Originally posted by Jim Sachs
Yeah, that guy has been writing to us complaining about his frame rates. He's upset that I'm unwilling to spend a week trying to figure out why he experiences such a drop when he uses FSAA.
How about people just try to understand that the fish are complex. The tank looks more real than any PC game ever seen. There is no other app anything like it to compare to, and oh well, I guess it's too much for the AA technology as it exists today.
The thing is that the aquarium looks more like a rendered TV commercial or short film happeining in real time than a PC game (those are usually pulled off like frame by frame I think from much more expensive equipment than most of us use). Clearly rendering this type of 3D in real time is not what recreational card manufacturers have in mind when they build a card or design a driver - they are looking to make games run fast.
Just my opinion.