Fix Anti-Aliasing for ATI Cards

[Rahatmattata]

<p>Fix anti-aliasing for ATI cards. It's been broken for months. HD4890 Win7 x64. It doesn't matter which version drivers I use, how I set my gpu settings, and/or game settings; AA doesn't work.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>How are you setting AA exactly?  The methods have changed over time and I just want to make sure.</p>

[Gaige]

<p>It works fine as long as you're using an old enough catalyst version that the option to disable catalyst ai is still in the 3d settings.</p><p>That combined with the eq2.ini setting and the option checked in game will enable AA on any ATi card in EQ2.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Catalyst AI is known to have some issues with AA in many situations.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>How are you setting AA exactly? The methods have changed over time and I just want to make sure.</blockquote><p>I have hardware forced AA enabled in the game client, also I have tried typing /r_aa_blit 1 to be sure.</p><p>I'm using shader 1.</p><p>This is the configuration that has always worked for me in the past.</p><p>Like I said, I have tried all kinds of different settings, it doesn't work with my hardware.</p><p><img src="http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3858/60103506.jpg" /></p><p><img src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3333/aa2lo.jpg" width="610" height="587" /></p><p><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5630/eq2000102.jpg" /></p> <p><cite>Gaige wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It works fine as long as you're using an old enough catalyst version that the option to disable catalyst ai is still in the 3d settings.</p><p>That combined with the eq2.ini setting and the option checked in game will enable AA on any ATi card in EQ2.</p></blockquote><p>No.</p>

[Gaige]

<p>Do you play in windowed mode or full-screen because AA has been broken in windowed mode since like three updates ago.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>Full screen. Sometimes I alt-tab, and it doesn't work in either case.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>So, I'm just [Removed for Content] yea?</p><p>I like ATI cards and have been using them for a long time but my next card is going to be nVidia.</p><p>It's not because ATI sucks, because they don't, but I have so many problems with it because it seems like everyone</p><p>just supports nVidia. Kinda like Linux. There's nothing wrong with it, but everyone cares about Windows, so it's just</p><p>behind the curve and I have problems with it because of the lack of mainstream support.</p>

[PanzerTank]

<p>I'm using ATI 5870 card and have shader3 enabled and I noticed Anti-Aliasing only works when when you turn off shadows...this started happening afew patches ago when they fixed the new GPU Shadows.</p>

[PanzerTank]

<p>Try it Rahat, it worked for me. I'm on EQ2x btw and been trying to get replies and help on the eq2x boards.</p>