1920x1200 & AA

Here is a question for anyone who games at 1920x1200 on their notebook -- does gaming at such high resolutions on a 17" screen essentially make software AA in games mostly pointless?

 

In my opinion, no. Your mileage may vary. But I'd say you need a much higher resolution to make AA unnecessary.

Of course, it's less necessary than if you ran at, say, 1024 on a 17" screen, but it's still not ideal.

 

Not pointless, but much less needed.

FWIW, 1900X1200 and no AA looks much better to me that low resolutions and 4XAA.

 

I have a screen at that resolution, and although running AA gets rid of the jaggies, they're so tiny that it really isn't enough of a difference to justify the performance drop that I get in newer games. Older games, sure, turn it up to AAx8 and play "find the jagged edge", you won't. Definitely looks better at native res with no AA than a lower rez and AAX2 or X4

 

I agree with Tony A . Based on the quality on the 1920 without AA and with AA,I`d say that a 2x shows improvement over the non AA ones.
still, I game on 1920 only games before 2005.Newer ones thrash my 7950GTX...

 

Hey I don't mean to derail the thread but I had a quick question for you guys with 1920x1200. If a certain game isn't cooperating with that res or simply doesn't offer support that high, do you find lowering your displayed res (either desktop res or within the game) works out alright? As in the image looks ok and isn't distorted or warped, stretched or squished etc. My desktops monitor requires 1440x900 and when I lower the desktop res it looks rather poor, however I can change res within a game, especially if I'm playing in windowed mode. The only bad part about this is the desktop you can see bordering the game window.

 

the image will scale,AA reduces jagged edges.now , if you have 1440 res max,the desktop should sit on that res for the best desktop image.gaming can do with lower resolutions,since the GPUs will scale the images nicely,and paired with AA will look nice even on lower res.

 

Newer games, I try to just push out 1920x1200 with max graphics, and if it still gets over 60fps I'll try AA, but it relly isn't neccisary when the res is so high.

Older games like HL2, oh yea, I run that at 1920x1200 max settings with 4xMSAA. runs like a charm, and finding jaggies is impossible!

 

Thanks for the replies! I've been eyeing up a Eurocom M570RU with the 1920x1200/8800GTX combo . . . I have to say I was completely surprised by their pricing . . . I thought systems with 8800GTX were going to be outrageously expensive. Now I think I might actually go that route.

 

Resolution in and of itself is a meaningless metric by which to measure the necessity of AA. Pixel pitch (AKA Dots Per Inch) is the only meaningful metric. 1920x1200 on a 17" screen is a very high pixel pitch. AA would be far less necessary here than with a 17" widescreen and a 1280x800 native resolution.

 

Yes I am aware of that, hence the question running this resolution on a 17" screen

 

I`m running a 17` screen at 1920x1200. I`ts nice enough for me.

 

Well, as I said that is a very high pixel pitch. The need for AA in that situation should be minimal. AF will be more important.

 

Alright, thanks dude.