me noob. what is anti aliasing and what does it do?

[Speight of Hand]

erm yeah so im trying to figure out how to stop back to the future from crashing every five minutes and am trying everything possible. ive posted on here but no one seems to answer :( in my attempts at fixing it im wondering what anti aliasing is cos im a noob and havent a clue :)

[Martin McFly]

Anti Aliasing: Fooling the eye into thinking a jagged edge on an image is smooth.

http://flasheandoblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/anti-aliasing.jpg

About your game crashing, tell me the exact conditions of the problem. Is it just with a certain episode? Does it always crash within five minutes?

[Speight of Hand]

it crashes every five minutes during play :( if i have the graphics and resolution down real low then it plays fine but its kinda annoying

right so anti aliasing being high or low will have what effect on the game? be patient with me :)

[Jake]

If you turn anti aliasing off, the game will run better but the edges of objects in the game will look a bit jaggier.

[Speight of Hand]

thought so. thanks then at least now i can actually play the damn game now :)

[coolguy721]

its better anti aliased

[Speight of Hand]

nothing seems to help. it crashes anyway. im never gonna play this game am i?

[Martin McFly]

Tried moving the shadows bar down one level?

[Speight of Hand]

yeah and that, everything. ive given up now. unless telltale releases a patch to fix it all im just gonna have to watch playthroughs on youtube or whatever :P

[ScreamingFalcon]

Or, perhaps, your computer may not be up to the job? Have you updated all of your drivers recently?