Has anyone ever got AA to work with FF7PC on ATI?

[The Faceless Rebel]

Hi, I have a Radeon 9800 Pro and it looks fine using any settings of Anisotropic with no AA. However, when I turn on AA it gets those infamous gridlines. I notice there is a tweak to make Nvidia work with AA (sort of), is there any way to make ATI work with AA in FF7PC? Thanks!

[bulk_4me]

I am using an ATI. Try to put your OpengGL/DirectX settings to "Faster" instead of "Quality".

[Zack]

I don't think FF7 works well with AA and ATI cards. Some people have had a varying level of success though, see http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=3439

[The Faceless Rebel]

Yes it looks very nice in battles, it works, I've tried it. However I was wondering if anyone has made it work anywhere other than the world map and the battles without the gridlines.

[bulk_4me]

Read my post above, that's all you need.

[The Faceless Rebel]

I don't understand what you mean by 'Faster' instead of 'Quality'...which setting? Aniso? The general D3D slider? And I don't see 'Faster', I see 'High Performance', 'Performance', 'Quality', and 'High Quality', which one do you mean?

[Chesso]

Faster meaning for better performance and less image quality. In my opinion it look's no different at all and i supposedly get a performance gain out of it so why not???

3DMark 01 SE showed a slight improvement in score after setting high performance off for everything in D3D and OpenGL. This is coming from someone who doesn't see a difference between 680x400(or whatever) and 1024x768 though.

[bulk_4me]

When you turn High Performance on the grids magically disappear.

[Marc]

that's because performance disables AA and AF altogether.  hence no gridlines

[Chesso]

Unless yo use manual settings and leave one or both on  

[The Faceless Rebel]

Ummmmm, and if you leave AA on, the gridlines magically reappear!

So, does anyone who understands my question have any suggestions?

[Chesso]

Well apperently this is the affect Anti Aliasing has on FF7 so obviously it isn't going to work. So leave it alone lol.

[bulk_4me]

Ummmmm, and if you leave AA on, the gridlines magically reappear!

So, does anyone who understands my question have any suggestions?

Try it first, post later. Ultimately go and find your own solution.

[svennis]

no offense bulk_4me, but he was right when he said that he want answers from people who understand his questions, he asked a way to get AA and AF to work with Radeon cards, not a way to make the gridlines disappear by turning AA and AF off, you could simply keep it on quality and remove AA and AF of you wanted that, also i have a ATI card on my other PC, i never found a way to get the gridlines to completely disappear, but i suggest you try changing some things in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - Square Soft, inc - Final Fantasy VII - 1.00 - Graphics // Mode (mine is currently set to 2), but try changing that to other numbers, and to the others, yes this only changes the mode which is set to Riva or TNT. but somehow mine worked when i changed it manually.
Also to run registry, Run - Regedit
good luck trying that out.

[sephiroth266]

I got it working on an ATI card just install direct X 9.0 if already have it make sure u have all your pc graphic settings at max.

[EmperorSteele]

You could try the Saint's high-res patch; I beleive he's gotten aa working with radeon cards:

http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=5327

Just make sure both your card AND monitor can support a resolution of 1280 x 960 =)