gaming/hardware question

just wondering, does increasing the level of aa in games need more ram or does the aa only use the cpu/gpu.

if i play battlefield 2 on 4xaa then it is fine but if i go up to 6x then the game freezes up a lot as if it is loading textures out of the ram, especially at the start of maps.

i always thought the ram made no difference to aa but once the freeze-ups go away after 3- 4 minutes of running about the map, the fps is good so i cant see it being the cpu or gfx card struggling.

 

What card are you using ?

 

Asus AX800pro 256mb
1gb pc3200
A64 3800

 

try setting the details in BF2 to medium and give that a try with your aa/af settings

 

Your AA & AF settings are controlled by your graphics card. I can run Far Cry at all max game settings, 8x AA, 16x AF, image on high quality, @ between 25 - 50fps. What frame rate do you get when you run the game?

 

jonni3, it runs better with settings on medium, but i don't want medium

and pulsar, i haven't measured the fps yet but if i had to guess i would say with max details and 4xaa @ 1280x960 its average of about 40 - 60fps

with 6xaa it probably does a little lower, maybe 5 - 10fps less but that is when the freezing up problem starts.
Of course it is playable just fine on 4xaa but i just wanted to know why it began behaving like this at 6x and acting like there is not enough ram when i was pretty sure the aa was nothing to do with how much ram there was.

 

BF2 is a proper resource whore of a game, i read in a different forum it was designed with the newer 512mb cards in mind, i use a 6600GT 128 and have to have the details at medium, also the ranked servers are really laggy

 

How can I test my FPS guys??? I'm running FarCry 64bit with the auto detect settings " High" and my video card is set to default settings....AA and AF are application controlled and the image settings are set to Quality??? I have the 6600 256 PCI card.....Later

 

Try downloading 3dmark05 & 3dmark03 from futuremark.com, & if you sign up to the orb you can compare your results to others with the same specs as you have another one is aquamark, they will give your card a good workout & .... they are all free to download and sign up to....have fun

 

Thanks for the info Jonni)

 

There is a little app called Fraps that I use to measure my FPS.

Here is the link;

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3934.html

Hope this helps,

Pulsar

 

Thanks for you advice Pular) I appreciate it........