SLI, Crossfire features

[JezEngland]

Hi,

I upgraded to 2 way SLI GTX 480 recently and have found some features it does/offers like better colour, SLI Antialiasing up to 64xAA, SLI Anti Aliasing Transparancy up to 16xSupersampling. What other features are SLI exclusive and what does Crossfire give if there are any?

Thanks

 

[adicool96]

Apart from scalable performance and more horsepower?

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Why would anyone need 64x AA

Cool though

 

[JezEngland]

I've found mix of low AA like 4xAA with AA Transparancy x 2 or 4 Super with AA Gamma Correction looks better than just 16xQAA and I think in Crysis it's less demanding

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I've found mix of low AA like 4xAA with AA Transparancy x 2 or 4 Super with AA Gamma Correction looks better than just 16xQAA and I think in Crysis it's less demanding

It's odd how crysis is so inefficient at everything else but then when it comes to AA works a dream

 

[JezEngland]

I've found Crysis AA is a killer when it's 8xQ and above. The other killer is the AI cause when the game slows down enemys are loaded/loading. The level on Warhead TinyTom uses in the Youtube videos, kill everything and I've found it runs perfectly leaving 1 enemy so we can free-roam. Often the graphics is OK and effecient considering what it delivers.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

It's only worth disabling AA completely. 2x is no real difference to 8x.

Isn't AI handled by cpu?

 

[JezEngland]

4xAA with AA Gamma Correction and AA Transparancy x 4 Supersampling is better than 16xQAA and hasn't caused noticed processing problems like 16xQAA. Looks better, a good bit better than AA disabled

I used 2xAA till I've OC'd the stuff

I think AI is

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Well i did try posting a screen of my AA options in crysis but wasn't responding so i'll just say it: i have only standard AA options up till 8x. No MSAA or Anisotropic. But then i am still using the demo

 

[JezEngland]

the ATI/AMD chips don't support higher in Crysis

 

[JezEngland]

Apart from scalable performance and more horsepower?

Yes

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

the ATI/AMD chips don't support higher in Crysis

I know. But i would have thought they'd support more than bog standard AA

 

[JezEngland]

mm ye i think they do though not in crysis. you might be able to make it work using AMD's control pannel though i've tried it with nvidia control pannel and it didn't do anything also with AA disabled in-game, the AA at all settings wasn't render'd