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Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata
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A few days ago I got a new laptop, an HP Pavilion g6, which has an i3 processor.

It seemed much better than my old laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420, intel pentium dual, more than 3 years old). It is better in many ways, until I played some games on my new laptop.

The game I played was Runescape, which isn't really a game with great graphics (its played in the browser and runs on Java), so I assumed my new laptop would deliever great (or even better) performance.

However, I was confused when I changed the graphics setting for Anti-Aliasing from 'none' to '4x' (on Open GL). I noticed absolutely no difference. It turns out, after I poked around on the Runescape forums, that this problem happens to everyone with Intel HD Graphics who plays Runescape.

My old inspiron 1420 graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, and it could do anti-aliasing on Runescape. It feels like I'm having a downgraded gaming experience on this new laptop, when I expected an upgraded experience.

Is there any way to somehow activate anti aliasing? Or is there a way to update the i3 it to make it possible?

Thanks,

Atomicus

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Allan_J_Intel1
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Hi there!

 

Antializing is a feature that is not supported on the Intel graphics, so, this feature cannot be enabled through driver update.

See the list of tested games for your graphics controller at:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-012643.htm?wapkw=%28game+compatibility%29 http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-012643.htm?wapkw=%28game+compatibility%29

Thanks

Allan.

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MSchm21
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You are wrong Allan. 4xMSAA is supported with Sandy Bridge graphics unit. Dx10.1 requires 4xMSAA support. But it's too slow in most games. In some games 2xAA is playable.

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idata
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But will I ever be able to enable Anti-Aliasing on my current card, or will I be stuck with this antialiasing inability?

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MSchm21
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Do you have a Sandy Bridge or Arrandale Notebook? Have you tried newest driver 2509 and 2xAA? If it doesn't work I'm afraid there is nothing you can do for now.

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idata
Employee
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What's "Sandy Bridge"? How can I find out if my i3 processor is a "sandy bridge" or whatever?

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MSchm21
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Post your CPU model. Arrandale does not support Antialiasing.

Sandy Bridge is the current CPU architecture with AA Support.

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idata
Employee
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Ok.

Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M370 @2.4GHz

If that isn't 'sandy bridge', will there ever be an oppurtunity to download an update for it, or is it only solvable by new hardware?

Thanks for your help, Yups,

Atomicus

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MSchm21
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This is Arrandale, that is the problem. It does not support Antialiasing. Also it's pretty sure there will no update available in the future.

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idata
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aww...

Thanks for the help though, Yups!

Atomicus

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