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NVIDIA Quadro AA Modes

Hello all,

I was looking through the different AA modes for the quadro card in my Precision laptop. I have a limited understanding of how AA actually works. What has me curious is for example with the GTX 670 in my desktop has different labeled modes than the ones for the laptop quadro.

The modes listed for the GeForce:





Then the modes listed for the Quadro:





My main question here is this:

How do the different modes differ?

For instance the Quadro has three different 8x modes listed. One is 4xMS 4xCS and the other is 4xSS and 2xMS, then the other is just 8x MS. How do these differ and which one is better?

 

How much AA do you need?

The screen doesn't perform AA so why would I care what the screen does? I'm talking about the pixles used to fill in the steps of a jagged image. If there's no pixles left on the screen to fill in the steps then where will AA draw those pixles? It can't as far as I can tell.

 

Oblivion HDR/AA

I stated I was attempting to enable AA in NCP, I know there is no AA in-game. And no, playing at 1920x1200 does NOT eliminate the stair step effect a.k.a. jaggies.