MLAA or FXAA

[REYNA1985]

Just want to know what the best quality settings are. To have FXAA on in NVIDIA CP and MLAA in game? Or FXAA off in NVIDIA CP and MLAA or FXAA on in game. Thanks...

[ChazzCheezHardestWorkingManInCS]

I wouldn't use anything in the control panel, but in game, for better looking edges you should go for MLAA, but it will hit performance harder than FXAA.

[Malrick]

I think it's the other away around in-game. It considers FXXA the higher setting in the options menu, and it smooths out the edges more. MLAA is not as blurry, but you still see alot of shimmer.

[pc2000s]

I personally prefer MLAA. I was swapping back and forth for a while, and maybe I'm over-analyzing, but it feels like Dishonored's FXAA dulls some of the color, MLAA gave me more jaggies but the overall image came across as more crisp. Does it actually let you enable FXAA in the nvidia control panel? For some reason that option is grayed out for me. I wish the control panel override worked for anti-aliasing.

[REYNA1985]

Yeah, I was switching back and forth and I agree, MLAA is much more crisp, especially around lighting effects. Yes, NV-CP lets me enable FXAA, but I turned it off just in case there was a conflict with the in game graphics. I'm not sure why you can't enable FXAA though...I was also wondering if enabling ambient occlusion in NVCP had any effect..it doesnt seem to have any effect on my end...

[Sustanon]

Grab nvidia inspector and force ambient occlusion, fxaa whatever you wanna try. Actually if you go to the Nvidia website and skim the Skyrim tweaking tutorial it will tell you on there exactly how to force those/any settings as they do it in skyrim for ac

[REYNA1985]

@Sustanon, I actually have Nvidia inspector, though i never use it. I'm afraid that the game won't run properly or get damaged somehow. This game runs excellent with my GTX 680/ i5 2500k at 4.0ghz, but the game isn't too demanding anyway. Have you personally tried enabling these graphic tweaks through Nvidia inspector, and have you noticed a difference (better graphics) or any problems?

[One3rd]

@reyna1985

I used Inspector to force AA and found the difference to be no short of amazing. Completely removed the jaggies for me without much of an FPS hit (constant 60FPS on my 560Ti). If you still want instructions on how to use Inspector, go to the thread below where irondm11 has posted the steps required. Highly endorse making these changes if you have an Nvidia GPU.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/205100/discussions/0/864948299978154735/#p2

Some sample screens with those changes.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=105320955
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=105194455

[kaay]

mlaa is superior, fxaa is a new graphic gadget that most the time looks even worse than no aa at all because of the excessive fuzziness and detail loss.

[One3rd]

Originally posted by kaay:

mlaa is superior, fxaa is a new graphic gadget that most the time looks even worse than no aa at all because of the excessive fuzziness and detail loss.

I agree about MLAA looking better than standard FXAA, personally I hate the blurryness that FXAA puts on everything.

Enabling 4x multisampling and 4x Sparse Grid supersampling with Nvidia Inspector looks 10x better than either MLAA or FXAA though. If you can, I'd suggest that you try it. The improvement speaks for itself.

[REYNA1985]

Thanks for the tips!

[REYNA1985]

what about the in game settings?

[One3rd]

Originally posted by REYNA1985:

what about the in game settings?

In Inspector, make sure to set the "Antialiasing - Mode" setting to "override any application setting" and this will override any of the ingame AA options. check out the instructional post in my first entry above as it has the detailed steps and screenshot of the NVidia Inspector page.

I also used the Guru3D forum for further info on how to use Inspector, it's a really good resource for this.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357956

And here is a great explanation of what SGSSAA (sparse gride supersampling anti-aliasing) is, how to set it up, and what it does.

http://naturalviolence.webs.com/sgssaa.htm [Edit: fixed up the link so it now works]

[REYNA1985]

thanks..good info!

[Brownie]

I also wasn't too impressed with the AA. I'm also playing with 3dTV Play so 720p gave me loads of shimmer which made me a saaaad panda.

I'm a noob but followed the thread with the Nvidia Inspector and now got 0 jaggies and almost 0 shimmer. Looks so much better so if you've got an Nvidia card download the inspector.

[One3rd]

I was checking that Guru3D site for help with forcing MSAA on Chivalry and came across an update to the compatability bit for Nvidia Inspector, supposedly it reduces some blur and performs better. I haven't tried it myself yet but will see how it works. Anyway, you may want to try this one to see how it works for you. Either way it will be alot better than post-process AA.

"For Dishonored works 0x080000C1(SGSSAA). Less blur and better performance than with ...00C1 and ...10C1"

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357956&page=26