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Today is launch day for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard's real-time sequel that's been a dozen years in the making (or waiting, at least). There is a Known Issues - Technical Support related list and a Current list of bugs on the StarCraft II Forums outlining issues with the game (thanks Big Download). Also, since there turns out to be no option within the game to activate anti-aliasing, there's a post on PC Games Hardware explaining how to turn this on in the control panel for NVIDIA graphics cards. As there is no corresponding option for ATI owners, they have word from ATI on why, saying: "third parties found that 4x AA led to a reduction in fps rendering at lower screen resolutions, which only became more noticeable at larger resolutions. After evaluating our options, our engineering team opted not to provide AA support for StarCraft II within the Catalyst Control Center, even though the competition has included AA support in their driver at launch. We are committed to making AA perform at an acceptable level before we release it to our customers. We will continue to work with Blizzard on this matter and hope to offer our customers an acceptable AA solution at a later date." On a related note, PC Perspective has an article on this topic that includes benchmarks for NVIDIA accelerators showing what sort of performance hit this entails. On a semi-related note, there is a StarCraft II Q&A with Blizzard's Rob Pardo on USATODAY.com discussing the game in general terms.
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Jul 28, 2010, 12:53 |
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Dades wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 10:31: I'm not sure why you're being so confrontational with me Oh god, I disagree with you and Im being confrontational...right.
You were the one being confrontational starting with post #32 and again at #35. The person you were replying to wasn't even posting directly at you, just at the people being overly dramatic regarding the AA feature, by being overly dramatic himself...apparently you missed the irony.
There are comparative screenshots linked in the headline that do show a difference if you don't want to listen to me If someone is having to run the game at a resolution that low, they shouldn't be running AA, so their example is ridiculous to say the least. They would be better off using their vid card power to up the resolution, not enabling AA which isn't even a supported feature. So the screenshot in the linked story I found rather humorous as an example of jaggies at ultra low resolutions. Every game is gonna have bad jaggies accentuated by large pixels at low res, that AA simply cannot fix.
I havent been able to find any high res AA comparison screenshots...likely because as I say, it's inconsequential. What I do find though is plenty of people saying that at decent to high resolutions AA is simply not needed.
To sum up what I'm reading here is that you a) agree it's not a big deal, b) think it's a big enough deal to argue about it's impact on graphics, c) think its a big deal enough to blame Blizzard on it, without actually having first-hand tech knowledge as to why it isn't an option. d) ignore the facts regarding the tech limitation when it was posted.
So yes, when you contradict yourself by saying "it's not a big deal" but continue to argue that it is very noticeable and Blizzard should be blamed for it...I call bullshit on exactly how noticeable you claim it to be @ 1920x1080. |
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Jul 27, 11:58 |
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