Hardware Does the Wii support anit-aliasing?

[domo kun]

I searched this up a bit and found very mixed answers so I decided to ask. Now I know what anti-aliasing is and I know that every 64bit+ console supports it but I wanted to know if the Wii supports 4x msaa or more. And if so, which games do so because I've noticed a lot of jaggies on most games I've played.

 

[Lumstar]

Most likely it has to be enabled by the developer. Not automatic. Wii isn't powerful enough for much though.

 

[domo kun]

Okay, so can you give me an example of a game that does this?

 

[Lumstar]

Not really. I don't know enough about the Wii library...

 

[WhiteWingedKnigh]

Anti-aliasing in a wii game, Maybe there are some games that use it vaguely. Prime 3?

I'm not sure, but unless your someone who gets bugged alot by jagged lines, then AA shouldn't matter.

 

[kedest]

Well look at galaxy for example. that's really smooth, no jagged edges

 

[Ergo]

Yes, it supports it BUT it is very expensive computationally--even the vast, vast majority of X360 titles don't use more than 2xAA.

 

[Trolly]

Yeah, Anti-Aliasing uses up more resources than its worth. On PC games, it's the last thing I think about whacking up. And jaggies are more down to design and low polys than a lack of AA.

Besides, unless I'm wrong, you can't 'support' anti-aliasing as it depends on how well you use the resources and what form Anti-Aliasing takes.

 

[CockroachMan]

Yep.. just look at Mario Galaxy, Brawl and Mario Kart.. most Nintendo games have it.

I've heard somewhere that Brawl has 4xAA, couldn't find any confirmation thought :/

 

[maduin]

pro evolution soccer 2008 has great AA, no jaggies whatsoever (a little exaggeration, but almost no jaggies).

 

[Rayder]

I don't know what equivalent of an ATI Radeon it has in it, but I can GUARANTEE that the Wii does indeed have some AA abilities. ALL Radeon cards do. Thing is, the Wii is such a weak system (relatively speaking) that most games are pushing the system so hard that they can't afford the framerate hit it would take to enable the feature and I think most companies can't be arsed to optimize a game before pushing it out the door so they could turn AA on.