Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (Max settings, 1024x768 /
32bit)
Performance - Balanced NoAA-NoAF / NoAA-8AF
2AA-NoAF / 2AA-2AF
2AA-4AF / 2AA-8AF
4AA-NoAF / 4AA-2AF
4AA-4AF / 4AA-8AF
Performance - Aggressive NoAA-NoAF / NoAA-8AF
2AA-NoAF / 2AA-2AF
2AA-4AF / 2AA-8AF
4AA-NoAF / 4AA-2AF
4AA-4AF / 4AA-8AF
Regardless my earlier gripes, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is
a great racing game (though it gets boring after a while) with
good graphics and outdoor environment. During our image quality
experiments, we have tested the game at max settings (performance
tests were done with medium settings). I wasn't very fond with
how NFS applied different Image Enhancing Modes. I'm hoping it's
a game-related problem. If you look at the following comparisons,
you'll notice not much of a difference especially when applying
Anisotropic filtering. Let that be at level 2 or 8, it doesn't
seem to affect the quality, although the performance decreases
by quite a few frames.
Take a look at the Antialiasing modes, it's hard to notice a
difference between NoAA and 2xAA The difference is more visible
in the game itself. Sometimes screenshots do not provide for 100%
of details. Now when we enabled 4X Antialiasing things changed
drasticly, so did the performance heh. FPS dropped by nearly 100%.
The game was not playable at all. The average FPS was ~15 (But
dang! It looked good!).
Despite the above issues, overall image quality was pretty good
(even in Aggressive Mode). I haven't noticed any texture/screen
curruptions when using Detonator 42.86 driver set. The biggest
difference in level 2 Antialiasing mode will be the NoAA-NoAF
/ NoAA-8AF which gives a good IQ with acceptable performance.
