I just bought an xbox 360 elite. Its plugged into my pc monitor running in 1080p through the hdmi cable and so far, pretty much every game I've tried (Halo 3, ODST, etc) doesn't seem to have any kind of anti-aliasing. Is this normal or I am having some kind of problem here>
its normal. at those resolutions the 360 cany support AA on most games. its to much for it to handle. plus i rly dont care much for AA especially at those resolutions the added clarity just gets rid of the need for AA (for me at lease haha) ull get used toit trust me. halo 3 or any other game using its engine will look especially jaggy. those games are natively at 640p instead of 720p because microsoft added two video layers. one for the lighting and one for eveyrthing else. and rendering 2 things at once is not easy for the 360 to do.
360 games do have AA, Halo 3 and ODST however are some of the most jagged games you could get. Try another game.Next-Gen-Tec
That's exactly what I was thinking! Halo 3 and ODST don't look that great to begin with but if you play a game like MW2 or GoW2 you shouldn't have those issues.
Though the GPU in the 360 and ps3 should basically allow for 4x AA "for free" in theory... in practice, most devs seem to elect to sacrifice or forget about implementing AA in the rendering pipeline in order to get an additional performance boost in rendering and keeping the game running fluidly. But yea, being able to output the game at a higher resolution seems to reduce how bad the "jaggies" can look like.
The lower the resolutions the more noticeable the jaggies. Halo 3 runs at 640p natively. So there you go.
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It's not the resolution, but the anti-aliasing. The three more recent Call of DUty games run at 600p but they look smooth thanks to superior anti-aliasing.
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