White outlines and windowed mode performance

Soundcreepy · *Last edited by Soundcreepy; 08-14-2012 at 16:36.*

First of all I'm not fully sure if any of this is driver related.

What can exactly cause the white outline around NPC's or weapons and things in certain games? At first I thought it might have something to do with anisotropic filtering optimization but that was off. Kind of annoying

http://blenderartists.org/forum/atta...1&d=1306019965 (one of the clearest examples I've found just to show what the lines look like)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/soundcr...49710500962863 (more practical i guess)

And why do certain games run better in windowed mode than full screen? Fable 3 has been the best example of that, could hardly run it at all in FS, in windowed with border-less windowed mode enabled can run it maxed no issue.

The driver I'm running is 304.79 if that matters at all.

Noisiv · **Memory**: 4GB OCZ 5-4-4-4-12

1. Antialiasing

2. Because they are badly optimized

Soundcreepy · 08-14-2012, 17:32 | posts: 153 | Location: Harvard IL

well, I guess 2 I should have guessed, however 1 I am kind of surprised by. I'd honestly rather have jaggies than those white lines. *sigh* you never can seem to have your cake and eat it too

rewt · *Last edited by rewt; 08-14-2012 at 19:49.*

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And why do certain games run better in windowed mode than full screen?

Let me guess, Windows Vista or 7?

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*sigh* you never can seem to have your cake and eat it too

Try something other than multisampling AA, e.g. supersampling or FXAA.