Enabling Anti Aliasing on NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 in Nvidia Cards

Nvidia Inspector 1.93 essentially adds all the functionality that used to be present in nHancer and now includes a GUI for editing profiles - no more cryptic feature names!

Get it here:
http://download.orbmu2k.de/download.php?id=51



Here's how I enable AA in with the latest drivers - this process effectively does the same thing nHancer did for the older drivers, just in a less pretty/streamlined way.

1. Get the latest drivers installed. (258.96 as of this writing)

2. Download Nvidia Inspector here:
http://download.orbmu2k.de/download.php?id=51

3. Open up your standard Nvidia control panel that comes with the driver. Select "Manage 3D settings" on the left side, then select the Program Settings page. These are your game specific profiles. Create one for NFS HP and add the executable.

KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE EXPERIMENTAL SETTINGS, TWEAKING OF THESE MAY BE NEEDED.

4. Set the following options in both profiles:

Anisotropic Filtering: 16X
Power Management: Prefer Maximum Performance
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias: Clamp
Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality (this disables several of the other texture filtering options, setting them to Off even though they may still show On while grayed out)

5. Now run Nvidia Inspector. Click the button that looks like two gears to the far right side of the "Driver Version" line. This brings up the profile editor. This isn't as pretty as nHancer, but it will let give us access to the same hidden AA modes nHancer did.

6.

Here's the settings to make within the editor:

OPTION 1 OVERRIDE AA SETTINGS:

a. Antialiasing - Behavior Flags: AA_BEHAVIOR_FLAGS_NONE
b. Antialiasing - Mode Selector: AA_MODE_SELECTOR_OVERRIDE
c. Antialiasing - Setting: AA_MODE_METHOD_MIXEDSAMPLE_8X (This is the 8xS mode we're all familiar with, if you want 8xSQ, that's the next one down in the list, AA_MODE_METHOD_MIXEDSAMPLE_8X_SKEWED_8TAP. The normal multisample AA settings are the ones that start with AA_MODE METHOD_MULTISAMPLE, these do not have a supersampling componet and will not eliminate shimmering the way the MIXEDSAMPLE (aka "Combined" in nHancer lingo) ones do. Be advise that many of these AA modes listed here don't actually work or will cause strange issues. If you can run it, just stick to the 8xS one.)
d. Press Apply Profile


OPTION 2 ENHANCE AA SETTINGS:
a. Antialiasing - Behavior Flags: AA_BEHAVIOR_FLAGS_NONE
b. Antialiasing - Mode Selector: AA_MODE_SELECTOR_ENHANCE
c. Antialiasing - Setting: AA_MODE_METHOD_MIXEDSAMPLE_8X (This is the 8xS mode we're all familiar with, if you want 8xSQ, that's the next one down in the list, AA_MODE_METHOD_MIXEDSAMPLE_8X_SKEWED_8TAP. The normal multisample AA settings are the ones that start with AA_MODE METHOD_MULTISAMPLE, these do not have a supersampling componet and will not eliminate shimmering the way the MIXEDSAMPLE (aka "Combined" in nHancer lingo) ones do. Be advise that many of these AA modes listed here don't actually work or will cause strange issues. If you can run it, just stick to the 8xS one.)
d. Press Apply Profile