{"id":20560,"date":"2010-09-15T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2010-09-15T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:14:16","slug":"batman-game-of-the-year-edition-supports-in-game-anti-alising-for-radeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/batman-game-of-the-year-edition-supports-in-game-anti-alising-for-radeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman Game of the Year edition supports in-game Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) for Radeons"},"content":{"rendered":"

We polled our own forum<\/a> and did a bit of quick checking around when we realized that Batman: Arkham Asylum “<\/em>Game of the Year” <\/em>(GotY) <\/em> edition supports in-game anti-aliasing (MSAA) for Radeons.\u00a0 Evidently this isn’t generally known nor has it been tested widely.\u00a0\u00a0 So, we plan to remedy this in a future short ABT article reviewing the game.<\/p>\n

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This added in-game MSAA support for Radeons came to our attention after we published our Introducing Galaxy\u2019s GTS 450 SuperOverclock<\/a> review and especially page 19 that benchmarked Batman: Arkham Asylum.<\/em> As we pointed out, Batman: Arkham Asylum <\/em>uses a highly modified version of the Unreal Engine 3 that does not support AA natively but must be added in and supported by the game\u2019s developer.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately we cannot compare Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/em> using our GeForce exactly against the Radeon with AA enabled on both cards – on the regular game.\u00a0 The reason is that we need to set anti-aliasing in the ATI control panel to use it at all with our AMD Radeon video cards. Of course, if we do that, we will get a higher performance penalty with this \u201cbrute force\u201d AA enhancement than we will with a comparable Nvidia video card as the GeForce is optimized to run with AA in-game by the developer.<\/p>\n

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However, AMD’s own press deck for HD 5770 points this out:<\/p>\n

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<\/em>Batman Arkham Asylum debuted on PC in September of 2009 and received favorable reviews. Following up on that success, a \u201cGame of the Year Edition\u201d version of the game was released in early 2010. This version of the game added new maps and built-in support for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) with ATI Radeon products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the claim from their own testing:<\/p>\n

\"BatmanGotY-MSAA_Radeon\"<\/a>Fifteen percent performance improvement is a big deal and we find this pretty interesting so we plan to test this out for ourselves when we acquire a “Game of the Year Edition” of Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/em>.\u00a0 We will then move it from speculation into “tested” and in future we will only use the GotY <\/em>edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/em> for benching.\u00a0 We also are going to be testing Eyefinity vs. Surround shortly; we have a massive article coming up on HD 5870 architecture including CrossFire scaling, and we will keep you continually updated on the ever-changing graphics front.<\/p>\n

Happy gaming!<\/p>\n

Mark Poppin<\/p>\n

ABT Senior Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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