Question: Does the hardware used effect the quality of screenshots?
Currently, I have 6800LE video card and 1.5Gb of memory. Sometime in the near future I hope to upgrade to 7950GT and 2Gb of memory. Can I expect better quality screenshots?
Basically they tell the video card to approximate a diagonal line to remove the jaggies.
I'm running an ATI card at the moment so I'm unable to tell you exactly how to change this on your nVidia card. Look for some sort of nVidia utility to configure your card and play with the settings, or perhaps someone with an nVidia card can give you step by step instructions.
On the subject of your upgrade have you looked at tomshardware.com and newegg.com? The 7950GT appears to be a bit dated for price performance these days.
The ATI cards running on 55 nm whatever run cooler and need less power and score very well in the 7950GT price range, but nVidia has CUDA and TRS2009 texture compression is based on nVidia code. I'd be tempted to hold on untill we see what TRS2009 brings to the table.
On the subject of your upgrade have you looked at tomshardware.com and newegg.com? The 7950GT appears to be a bit dated for price performance these days.
I have a dated computer and need AGP card. I bought the 7950GT last year just haven't had the time to install it. nVidia does have a utility to change settings I will have to investigate. Thanks John.
Having both of those enabled improves the quality of the rendering a lot in my opinion. Faster graphics cards can handle higher levels of AA and AF and still maintain decent frame-rates, but even modest ones should be able to handle the minimum levels.
Trainz versions up through TRS2006 do not enable either by default, nor do they give you any way in the configuration to change them, so you will have to do it in your video card settings.
I don't know about the newer versions of Trainz -- does Classics or maybe TRS2009 use AA and AF by default? And better yet do they give us a way to change the settings in the game's configuration? That would be wonderful, if so, since many people don't know those features even exist.
Trainz versions up through TRS2006 do not enable either by default, nor do they give you any way in the configuration to change them, so you will have to do it in your video card settings.
Trainz won't do anything so change it to not application controlled and you should see a manual setting. Push them too high and the frame rates will start to drop so its a balance you have to strike between image quality and frame rates.
