What the GeForceAASet utility does and what i doesn't.
Antialiasing is a not-so-simple matter. The nVidia video driver manages the Antialiasing feature without my intervention. I only tell the video driver a hint about what quality it should use (the same effect as setting AA quality in the the video driver's advanced properties in the display control panel). The advantage of GeForceAASet is speed and confort. Its a lot easier to play with Antialias settings with GeForceAASet.
Check some things that the nVidia video driver does with AA (I have no control over this):
-In 32MB cards, AA is internally disabled in high resolutions (I think is at 1024x768x32bit color and higher, and 1280x960x16bit color and higher).
-In 64MB cards, AA works at higher resolutions, but there's still a limit.
-Performance suffers a lot when enabling AA (this explains your 3D Mark results).
-The higher the AA Quality, the slower the card will go.
-The higher the AA Quality, the better he games will look.
-Not all games work with AA enabled. NVidia has done a remarkable job with its products, but in the PC world, where there are so many diferent posible hardware and software scenarios, 100% compatibility is usually not posible.
-Again, performance suffers a lot. A 2x2 AA quality setting means your card is rendering your game internally at double the horizontal resolution AND double the vertical resolution, which means it renders 4 times the pixels it would render without antialiasing!
-The GeForce2 MX and the Geforce SDR are great cards. The GeForce2 MX is almost a GeForce2 GTS. *BUT*, their limited fillrate don't make them very good card for Antialiasing, so try it having this in mind.
-Sorted from best to worst for Antialiasing, nvidia AA-capable cards rank:
-Geforce2 GTS Ultra (64MB) (ideal for AA!!!, a hellish card)
-Geforce2 GTS 64MB (Great for AA!!)
-Geforce2 GTS 32MB (the one I have, Great for AA!)
-Geforce DDR 64MB (should work ok with AA, use low res for max performance)
-Geforce DDR 32MB (should work ok with AA, use low res for max performance)
-Geforce2 MX (AA usable in very low resolutions, like 640x480x16bit)
-Geforce SDR (AA almost unusable, AA not recomended)
Again, MY APP ONLY TELLS WHAT KIND OF AA TO USE!. The driver then decides and behaves like it's described above. Because of this, I don't have control on how games or applications will behave with Antialias on or off, only I can tell the driver a hint about how to use Antialiasing, which is equivalent to using the own driver's setting control panel, but GeForce AA Set makes playing with AA settings a very easy thing.
GeForceAASet has no kind of support from nVidia or anybody else, at least not yet.
Well, enjoy your card, if it's nvidia it rulez (specially GeForce cards, they absolutelly rule, for now at least).
