Yes, what you are observing is normal because MSAA demands more bandwidth to the GPU so the time is moved there.

Could you elaborate more about this ticket?

Thanks for your feedback!

Hm, I didn't get an e-mail about your reply.

I just retested the TicTacToe example in XAML Player. See screenshots.

MSAA 4x Maximized: 1.6 ms
MSAA 8x Windowed: 0.58 ms
MSAA 8x Maximized: 66.59 ms (sometimes it jumps to 133 ms)

See, there's a huge jump.

There should be enough video memory available. With MSAA 8x Maximized it sits at about 820 MB out of 1 GB. After closing XAML Player it's 383 MB.

But there's something else strange going on. Sometimes the MSAA 4x Maximized jumps to 33 ms and stays there until switching the AA or resizing the window.

So many changes in XamlPlayer since this report. :)

Did you have the chance to test the latest version of NoesisGUI? In these new versions you need to indicate the multisample level at the command line (--samples 8)

Hey jsantos. I just tested 2.2.0b5. Looking good so far!

Of course, since my bug report in 2015 I have upgraded some hardware. From an i7-920 and a 460 GTX to a Ryzen 5 2600 with 1070 GTX.

Also the example TicTacToe.xaml has changed and MasterMind.xaml is removed.

So it is not really a fair comparison. But with Palette.xaml at 8x MSAA 1080p 60 fps, GPU time is max 2.39 ms.

Those are good numbers I think, you will probably get better GPU numbers if you disable vsynv (--vsync 0).

So many optimizations happened since the last version you tried. :)