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Hambone Notebook Consultant

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whats the best looking texture filtering option. Anisotropic, bilinear, or trilinear?

to me it seems like Anisotropic makes the game look like PC games and Bilinear and Trilinear looks more like Xbox 360 games.

which of those are the best?

Hambone, Jul 19, 2007

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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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anisotropic filtering is more advanced than the other filtering methods

it also has the highest computational cost.

i believe the xbox 360 does not use anisotropic filtering, although it can dramatically increase the quality of textures, especially when not looking at a texture head on, so you should definitely use anisotropic filtering on the pc when you are able if it doesn't interfere with performance in an unacceptable way.

masterchef341, Jul 19, 2007

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Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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Yeah it depends if you want better picture quality or better performance

From the Call of Duty 2 tweak guide.

Texture Filter: The options here are Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic. These are filtering modes which affect the way textures (the 2D surfaces of all 3D objects) appear in the game - especially how crisp surface textures look as they fade into the distance. Read my Gamer's Graphics & Display Settings Guide for more details and graphical examples. Basically Bilinear is the simplest method of texture filtering, and provides the best performance. Trilinear improves image quality but is slightly slower. Anisotropic will have a noticeable impact on performance, but provides the best texture image quality. Note that if you select Anisotropic here, the actual level of Anisotropic Filtering (AF) is automatically set to 8x AF by the game, so it can give a noticeable performance hit, especially on lower end graphics cards. To manually adjust the level of Anisotropic Filtering, see the r_anisotropy command in the Advanced Tweaking section.

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http://www.tweakguides.com/COD2_5.html

Kdawgca, Jul 19, 2007

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I think, trilinear filtering is enough. I don't see a huge difference between trilinear an 2x or 4x AF, but the latter costs a lot of Performance. I use 2x AA, more is also wasted performance to me... But if your machine can handle it easily, you can use higher settings. It sure won't make the quality worse.

Greets

Tobi1982, Jul 19, 2007

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