVE is using is not possible to AA on my 7900 GS.
(Note: The standard nVidia profile for EVE Online doesn't work. You have to create one for ExeFile.exe.)
Only the 8800 series nvidia cards are able to run aa and hdr at the same time, using nhancer that is.
I hope ccp will create an advanced device option menu with these options at some point though its a bit of a shame that they havnt had the time to do it yet.
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