Is it just me or does TAA suck?

[I AM THE LAW!]

I'm running a RX 7900GRE 1440p everything on ultra, and I was messing around with the anti-aliasing, and I noticed that taa not only makes stuff blurry, but also choppy and just overall worse, is it just me?
I switched to fxaa and it's very smooth and clear now.
Also it's not as noticeable on planets as when you're in space looking at them, especially planets rings!

[Teljaxx]

Yeah, TAA is usually awful. It makes small repeating details all blurry, and can add really nasty ghosting trails to moving objects. Its basically the modern version of overdone bloom and depth of field that made mid-2000s games look super blurry. Some games implement it well. But most don't.

Luckily, at anything above 1920x1080 resolution, you barely even need any anti-aliasing for a game to look nice and clear. So turn that crap off, and don't look back.

[Nimsosim]

It's true.
Often times you can disable certain things that are supposed to make it look good and it will look better. Just have to experiment.

For me things like motion blur or to much post processing will make the game look worse.
And yea like Teljaxx said once you get into higher resolutions you don't even need those things usually the edges are fine without them. The problem is higher resolutions are the most taxing effect on your system.

I used to do a trick on my old system where I would turn my desktop resolution all the way down and somehow that would free up a ton of resources so I could run the games at a even higher resolution.

[I AM THE LAW!]

Originally posted by Nimsosim:

It's true.
Often times you can disable certain things that are supposed to make it look good and it will look better. Just have to experiment.

For me things like motion blur or to much post processing will make the game look worse.
And yea like Teljaxx said once you get into higher resolutions you don't even need those things usually the edges are fine without them. The problem is higher resolutions are the most taxing effect on your system.

I used to do a trick on my old system where I would turn my desktop resolution all the way down and somehow that would free up a ton of resources so I could run the games at a even higher resolution.

Oh huh, interesting. I would think with the desktop being a lowe resolution it would make tabbi g out of a game to the desktop or another application glitchy, did you have any issues with that?

[Nimsosim]

Nope it always was way faster. If you have a older system it will free up a great amount of VRAM for your games.

Edit: some other tricks that you can use are.... Turn down the extra effects that windows has take the liberty of using for its desktop. Like drop shadows.. hardware acceleration ect. Turn it all off the desktop doesn't need them.
Also your folders are applying these advanced rendering techniques such as drop shadows and lighting effects. Turn them off. Search the options in settings and folder options.

Edit L Of course this is only necessary if your system can't already support all of these things at once.

[I AM THE LAW!]

Originally posted by Nimsosim:

Nope it always was way faster. If you have a older system it will free up a great amount of VRAM for your games.

Edit: some other tricks that you can use are.... Turn down the extra effects that windows has take the liberty of using for its desktop. Like drop shadows.. hardware acceleration ect. Turn it all off the desktop doesn't need them.
Also your folders are applying these advanced rendering techniques such as drop shadows and lighting effects. Turn them off. Search the options in settings and folder options.

Edit L Of course this is only necessary if your system can't already support all of these things at once.

Ah ok, yeah I just recently build a new PC, and it's pretty up to date. my old system had minor issues with tabbing out of games if the desktop and game resolution weren't the same
Windows would get moved around, and sometimes the game would just crash or stop working.

[Nimsosim]

Originally posted by Craftfaster:

Ah ok, yeah I just recently build a new PC, and it's pretty up to date. my old system had minor issues with tabbing out of games if the desktop and game resolution weren't the same
Windows would get moved around, and sometimes the game would just crash or stop working.

Sure. There is always a chance. I never ran into that. It was a good trick that got me by on some games my system couldn't really handle at the time. Your not likely to hear that recommend anywhere else.