shihonage wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 18:05:
If you want to have FXAA benefits without FXAA problems, get this:
http://mrhaandi.blogspot.com/p/injectsmaa.html

It works with pretty much every game, just like FXAA, but it reduces amount of blurring involved in the process. It is more accurate at estimating edges/perspective/etc.

I use it in Tribes: Ascend, it works great and doesn't blur text, either.

In order to use it, you'll have to unzip the corresponding files into game's binary folder so that it intercepts DirectX calls. And disable the game's native antialiasing modes, including FXAA.

I use this with Borderlands 2 - it suits it really well the games own aliasing is a bit crappy.

shame there still is no TXAA support.

Tom wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 18:30:
I'm sure that works great with Punkbuster...

It's not a DLL injection, it doesn't modify the executable or operating memory in any way, so it depends on how paranoid Punkbuster is.

Loopy wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 18:30:

Kosumo wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 15:45:
Another options is to half close your eyes and blur everything. (no hit on frame rate)

The Xtreme Budget Gamer solution. Up there with watching Youtube videos of games while using the keyboard and mouse like you're actually playing the games.

I'm sure that works great with Punkbuster...

Kosumo wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 15:45:
Another options is to half close your eyes and blur everything. (no hit on frame rate)

The Xtreme Budget Gamer solution. Up there with watching Youtube videos of games while using the keyboard and mouse like you're actually playing the games.

If you want to have FXAA benefits without FXAA problems, get this:
http://mrhaandi.blogspot.com/p/injectsmaa.html

It works with pretty much every game, just like FXAA, but it reduces amount of blurring involved in the process. It is more accurate at estimating edges/perspective/etc.

I use it in Tribes: Ascend, it works great and doesn't blur text, either.

In order to use it, you'll have to unzip the corresponding files into game's binary folder so that it intercepts DirectX calls. And disable the game's native antialiasing modes, including FXAA.

I never use any kind of AA. It blurs the image, and I refuse to have blurred images. Not a big fan of blur in general...

I lick my monitor like a dog.

Another options is to half close your eyes and blur everything. (no hit on frame rate)

Whenever I start a new game, I immediately head for the graphics options and mess with the v-sync and shadow settings. For some reason, shadows always seem to kill the frame rate, across the board. I have found very few games that it didn't affect. Lately I've spent in-ordinate amounts of time in Minecraft (yeah, yeah, I know) and I always turn off v-sync, and AF. Typically I would keep AF to 16x but then I turned it off one day, my fps shot up like 50 and I sat there looking like Keano Reeves. I was under the mistaken impression (for like 10 YEARS!) that AF had little effect on performance. Duh. So now that's something I watch for too. In graphically heavy games like GTA and BF3, shadows, AF, v-sync and AA go OFF or to very LOW settings and then I step them up after playing for a while...

So, basically, I just do the same thing everyone else does and contributed nothing to the conversation...


=-Rigs-=

I really prefer good ole'fashioned straight-up EDGE anti-aliasing, and absolutely despise some of these newer engines which not only don't support it but also somehow prevent it from being forced on. If I wanted the whole screen blurred - as in FXAA - I'd say so. But I don't want that. So at least let me just AA around the edges of geometry instead of making the whole game look as if I was running it at a non-native lower resolution (which is what it always looks like to me).

justice7 wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 11:18:
I rarely use AA even if my rig easily handles the game.

My general setup in almost every game:

1920x1080
AF 16x
V-Sync: Off (unless there's bad tearing)
Shadows: High (or one setting lower than maximum. Generally looks the same but gives a huge performance boost).

FXAA: Off
Bloom: On (game dependent, some games go a little nuts with bloom)


I find nearly every game I play looks and runs better with these settings.


My rig:
i5 3570k
8GB DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6970

These are more or less my settings, though I prefer VSYNC on most of the time and 2x MSAA. Mostly replying to second the one step down from highest shadow setting. I've noticed as much as a 25% improvement in performance with just that one change. If I'm getting below 60 fps, I turn that down and it almost always does the trick. It's especially pronounced in WoW, Guild Wars 2 and Bioshock Infinite.

It's funny since recently digital cameras started removing the AA filter off the sensor to get sharper images - one potential side effect = aliasing!

I rarely use AA even if my rig easily handles the game.

My general setup in almost every game:

1920x1080
AF 16x
V-Sync: Off (unless there's bad tearing)
Shadows: High (or one setting lower than maximum. Generally looks the same but gives a huge performance boost).

FXAA: Off
Bloom: On (game dependent, some games go a little nuts with bloom)


I find nearly every game I play looks and runs better with these settings.


My rig:
i5 3570k
8GB DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6970

Tim wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 10:53:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1329979/anti-aliasing-the-basics

Pretty good summary. Partly it's personal preference and partly it's down to how much of a performance hit your system can take (IQ versus load).

Thanks Tim!

Wildone wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 10:40:
just a lil case of Consolitus

Next time, try thinking before spewing non-sense. I know that might be a lot to ask....

I never use FXAA, it always looks like vaseline smeared all over the screen.

eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 30, 2013, 10:50:
It ain't call POST AA for nothing... POST AA is BLUR it is not AA no matter how much bullshit Nvidia and AMD spew, post added AA is inferior, always, every time. Unless the guys who coded the shader had half a braincell left and added a 2 pass luma sharpening filter. (1 before, 1 after FXAA pass)

Motion Blur, Post AA, Depth of Field and AO are the settings I instantly turned off in the beta.... because these big AAA games always fuck up something that is absolutely mind numbing easy to understand.

If you add AA in post, you have to SHARPEN THE FUCKING IMAGE (luma based)

Bah, Bah bah. (Angry because this is so simple and yet developers don't do it...)

Has nothing to do with Consoles. FXAA can look awesome if proper SINC (I guess including an Anti-Ringing filter) luma sharpening is applied.

This ^^
BUT BUT MUH CONSOLITUS!

http://www.overclock.net/t/1329979/anti-aliasing-the-basics

Pretty good summary. Partly it's personal preference and partly it's down to how much of a performance hit your system can take (IQ versus load).