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Revision as of 06:58, 10 January 2024
Computer monitors are essentially a large grid of squares that can be set to any color or brightness. As such, it is impossible to draw a perfectly straight line, because no matter how many squares there are, it will never be able to make a perfectly smooth diagonal. This creates a stair-step pattern that is very noticeable the lower the resolution is, which is often referred to in the Video game world as "Aliasing". 
Spatial Anti-aliasing, often referred to simply as Anti-aliasing, is designed to combat the problems of aliasing. In simple terms, Anti aliasing is designed to smooth out that stair-step pattern in images and make them look less pixelated, while not changing the resolution of the final image.
Overview
MSAA
MultiSample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) was the gaming industry standard of Anti-aliasing, and as such is the only version available in all 
Source games before 
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Essentially, if a polygon is crossing a multisample points [Clarify], it detects how many of its neighboring points are being intersected and then takes the color of that polygon and adds it over the existing image to create a slightly smother line. This creates a smoother line, but does not completely remove the stair-step pattern. This, however, is usually sufficient for most users.
Source games contain 4 different settings of MSAA, which include 2x, 4x, 6x, and 8x. What this does is add more multisampling points to a specified location and increases the accuracy of the multisampling, at the cost of performance
FXAA
[Todo]
TAA
[Todo]
Media
| NO ANTIALIASING | 
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| 2x MSAA | 
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| 4x MSAA | 
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| 8x MSAA | 
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| FXAA | 
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Support
GoldSrc
| Game | FXAA | MSAA | TAA |
|---|---|---|---|
 Half-Life |
NO | YES | NO |
Source
| Game | FXAA | MSAA | TAA |
|---|---|---|---|
 Source 2013 |
NO | YES | NO |
 Black Mesa |
YES | NO | NO |
 Apex Legends |
NO | NO | YES |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
YES | YES | NO |
Source 2
| Game | FXAA | MSAA | TAA |
|---|---|---|---|
 Counter-Strike 2 |
N/A | YES | NO |