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Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:29:39 GMT

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

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

Allan_J_Intel1 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:08:06 GMT

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.

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

MSchm21 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:10:34 GMT

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.

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:19:12 GMT

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

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

MSchm21 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:06:25 GMT

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.

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:04:46 GMT

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

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

MSchm21 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:21:57 GMT

Post your CPU model. Arrandale does not support Antialiasing.

Sandy Bridge is the current CPU architecture with AA Support.

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:13:26 GMT

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

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

MSchm21 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:48:12 GMT

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.

Re: Anti Aliasing: Intel HD Graphics (i3 core)

idata — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:10:12 GMT

aww...

Thanks for the help though, Yups!

Atomicus