CoH 2 And Poor Performance High End Hardware, Fixes When?

Jump back to quoted post14 Dec 2013, 11:10 AMtheking10

erm what? these are methods of anti aliasing not resolution . FXAA and Supersampling have nothing to do with the screen resolution. Games played at 1920x1080 are exactly that regardless of the AA used.

Jump back to quoted post14 Dec 2013, 19:40 PMCombatMuffin

Resolution and anti-aliasing have nothing to do with each other, but they both aim to do the same through the different methods.

Resolution is just how many pixels the game wil be rendered in. Obviously the more pixels you render in, the better and sharper the image, but also the more work your GPU must perform (single most taxing work, actually).

Anti-Aliasing, no matter what kind it is, is an algorithm that grabs a pixelated edge in the image and blurs it a little bit. ome methods are faster than others, some methods are more accurate than others.

Increasing Anti-aliasing does NOT increase your resolution, you cannot create pixels out of thing air. You can, however, mimic the effects of a higher resolution.

That's why 4K monitors are so damn expensive (the cheapest is $800 and sucks, the ASUS is $2000). They laugh at 1080p resolution, giving you a LOT more pixels to work with.

Good luck with your framrate using that amount of quality in a current videocard though.

Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2013, 00:36 AMBirdKiller

Right, it's one of the techniques of anti-aliasing, but how one of AA is applied doesn't mean all other techniques do it the same way. If you've read the Nvidia article, then you should've gotten the sense that it is quite old and outdated, that there should be better ways to apply AA today.

Furthermore, that article states that SSAA doesn't increase the game's resolution either as it downsizes the supersized image back to its original resolution.

There are far better and efficient methods to apply AA now. They don't mess with having to supersize and downsize resolutions or at least not as much as SSAA does: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/31801/what-are-the-differences-between-the-different-anti-aliasing-multisampling-set

What CombatMuffin said is partially true. Most AA, specifically Multisampling and its derivatives, applied in most modern games don't resort to the brute force method that Supersampling does such that resolution and AA are somewhat independent from each other.

Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2013, 00:47 AMBirdKiller

I'm interested to know how a display that physically has 1920 * 1080 ~ 2MP can physically, hell virtually even, go up to 4.6MP to replicate 2880x1620 resolution.

Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2013, 03:45 AMCombatMuffin

very disappointed that CoH2 wasn't properly optimized. I only have the venerable 8800 GTX which is VERY old now, but I cringe at the idea of spending $1000 for a 30 fps increase, when I've seen people get higher framrates in far more eye candy games.

Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2013, 05:45 AMBudwise

The only card that is 1K is the Titan and my $350 R9 290 outperforms it in COH2. You dont have to spend 1K for high quality gaming, maybe 400ish.