On StarCraft II Anti-aliasing [Jul 27, 2010, 10:33 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
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.
Krovven wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 04:45:
To Dades that says he can see a big difference enabling and disabling AA...I call bullshit. Pretty sure he is just saying that because there is no way for anyone to argue what he claims to see.
I'm not sure why you're being so confrontational with me, I didn't kick your dog or something. I said I saw a difference, I said its noticeable but not game defining and that I didn't think it was a big deal. There is no way to prove that you are telling the truth either. You also seem misinformed about how AA works with lower and higher resolutions. There are comparative screenshots linked in the headline that do show a difference if you don't want to listen to me, I don't really care. I'm not the only person here to claim that or something. I can see the difference between 30 and 60fps, if you can't does that make you a liar? Me? Maybe people just see things differently because we all have different levels of perception, eye sight and different hardware.
There are spots in the game where I couldn't notice it at all and there are times when its very noticeable. I do think Starcraft 2 is a fantastic game and decent looking without AA, this was never a deal breaker for me
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