AA Mostly Not Working

[Grimes]

I've always played with Anti-Aliasing on with Lockon. The game looks much better with it running than without (obviously :D) Lately though no matter what settings I have applied in my graphics card, it just isn't working for Lockon. I've reinstalled/changed drivers several times. I even reinstalled the game, after which AA worked for a few sessions. But after a crash to desktop however, AA returned to its current state of never wanting to work.

 

I don't want to reinstall the game everytime it stops working, but seeing those jaggies once the game loads up just annoys me. Also whenever I load in I have no water texture, a simple alt-tab fixes it, but still another graphics related issue.

 

AA works in all other games.

 

I'm running Catalyst 8.1 with an x1950xtx

 

Any thoughts, would be pro.

[Kaptein_Damli]

I've always played with Anti-Aliasing on with Lockon. The game looks much better with it running than without (obviously :D) Lately though no matter what settings I have applied in my graphics card, it just isn't working for Lockon. I've reinstalled/changed drivers several times. I even reinstalled the game, after which AA worked for a few sessions. But after a crash to desktop however, AA returned to its current state of never wanting to work.

 

I don't want to reinstall the game everytime it stops working, but seeing those jaggies once the game loads up just annoys me. Also whenever I load in I have no water texture, a simple alt-tab fixes it, but still another graphics related issue.

 

AA works in all other games.

 

I'm running Catalyst 8.1 with an x1950xtx

 

Any thoughts, would be pro.

 

I have to set AA to forced on 2X on global settings, then I have set AA forced on 2X on Lock On. I have Nvidea. I set application control on the AA in global, and forced on on Lock On it will not work. You need to have it on both places. Hope this helps?

[DarkWanderer]

Any thoughts, would be pro.

Do you have heat haze turned on?

Also, try windowed mode.

[Shaman]

Yeah, heatblur in LO never worked well with AA

[Mustang]

Grimes, try using ATI Tray Tools http://www.majorgeeks.com/ATI_Tray_Tools_d4569.html

 

this is what i use, and i have never ever had any issues using this :thumbup:

[Kuky]

Hey grimes, I don't know why AA won't work in LockOn as it worked for me on that same video card (so it's not the hardware) and I used same Catalyst 8.1 at that time (so I doubt it's the graphics driver either). I also always used Heatblur enabled so that's shouldn't be it... and as far as I remember you used both AA and Heatblur enabled and it worked before so there's gotta be something else... I think it's "the game"... not exactly game engine but I think it's to much memory for the video card due to all the mods installed...

 

Here's one thing I had before... the missing water texture... that happened to me almost every time I'd play the game online... it would start working if I'd ALT/TAB out of the game and back in... but if I'd quit the mission (after getting shot) and just refly again... I'd get missing textures for meny... the chat window... I then though it's gotta be just textures not loading and I suspected too much textures in Temptextures folder (since those are not compressed into CDDS files)

 

I then used ED's CDDS utility and got any larger BMP and TGA files into CDDS (I left small files there as I don't think getting 10kb instead of 15kb would be of big deal :) )

 

I've also had a look at Rugg's terrain CDDS packs and thought since I'm using those I don't need original ones... so I started deleting any duplicate files and leaving only those I am actually using (so the game won't have to load or even "look" at them)

 

Ever since I've done this I never again got missing water texture or missing menu/chat window texture... if you can give this a try and see if it helps.