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the CM storm SF 17 uses a massive 18 centimeter fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to learn more all right guys before we get started if you're not entirely sure what anti-aliasing is either click here or open up a new tab to check out Linus's video on anti-aliasing and he can explain everything about it if you do know what anti-aliasing is let's move on to down sampling down sampling or more properly known as ordered grid super sampling anti-aliasing rog ssa for short or how linus likes to call it original gangster SS AAA is the effect of utilizing your GPUs power to render an image at a higher resolution than your monitor is capable of displaying than having it rescale that image to the native resolution of your monitor instead of just rendering the edges of polygons at a higher resolution like some other anti-aliasing solutions this solution is rendering everything at a higher resolution all of the time which makes your game look great but it's incredibly inefficient at the same time compared to traditional AAA solutions so if it's that inefficient why do it well the main reason that I have is that sometimes a game is released that doesn't have a options or maybe just an on-off switch which does something these options lacking games are usually crappy console ports and the enthusiasts like us demand more so OD SS AAA is our solution to force our own AAA into the game effectively doing the developers job for them and making it look better with the sacrifice of a little bit of fps but why wouldn't you simply force AAA through the driver you ask well this doesn't always work and even though it usually will work it may not be enough anti-aliasing for you and if you have the extra horsepower you may as well apply it speaking of extra horsepower you can mix so GSS AAA with other types of AAA so whether or not you're injecting AAA or if the game supports different types you can run those different types alongside OGS SA or down sampling to get a great experience of your game this is mostly tuned in my opinion to older games that your PC would traditionally be able to run with even Really Trying now you can throw a bunch of stuff at it make it a little bit harder for your PC to run but then it get a great visual experience out of the game I'd like to thank a few people first off taboo burn from the Linus tech tips forums for making a thread about this and making us realize that we should probably make a video about it then next up is neogaf scorer key who created an amazingly simple and very detailed guide for NVIDIA users and able to do down sampling over on goo-goo 3ds forums black zero also created an awesome guide for AMD users thank all of you guys for making this possible and everybody if you're wondering how to do this please follow a link below this video to our forum where you can find taboo burns posts you can find links there to Corky and black zeros posts you can get detailed information whether or not you're in Nvidia or AMD user this video will focus on the solution for NVIDIA users this is because of how ghetto and broken the AMD solution actually is that being said if you're an AMD user and you're interested in doing this feel free to click on the link in the description below which will take you to tab of Burns Post which will take you over to the forum where black zero has a post on guru 3d which you can follow and try this out for yourself if AMD had a stable and in driver solution we would have been happy to include them in this video as well for this guide we'll be using Windows 7 just a heads up to users for Windows 8 and 8.1 it may not be a hundred percent stable but you'll probably be fine so just continue along and I wouldn't worry too much about it also for this guide we will be using a GTX 780 Ti because it's super strong and we can show you a ton of different setups and not worry too much about performance you don't need a 780ti to be able to do this at all I wouldn't worry too much about it another reason why we're using this card though is because the modern cards seem to minimize compatibility headaches and other issues along the way that older cards may have all right guys on the forum please post what operating system using what monitor using and what graphics cards are using and what your results were so we can get a little bit of a database going on of what works for me personally my PA 2 for aq both of them were not able to go above 2560 by 1600 but my LGA 29 um 65 in the office was able to easily downsample a 4k signal so I'd love to see what you guys are able to do alright guys so the first thing we're going to want to do is go into the nvidia control panel by right-clicking on our desktop and then selecting Nvidia control panel once inside we're going to click on adjust desktop size and position make sure the check box is selected for override the scaling mode set by games and programs and then click apply next under display you'll select change resolution click customize select enable resolutions not exposed by the display click create custom resolution on a horizontal pixels type in 2560 and under vertical lines type in 1440 and then click test hopefully it was successful click yes to save that resolution if the test worked you're going to go black for a second and then it'll show in the crazy resolution and then it'll show up in this list if 2560 by 1440 P was successful for you and you're feeling a little bit ambitious we can go on and try and create a 4k sixteen by nine resolution so in our horizontal pixels you're going to want to type in thirty eight forty and then under vertical lines you're going to want to type in 20 160 then click test and hopefully it works save that resolution as well if it did work for you then that will add that to the list as well if you're stuck on a certain resolution and you want to push it further and you're being quite adventurous don't worry there's still some stuff you can do but they're quite advanced and very set up specific so please check out Porky's thread on neogaf and post on our forum with the different things that you try out there are some manual settings you can key in but they're pretty finicky so it'll take some playing around good luck so in terms of performance it seems like in Crysis 3 at least down sampling from 2560 by 1440 P down to 1080p was about the same as running 1080p with 8x MSAA on and visually they look pretty comparable as well we're going to show some shots here but I highly suggest going to the forum and viewing them there as YouTube is going to have compression and it's not really going to look right so check them out on the forum without compression maybe download them yourselves and again post screenshots of yourself trying this out maybe in different combinations and all that kind of stuff to the forums we need a little bit of a database going on what looks good and what different setups work alright guys thanks for watching if you want to tell me what you guys think about this of experimenting style video post out in the comments below while you're down there don't forget to like or maybe even dislike the video and subscribe if you want to if you guys want to put input into you trying out down sampling don't forget to put that on the forum as well and while you're there if you don't like the ads on the forum be sure to contribute at any contribution level you get rid of all the ads on the forum and if you guys want to learn is tech tips shirt be sure to check out district lines there's a link in the description you can get those there we've got some really cool stuff coming thanks for watching I'll see you guys next time