Refresh rates, anti aliasing and anisotropic

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taylormsj

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Is a higher refresh rate good or bad , does it increase performance and is it noticeable.

Also what is anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering and what is a good setting for it to be on in games, is increase in performance noticable
 
Refresh rate will not decrease performance, however having a low refresh rate will make your eyes tired after looking at the screen for a while. Refresh rate controls how many times your screen refreshes.
AA and AS on the other hand DOES affect performance. AA makes jagged lines smooth and AS draws distances more clearly when you have it on. These are very noticeable, especially when you compare 8X AA to no AA.
 
The higher the refresh rate the better. On CRT's it makes a huge difference, anything lower then 65Hz causes strain on the eyes and can cause dizziness, and the higher the refresh rate the less strain there is on your eyes, and the smoother things look.

AA makes a big difference in quality, especially at lower resolutions. Elite gave a good explanation of this. But having AA on will decrease performance pretty drastically.
 
You only have a 7600GT, so it's not capable of playing games with those settings on highest. I would set AA to 2x, which gives you the benefit of AA without the performance hit of 6x. What resolution are you running anyways?
 
i have resolution at 1280 by 1024, bilinear filtering no AA , direct x 9 and all texture things on extra is what i usually have and i get about 50 fps which is fine or if i change to direct x 7 i get 130 fps.
But is i ad AA and AS the fps goes way down, understandably a sit is a cheap card
 
I would set AA to either 1x or 2x (whatever is the lowest), turn AF Filtering on, and set the graphics to medium. You will notice quite an improvement in the graphics.
 
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So i kept the resolution the same and refresh rate, turn on anisotropic and AA x2, turn settings to high instead of extra, direct x 9 - graphics were realy nice but only 30 fps, so i turn DX9 to DX 7 and i got 100 fps and the graphics look much smoother and nicer - i would not have thought turning on AA and AS while turning down texture quality would have given me better graphical but it does - thanks omega
 
If it looks good go with it, I have really tried to see the difference but anything over 30fps and stays there or above looks good to me, all those people who insist they have to have 100 fps in order to play are full of sh*t, I don't even think the human eye can differentiate anything over 25 or so, I think, not so sure, it is a lot less than most think.
 
The big thing here is the filtering. Bilinear is horrible.

Since 30fps is a bit low, try this. Set AA to off, turn on AF Filtering, and set the other settings to medium/high. When AA is off it should help alot, and the AF filtering makes it look A LOT better.
 
when i turn everything on its highest posiblle settings and have higest AA and AS i can get 80 fps + which is good - the only thing i can increase is direct x but with DX 9 i only get 30 fps so ill stick with dx 7
 
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