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Miele · 05-28-2007, 03:45 AM

Those seem horribly low resolution screenshots: at which resolution are you playing and on what monitor size?
Anyway disable the bloom and atmopsheric effects from in game option panel. AA and bloom are not supported together, they use the same buffer it seems, but Bloom should take precedence if you activate them both.

Now check your eq2.ini file: if there is a line saying: "r_aa_blit 1" (without the quotes), it means you have the possibility to activate AA and AF through the video card control panel. It's not there by default, so you can try to remove it. If it's not there, what you set in the video card cp has no effect at all and "application controlled" will not activate anything in EQ2.

Disable Catalyst A.I. in the ATI control panel, it messes things up and if it's activated, AA and AF will not work, no matter what.

Try to reset the graphic settings to "default" in game, Alt+O -> Default button (on the bottom) -> Accept.
You'll have to set them one by one again (or use on of the presets).

One thing which is quite important, I mention it because I don't know your level of knowledge about drivers and stuff: after uninstalling the nvidia driver, run "Driver cleaner" (you can google for it), reboot and then install the new ATI drivers. I strongly suggest the ATI catalyst version 7.3 or previous ones, the 7.4 sucks badly in EQ2, at least if you have WinXP. With the 7.4 AA and AF were not working at all, no matter the settings.

EDIT: I have an ATI 1950Pro 512 Mb Ram, with and without AA, I never had similar problems. Before this I used a X1300 256Mb Ram.

05-28-2007, 03:45 AM	#453 (permalink)
Miele Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 706	Those seem horribly low resolution screenshots: at which resolution are you playing and on what monitor size? Anyway disable the bloom and atmopsheric effects from in game option panel. AA and bloom are not supported together, they use the same buffer it seems, but Bloom should take precedence if you activate them both. Now check your eq2.ini file: if there is a line saying: "r_aa_blit 1" (without the quotes), it means you have the possibility to activate AA and AF through the video card control panel. It's not there by default, so you can try to remove it. If it's not there, what you set in the video card cp has no effect at all and "application controlled" will not activate anything in EQ2. Disable Catalyst A.I. in the ATI control panel, it messes things up and if it's activated, AA and AF will not work, no matter what. Try to reset the graphic settings to "default" in game, Alt+O -> Default button (on the bottom) -> Accept. You'll have to set them one by one again (or use on of the presets). One thing which is quite important, I mention it because I don't know your level of knowledge about drivers and stuff: after uninstalling the nvidia driver, run "Driver cleaner" (you can google for it), reboot and then install the new ATI drivers. I strongly suggest the ATI catalyst version 7.3 or previous ones, the 7.4 sucks badly in EQ2, at least if you have WinXP. With the 7.4 AA and AF were not working at all, no matter the settings. EDIT: I have an ATI 1950Pro 512 Mb Ram, with and without AA, I never had similar problems. Before this I used a X1300 256Mb Ram. __________________ A dire bugie si va all'inferno, a dire cagate si va affanculo. Last edited by Miele : 05-28-2007 at 03:48 AM.