Part 4: Rendering Quality, New Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering Modes
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Amazing unanimity, don't you agree? Except the GF7800 rendered the foliage differently — the effect of a different MIP mapping algorithm. Besides, you may notice a noise strip on the sand on the first two screenshots from the GF7800, taken in Quality mode instead of High Quality.
We would risk stating that the transparent texture AA quality in the X1800 and the GF7800 is identical in this scene.
But the first surprise is hidden in this very scene: we noticed no special signs of the new anisotropic filtering algorithm. Perhaps the sand under a palm shadow on the left has become more detailed. Will you notice this difference in a game, not when you compare two static screenshots? We doubt it very much...
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