How to Smooth the Pixel Edges Of Everything ?

We don't use resource hogging tertiary applications. The nVidia control panel can be integrated with the windows interface.

...Anisotropic Filtering not Antialiasing. I really wish it was AA though. The only way I've been able to get rid of the jaggies since Windlight is to set AA options on my SLI hardware. I use SLI8x and the jaggies go away but I take a big frame rate hit. Any AA setting will knock down your FPS though. You just have to decide how smooth you want the edges to be. I just updated my video cards from dual 7600 series to 8800 series so I'm still learning how to tweak the options.

In the RC, there's both a checkbox for anisotropic filtering, *and* a dropdown to choose antialiasing (from 2x to 16x), so you don't have to fiddle with the driver settings.
Since it is hardware options, it may vary depending on what card you have and what the driver exposes, though. -I don't know if the dialog box is that clever.

Some cards may even have fill rate enough that you can use AA without a performance hit. It depends on where your performance bottleneck is.

I have AA set 4x everything looks great, unfortunately when an av is more than about 10m away it goes jaggy with a black keyline around it. I can't set AA higher because the framerate drops to the point where SL is unusable. Actually even setting AA to 2x helps alot but as mentioned above you need the RC viewer not the stable client.

PS. It's usually ALT + Print Screen for a screengrab on a PC just hitting Print Screen does nothing - at least it has never done anything for me.

PPS. If you *really* want some fun with your keyboard press caps lock, scroll lock and num lock repeatedly as this will create a strobing effect with the led indicators, another tip for amusing yourself while waiting for SL to come back online (try it in the dark for maximum effect)

PPS. Try dropping your screen resolution a bit you may be able to ramp up the sliders then

Have you tried sitting farther back from your monitor? I find that if I sit at least two feet, or a bit more, from the screen, the individual pixels are no longer visible.

Removing your spectacles has a similar effect

That sounds like the avatar imposters, where distant avatars are rendered as "cardboard cutouts", billboard-style, rather than as fully polygonal figures. It's a tradeoff between performance and the somewhat jagged/jerky imposters. You should be able to tweak this, or even disable it completely in the preferences.

Oh cool

Learn something new every day thanks Tali