Proof of FEAR running at max on 7600+Audigy zs

Heres the proof i felt i had to produce of FEAR running much better on my laptop when i fitted the Audigy ZS PCMCIA Card.. I was unable to get FEAR to run this smoothly at such high settings until i tried the Audigy card that DID result in improved gameplay at higher settings than i normally play on. The settings were 1024x768 with everything at max, expecpt for 2XAA and soft shadows off.

The game plays very well at 4XAA but the fps drops too close to the 25fps mark when in a huge firefight, so i leave it at 2XAA to have flawless gameplay.
The pictures below were taken when i WAS playing with 4XAA just to show the healthy FPS i was getting! (You can tell from the photos that the game is at MAX settings)
The videos were recoded at 2XAA. As some of you may know, when FRAPS is recording, the Fps falls by quite a bit during gameplay so for this reason i didnt record with 4XAA. But you can all see how smooth the game is with 2XAA even though its smoother when not being recorded!

 

Holly crap, thats amazing. I was looking at buying one of these sound cards, i really miss pounding my logitech z5500's, the input for the speakers plugged into the laptop sounds like crap. Nice screens!!

 

Thats sweet, I just bought Fear although I have not yet installed it. I hope it works out well with mine. Just wondering, what is AA? such used as 2XAA and 4XAA

 

Would you mind running FEAR's built in bench mark with and without? The low and high and average FPS should be usefull with no external programs (FRAPS) running and hitting CPU cycles.

If the outboard sound processors works the same for a laptop as a pci slot in a desktop you may see a 10%(?) increase on all around performance as oposed to using "built in" sound with a processor hit.

All of the newer dell's without the old pcmcia slots are SOL in any case.

 

Say you play at a resolution of 1024X then you will see jagged egdes. When you apply Anti aliasing it will smooth out the egdes as if you would be playing on a 1600X1200 resolution. So the higher the AA the smoother it makes the game egdes basicly.

 

To add to what madonion said, AA "blurs" the edges of objects by adding grey pixels around the edges to create a "sharper" appearance. It is not as necessary to use on higher-resolution LCDs.

Read more about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

 

That is why I don't like using AA in Fear, or any other game for that matter, much rather play at a higher resolution.