Mxaa vs Txaa X2

[Purge]

What takes a bigger performance hit on my computer? I'm trying to increase my fps.

[Francis_Mallman]

Lower god rays from High. Set shadows to Normal. Turn off AA completely. Or just use MSAA set to 2.

Unless you really like the look of TXAA. In my opinion, it's amazing. I love it, and will sacrifice frames for it.

[Grimminski]

SMAA > All. Unless you're downsampling.

[Timeraider]

Set AA to SMAA... unless you are playing on massive resolution.. turning AA off will make it to edgy, but turning it higher then SMAA is not needed and only makes it blurrier.

but.. the MSAA vs TXAA thing. Problem atm is,... just NEVER use TXAA at any game.. Its supposed to be a major nvidia AA that has the performance of FXAA but it better. Now comes the catch.. it indeed is as fps-lowering as FXAA BUT it anti-aliases EVERYTHING.. not just the edges, even the centers of textures it will try to blur :P some people like it.. i really dont. (at call of duty ghosts you can actually turn up TXAA so much that it will almost look like there is smoke hanging in front of the screen :P)
Now MSAA .. normally TXAA would cost less frames then MSAA but the AA performance hits in this game are actually alot smaller then i normally expect so TXAA and MSAA cost about the same fps.
If you dont think SMAA is enough and really want something else.. go for MSAA .

Aside from that.. would agree with mickster to turn down shadows, turn down god rays and i would add.. turn down ambient occlusion.
However i would never suggest to turn of the AA.. FXAA is minimal you need to actually make sure it doesnt start looking like minecaft.. and i would just keep it at SMAA minimally

tbh the AA only matters very slightly compared to some of the othr settings (the quality settings for example only differ 1 fps between low and very high :P)

[Eck]

Use SMAA or FXAA and turn god rays to low, put shadows on very high (not soft) and the game runs way better.

[BodyPolitic]

I like SmAA my self, try this, look at a stack of hay and switch between the AA types as the hay carts show some of the worse aliasing in the game

[Nismo]

TXAA is less taxing then MSAA

[bulldog0890]

i'm not sure which aa is least taxing, but i feel txaa looks the best

[IntentlyBored]

Anti-Aliasing, use either SMAA, or TXAA and here's why: FXAA Blurs textures way too much, SMAA has almost no performance hit like FXAA, but doesn't ♥♥♥♥ up the texture quality. If you want real AA, avoid MSAA and CSAA because Ubisoft made it so FXAA will also be applied so transparent textures aren't aliased, but again this leaves textures blurred. Go with TXAA If you want real AA, it has a decent performance hit (roughly the same as MSAA), but much better quality.

GODRAYS TO LOW. You won't notice a difference unless you look for it, because the high quality godrays are TESSELATED, I'm not sure in what world somebody would need those, but unless you have a beast of a GPU it's just not worth it. (I am able to pull it off if I slightly OC my GTX 670, but I don't find it worth it). I cannot stress this one enough, it has the biggest hit on performance.

If SMAA and Godrays to low doesn't cut it, set shadows to Very high, and get rid of soft shadows. It won't look as photo-realistic, but it will still be very pretty. If you still have performance issues after that, start lowering other settings, but that's when you'll start noticing the quality drops more and more.

[Zardax]

I'd recomand ya to use MSAA . TXAA is a freakin' blur fest .

[volfin]

Clearly some here have FXAA and TXAA confused. FXAA is the one that blurs, not TXAA. Ziplocpeople is the only one that got it right.

[Grimminski]

Originally posted by volfin:

FXAA is the one that blurs, not TXAA. Ziplocpeople is the only one that got it right.

TXAA is blurry as hell.