Anti-Aliasing in SL option (!)

i would like SL to let us choose to have Anti-Aliasing ON or OFF, with additional option for 2x, 4x and 6x Anti-Aliasing.

because right now what we can do is turn in ON, but for ALL 3D applications. i would like to use Anti-Aliasing in SL only without turning the option ON in my Video card preferences and then turning it OFF when i leave SL...

AND adding a warning that Anti-Aliasing can slow down SL and you need a good CPU and video card.

thanks for replying to this post if you agree with this suggestion.

Sounds good to me. Not all systems support overriding an applications AA settings.

I use Nvidia, and that supports selecting applications to override and stuff. A few ATI cards come with stuff that does the same thing. Maybe there is some 3rd party stuff?

The last time I forced anti-aliasing on through my nvidia settings, I found that certain portions of SL froze for 1+ second at a time. I believe this was when I would alt-zoom on something... as the camera swooped over to the new focus, it'd freeze. I'm not sure if this is fixed yet.

The retail ATI preference pane will force FSAA but it hasn't been made Universal yet.

It's silly for an application not to have it anyway, if you want to tweak the graphical appearance of SL, you're going to go into SL's graphics tab.

As it is, on Mac you don't get a control panel at all unless you buy a graphics card separately (and even then it will usually just use Apple's drivers). So far as I've found NVidia cards in Macs don't get any options which means I can't force anti-aliasing.

Aha!

Enable full screen anti-aliasing using OpenGL Profiler

Works on any graphics card.

Hrm, nice find
Never thought of it really, there was a tutorial somewhere for 'permanently' attaching an OpenGL profile to an app using a simple script, damnit now I have to find it as I thought nothing of it at the time