OK.
On my Nvidia GF4 Ti4200 with 128MB and 8X the program is visually "crappy" without turning on some combination of these things. I don't usually have these on in any program and most things look great.
With them on the thing is 100 times more believable, and is just plain pretty compared to just plain gritty.
Here is the GA with none of these turned on:
http://rmrcpa.com/lgk/ga/noaa.jpg
All the edges are ragged, and everything looks flat and like a cut and paste.
Here is the GA with 2X Antialiasing and Texture Sharpening on:
http://rmrcpa.com/lgk/ga/aa.jpg
Everything is smooth, no field effects, and the depth of objects really comes out.
(get similar results with the anisotropic filtering and various combinations of the three)
Here is a 3MB movie showing the plants moving in both settings. HUGE DIFFERENCE.
http://rmrcpa.com/lgk/ga/Movie_0002.wmv
In the GA, these settings have very little fps impact. In some other programs, I get a big slowdown. How can I make these settings go on for just the GA?? Is an option inside GA necessary to toggle these things? The GA absolutely, IMO, needs settings internally to toggle these driver options for just the aquarium if there is not some external way to make it happen.