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FSAA Performance with Thunderbird
June 15, 2000   Brandon Sandman Bell > [View My Other Articles]
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All screenshots were taken on a Voodoo5 5500 at 800x600 resolution. This page may take some time to load depending on your connection, but if you're a hardcore CS player (or just a little curious about it) you've gotta see the 4X screenshots!

Counterstrike: FSAA disabled

FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ I'm going in! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
I'm going in!
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Ugly jaggies @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Ugly jaggies
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ That looks painful @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
That looks painful
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Owned! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Owned!
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Firefight @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Firefight
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ More jaggies @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
More jaggies

Counterstrike (and Half-Life in general) is a game that really benefits from FSAA. The screenshots only offer a glimpse at just how sweet Counterstrike can look with FSAA enabled, check them out:

Counterstrike: 2X FSAA

FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Smoother now @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Smoother now
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Attack! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Attack!
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ 2X is much better @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
2X is much better
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ GX-Azazel owned somebody! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
GX-Azazel owned somebody!
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Still a few jaggies @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Still a few jaggies
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Hurry up! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Hurry up!

2X FSAA offers a marginal improvement over the standard, jagged graphics in Counterstrike. As the screenshots show, the jaggies don't disappear, but they're smoothed out fairly well. The performance hit is pretty insignificant as well.

Counterstrike: 4X FSAA

FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Headache @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Headache
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Going in for the kill @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Going in for the kill
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Classic ambush @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Classic ambush
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ 4X looks so sweet! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
4X looks so sweet!
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Hallway of death @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Hallway of death
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Mmm...firepower @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Mmm...firepower
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ Lookin' good @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
Lookin' good
FSAA Performance with Thunderbird [ VIP escapes! @ 640 x 480 ] > View Full-Size in another window.
VIP escapes!

Once you've experienced 4X FSAA in Counterstrike, it's really hard to go back to anything less. The framerates ranged from around 26-50fps, with the average being somewhere in the mid-thirties. Unlike Quake3, where 100fps is ideal, 40-70fps is a pretty good sweet spot for Counterstrike.

The game was very playable at 800x600 under our test conditions, (on a Pentium III 700MHz system) but for competitive play 640x480 would probably be more ideal.

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