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Full Scene Anti Aliasing
Thanks to the T-Buffer engine, the
VSA-100 has the ability to perform real-time full-scene spatial anti-aliasing in
hardware, yes ... the new Voodoo 4/5 series videocards
support Full Scene Anti Aliasing (FSAA). FSAA removes the so called 'jaggies'
from your game. If you draw a straight line (under an angle) using a paint
program and you zoom in, you will discover that the line kind of looks like a stairway.
To remove this and make the line look like a line points in different colors are
added to the side of the line to make it look more like a real line.
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Anti-Aliased line - If
you draw a straight line (under an angle) using a paint program and you
zoom in, you will discover that the line looks like a stairway. To
remove this and make the line look like a line points in different colors
are added to the side of the line to make it look more like a real line. |

You eyes are actually being fooled
by letting you think that it is a straight line without the stairway effect.
FSAA comes at a big price ... and this factor is performance. In higher resolutions
the performance can drop easily 50% of your costly framerate. At this
time do not expect miracles from FSAA.

We can demonstrate FSAA perfectly,
please look at the image below. You'll notice a distinct difference between the
two images. You can use your mouse pointer to move the lens and see what FSAA
does in close-up.
For your information, FSAA
is enabled in the right Porche picture in the above image. In our performance (next
pages) tests you will notice that enabling FSAA will dramatically
influence performance, in some cases to an unplayable scenario.
Coming up - Performance tests
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