Here, components of a scene that you would not normally consider "objects"- little side details, such as blades of grass or chain-link fences - are rendered more sharply by applying a technique similar to the way ClearType makes anti-aliased text look sharper against a multi-color backdrop. The quad is essentially a square, but to keep all blades of grass and leaves on trees from looking square, selected pixels in the quad are masked out with transparency. Classic graphics processors don't anti-alias that intersection or that edge," said Tamasi, "which is why if you look in Far Cry or any number of games that go [outdoors], and you look at the grass or leaves or at a chain-link fence in Half-Life 2, when you get close to it, the edges have a jagged shape to it. ...

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Nvidia Goes For Four: Quad SLI Gaming Dissected. nvidia goes for four uk. An SLI setup can employ four graphics processors, which results in the most powerful 3D gaming solution available. But at the same time, Quad SLI requires an equally powerful ...

Another title that uses OpenEXR HDR, the game was benchmarked in the worst case scenario with grass distance set on full to see how the cards would handle it. While we turned grass to maximum for this benchmark, I wouldn't recommend that setting for game play as it would probably be more fun with it off....

In both comparisons, look at the pattern of the grass on the green, and the text on the scoreboard for clues to see the differences in quality of the files. Again, keep an eye on the scoreboard and the smudgy grass on the green....

Pay particular attention to the pattern of the grass on the green and the text on the scoreboard for clues to differences in image quality. Again, keep an eye on the scoreboard and the smudgy grass on the green.) But when you consider DivX-HD's 5X faster encode time and its approximately 50% smaller file size vs....

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