Batman: Arkham Asylum Enables AA Only on NVIDIA Hardware on PCs

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Enables AA Only on NVIDIA Hardware on PCs

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Anti-Aliasing has been one of the most basic image-quality enhancements available in today's games. PC graphics hardware manufacturers regard it as more of an industry standard, and game developers echo with them, by integrating anti-aliasing (AA) features in the game, as part of its engine. This allows the game to selectively implement AA in parts of the 3D scene, so even as the overall image quality of the scene is improved, so is performance, by making sure that not every object in the scene is given AA. It seems that in one of the most well marketed games of the year, Batman: Arkham Asylum, doesn't like to work with ATI Radeon graphics cards when it comes to its in-game AA implementation.

Developed under NVIDIA's The Way it's Meant to be Played program, and featuring NVIDIA's PhysX technology, the game's launcher disables in-game AA when it detects AMD's ATI Radeon graphics hardware. AMD's Ian McNaughton in his recent BLOG: ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver - Everything you want to know and why you should care | AMD at Play said that they had confirmed this by an experiment where they ran ATI Radeon hardware under changed device IDs. Says McNaughton: "Additionally, the in-game AA option was removed when ATI cards are detected. We were able to confirm this by changing the ids of ATI graphics cards in the Batman demo. By tricking the application, we were able to get in-game AA option where our performance was significantly enhanced." He further adds that the option is not available for the retail game as there is a secure-rom.

With no in-game AA available to ATI Radeon users, although the features do technically work on ATI Radeon hardware, the only way AA can be used is by forcing it in Catalyst Control Center. This causes the driver to use AA on every 3D object in the scene, reducing performance, compared to if the game's in-game AA engine is used. "To fairly benchmark this application, please turn off all AA to assess the performance of the respective graphics cards. Also, we should point out that even at 2560×1600 with 4x AA and 8x AF we are still in the highly playable territory," McNaughton adds. Choose with your wallets.

Sad.. cheap tricks nvidia :/ tsk tsk, this is even worst then a game before if "atixxx" processes is detected, a lower score/fps is given, if no "atixxx" is detected, higher score..

Figured..

[Fern]

NVidia : The Way Its Meant To Be Paid.

Nvidia : The Way Its Meant To Be Faked

NVidia : The way its meant to be Anti Aliased. (reference to arkham asylum)

asa ko ani mu believe...

im the guy who beleives the poster... join the army and stuffs like that

[dcoi_wot]

nindot ni na duwa

[Sasori]

@dcoi_wot

^ bai wrong post man ka. para cebu pctech na?

[thermaltake]

its meant to paid..lol...haha

[limes]

what the hell dili ra cguro ni sa kani na game im pretty sure sa kasagarang mga naay nvidia supported games naay bias. hmmpf mapugos ko ani green teem balik. tsk3x bad strategy

[Merman]

hahah g ahak man ka fern lol. ati dyud ai hehehe, red army dyud lols, soon nvidia will follow 3dfx footsteps, may unta dli qq

[Fern]

hahah g ahak man ka fern lol. ati dyud ai hehehe, red army dyud lols, soon nvidia will follow 3dfx footsteps, may unta dli qq

lolz...balimbing ko bai

kung asa nindot adto ko lolz....

Pink team ko

[Envy 64Ht]

na dan! paita sad aning nvidia uy.

[Kenshiro]

Too much money spent on bribing game developers. and not enough to improve the engeneering quality of their cards.