Enabling FSAA

[RA]

I am running OpenArena in OpenGL mode on a Linux distro and am trying to figure out how to enable FSAA (full screen anti aliasing) in OpenArena. Is this possible?

P.S. I have an nVIdia GeForce 4400 video card.

[RA]

With nVidia GeForce cards, you can set an environment variable to enable FSAA in OpenGL mode. This will take the edge off of those "jaggies" that make the game look ugly.

From a bash script or prompt, run the following, before starting OpenArena/ioquake:
__GL_FSAA_MODE=4
export __GL_FSAA_MODE

All GeForce cards can use mode 4. You can try other modes listed below if you have a better card. Remember that higher modes, if supported, may be choppy if your resolution is too high and your card is too slow.

Quick reference of FSAA modes (and what supports them):
0:    FSAA disabled
1:    2x Bilinear Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
2:    2x Quincunx Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
3:    FSAA disabled
4:    4x Bilinear Multisampling (All GeForce cards)
5:    4x Gaussian Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
6:    2x Bilinear Multisampling by 4x Supersampling (GeForce 3 and later)
7:    4x Bilinear Multisampling by 4x Supersampling (GeForce 6 and later)
8:    4x Bilinear Multisampling by 2x Supersampling (GeForce FX and later)

Note: The full specification is listed here, and contains the specific settings for each card up to the GeForce FX. There are some modes supported that are not listed in the quick reference.

[Logan]

For my Radeon 9800 I just use the control panel to enable FSAA and FSAF over riding any settings the game has. I'm guessing the geforce series has similar settings as well. Looks and plays great at 1280X1024 res with 6X FSAA and 16X FSAF.

[dmn_clown]

With nVidia GeForce cards, you can set an environment variable to enable FSAA in OpenGL mode. This will take the edge off of those "jaggies" that make the game look ugly.

From a bash script or prompt, run the following, before starting OpenArena/ioquake:
__GL_FSAA_MODE=4
export __GL_FSAA_MODE

All GeForce cards can use mode 4. You can try other modes listed below if you have a better card. Remember that higher modes, if supported, may be choppy if your resolution is too high and your card is too slow.

Quick reference of FSAA modes (and what supports them):
0:    FSAA disabled
1:    2x Bilinear Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
2:    2x Quincunx Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
3:    FSAA disabled
4:    4x Bilinear Multisampling (All GeForce cards)
5:    4x Gaussian Multisampling (GeForce 3 and later)
6:    2x Bilinear Multisampling by 4x Supersampling (GeForce 3 and later)
7:    4x Bilinear Multisampling by 4x Supersampling (GeForce 6 and later)
8:    4x Bilinear Multisampling by 2x Supersampling (GeForce FX and later)

Note: The full specification is listed here, and contains the specific settings for each card up to the GeForce FX. There are some modes supported that are not listed in the quick reference.

You can also run nvidia-settings which already has the proper settings for your card and choose what looks good and runs smoothly for your system (Better than choosing it through Bash which if you choose wrongly could b0rk your monitor).  nvidia-settings sets up an .nvidia-settings-rc file in your ~/ directory which can be made to run when you start x.