Counter-Strike Source FPS Command: Comparison

Please move your mouse in and out of the image to compare the game with lowest and high Settings. The first image shows the game with deactivated fps killer (Texture Overlay and 3D Sky) as well as 0x AA, 0xAF and lowest Texture Level. The MouseOver image shows the game with 4x AA, 4x AF and highest Texture Level. Pay attention to the bottom, the edge at the corner, the C4 and hands and also the cars to the right. And now get a look at the Net_Graph: although the settings are rather high (partially the highest possible) in the second screenshot, is there literally NO FPS loss! My question now is: why the heck do people play a game that looks better than the original (1.6) and screw up the IQ until the game looks like shit, when they can have a good looking CS:S with the almost same performance?

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