- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Now, true, Halo doesn't support AA or AF. BUT, if you use custom drivers, such as Omega Drivers, you can enable temporal anti-aliasing. It works, but it's just not as optimized as normal AA is all, so it'll run a bit slower than norm AA style.
Quote from:OmegaDrivers.net FAQ
What does the T2 and T3 value in the "Full Scene Anti-Aliasing" setting mean?
Those additional settings are the "Temporal Anti Aliasing" values, they control the TAA multiplier. The TAA value found in normal ATI drivers is equivalent to the T2 value found here, this will effectively multiply the FSAA value by 2, that means, if you set the FSAA value to 4xT2, you will be getting 8xFSAA at the same speed of 4x. The T3 value is just an experimental option that multiplies the TAA by 3, that means if you use 4xT3 you would be getting 12xFSAA, but it may or may not work for some of you, all depends on what type of card, monitor and refresh rate combination you use.
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What is the difference between Anisotropic Quality, Performance and Forced?
The Performance and Quality options found here do the same function as in the normal ATI drivers, Performance mode uses bilinear filtering while Quality uses an optimized trilinear filtering mode that is angle dependant. The new Forced mode behaves just like the Quality mode, but it "forces" full trilinear filtering with no optimizations on any game. Some games, like Halo, can see great benefit from this setting since the game always forces bilinear filtering. This mode is also a little slower than the normal Quality setting.
Since you say you're using an ATI Radeon 9550, I don't recommend using the temporal AA and the forced AF modes since the game will run really close to a crawl in big gunfights, but if ya wanna give it a shot anywho...
http://www.omegadrivers.net
Anywho, I myself, I love the look of it, cause it makes it feel all futuristic with special futuristic style zooming... or something... trick of the mind to keep me from thinking the game's supposed to be prettier I guess. :)