Trees with TAA looks atrocious

[Catamaran]

My settings are Xbox X-like (by Digital Foundry), so it's a mix of low/mid, sometimes high. One thing that bothered me when I started playing is that trees looks somewhat cartoony. I wondered if it's because my settings are far from ultra, but you can only switch tree tasselation on/off and set tree LOD, but these settings don't affect the looks of leaves up close at all.
One time I decided to play with antialiasing and look what I found:

• TAA enabled (tree looks like it came right from Life is Strange): https://ibb.co/ZX25vTK
  
• All AA off (wow, you can see leaves on the branches): https://ibb.co/F3Fmwks

Personally I will play this game downscaled from 4K from now on (or 2K with MSAA x2) even if it costs me half the framerate because you only have two options: shimmering on leaves/grass/beard without AA or smudged washed off vegetation with TAA.

[Rico The Fury]

Taa high and radeon sharpening or the same thing from nvidia . Give it a try. Cheers.

[Catamaran]

Originally posted by KEcena:

Taa high and radeon sharpening or the same thing from nvidia . Give it a try. Cheers.

Okay, here's a screenshot of 1080p TAA + sharpening from Nvidia control panel (default settings):
https://ibb.co/cDMJhCj
Leaves are still smudged all over.

[Prince Vegeta]

My experience with TAA since it's release is that it makes colors washed out and makes some things even blurrier than FXAA. I've never been a fan of it and it's the first thing I turn off in any game. I won't deny the performance gains of using it over FXAA or MSAA but it's just not worth the visual sacrifice to me.

[Rico The Fury]

Originally posted by Catamaran:

Originally posted by KEcena:

Taa high and radeon sharpening or the same thing from nvidia . Give it a try. Cheers.

Okay, here's a screenshot of 1080p TAA + sharpening from Nvidia control panel (default settings):
https://ibb.co/cDMJhCj
Leaves are still smudged all over.

i dont have this problem using radeon sharpening, in fact i wish radeon could make a slider to decrease sharpening. Maybe nvidia have a slider? is on max?

[morph113]

I prefer TAA over no AA because without it all the jagged pixels look like rubbish. However with TAA it's not great either since everything looks washed out. For me using the sharpening via the Nvidia overlay (ALT+F3) makes it look perfect. No jaggies and a crisp clear image.

[Sunday Driver]

Crysis did trees better years ago.

[darcy]

Personally I think trees with TAA look better than using Msaa. You didn't notice all the leafs on the trees that disappear when using Msaa? Your own screenshots show how much fuller the trees are with Taa. Msaa can remove fine details especially with vegetation.

[Rico The Fury]

Originally posted by Dank Nugs:

My experience with TAA since it's release is that it makes colors washed out and makes some things even blurrier than FXAA. I've never been a fan of it and it's the first thing I turn off in any game. I won't deny the performance gains of using it over FXAA or MSAA but it's just not worth the visual sacrifice to me.

It´s weird, having fxaa on or off dont do almost anything to the image quality and i would say it uses 1 fps or less rofl

[^èa†èr^]

best to set nvidia control panel to default setting and let the game control gpu, using both causes hardware software conflict, games are designed to control the gpu, always have been.

[Catamaran]

Originally posted by darcy:

Personally I think trees with TAA look better than using Msaa. You didn't notice all the leafs on the trees that disappear when using Msaa? Your own screenshots show how much fuller the trees are with Taa. Msaa can remove fine details especially with vegetation.

Yeah I noticed that you lose vegetation details with MSAA on, but with TAA things get even worse. So the only way to get pretty leaves is downsample (?)

[lancelot]

I don't mind how the trees in the distance look in a static pic: https://i.imgur.com/8LebIkt.jpg, but, when in motion, I'm seeing a similar kind of black dot dithering effect on objects in background, and that does bother me (here it's used on objects in foreground obstructing the camera, which I'm fine with).

[Rico The Fury]

Originally posted by lancelot:

I don't mind how the trees in the distance look in a static pic: https://i.imgur.com/8LebIkt.jpg, but, when in motion, I'm seeing a similar kind of black dot dithering effect on objects in background, and that does bother me (here it's used on objects in foreground obstructing the camera, which I'm fine with).

turn off soft shadows

[bizarre]

TAA makes it look like fortnite. gotta upscale or run at higher resolution for it to look good I found out but I want 60fps and don't have the hardware for this game to look as advertised right now so Red Dead Fortnite it is.

[Tashnaladar]

we all have to stop and admire the pretty leaves for a while sometimes, if we don't it spoils the whole game for some reason. i'm off to find some new nits to pick

[Rico The Fury]

Originally posted by bizarre:

TAA makes it look like fortnite. gotta upscale or run at higher resolution for it to look good I found out but I want 60fps and don't have the hardware for this game to look as advertised right now so Red Dead Fortnite it is.

that is true, it looks better with radeon shaperning or similar from nvidea, it will be 100% sharp, the mix of amd tool and taa sharpening in game and finding the sweetspot can be a little boring but in the end will look a lot better.