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Interesting and somewhat more quantitative take on this here:
http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweak-guide
(jump to the "FXAA & Water" section; source is Nvidia, so it's geared towards their stuff, but it applies to AMD as well)
As with so many things, there are tradeoffs, and the cost/value of those tradeoffs will vary from person to person. Personally, in the middle of the action and at high resolution I'm hard-pressed to notice a difference between MSAA, FXAA, and nothing.
That said, I always turn one of them on.
Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)
Anti-aliasing has an intimidating name, but what it does for our computer displays is rather fundamental. Think of it this way -- a line has infinite resolution, but our digital displays do not. So when we "snap" a line to the pixel grid on our display, we can compensate by imagineering partial ...
At the end of the video, at the pause between "to find the real story" and "stay tuned", all I could think of for one brief moment was that a website plug would be popping up any second. Ah, progress.
FLASHBACK! True Stories From Famous People
When I was a dorky teenager, I was sort of thrust into the spotlight by Stand By Me and Star Trek. I've written before about how weird the whole thing was, and how uncomfortable a lot of the attention made me, but it wasn't all bad; I got to do some cool things, and meet some cool people as a re...
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