So, why does SSAA make the game look worse?

[MiskatonicFox]

I remember in that thread about the game looking worse than the original, someone brought up the game looking too "Blurry." I didn't have that issue at first but I decided to see if my computer would run the game with SSAA since this time the game is actually bloody optimized and I was having a good framerate maxed out everywhere else. But I turned on SSAA and jesus christ, someone put vaseline on the screen and then smeared it around with a thin layer of crisco. Thankfully I can just use regular Anti-Aliasing through the nVidia control panel, but wtf is up with that?

[Frak]

You probably set SSAA to .5, which renders the screen at half resolution. If 2x and 4x were making everything blurry, then I don't know. My image is a lot crisper with those two settings, but they tank the framerate.

[Nite69]

yea 0.5 will run blury for me too, 2x I drop to 30fps, 4x I won't even bother trying as my system can't handle it (SLI is required and I'm on single card), so I just keep it off

[MiskatonicFox]

Originally posted by Frakattack:

You probably set SSAA to .5, which renders the screen at half resolution. If 2x and 4x were making everything blurry, then I don't know. My image is a lot crisper with those two settings, but they tank the framerate.

You're actually right, I feel a bit silly now because I noticed that after posting this. Actually, I didn't set it directly to 0.5, but set it to "Auto" and when it and 0.5 yielded more or less the same results I made an assumption. Bleh. 2x does mess up the framerate though, which is otherwise fine and honestly the anti-aliasing with the nvidia control panel is good enough for me and keeps it running at 60+ fps (Same with the vsync, I rarely use in game vsyncs since they seem to limit it more.)

[Brunno Lee]

Does SSAA really downgrades the graphics? I'm using it set to 2x (still getting about 60 fps) and idk.... sometimes i feel like the graphics aren't so good as i remember Metro Last Light (original) had and i thought this version of 2033 would be close/equal to it :/

[Frak]

SSAA is just supersampling. .5x renders the game at half resoltuion, then 2x and 4x are doubling and quadrupling the resolution, hence the peformance hit if your computer can't handle it.

[Brunno Lee]

Oh i see, thanks for the fast answer.

[OrganikSkillz]

SSAA at 2x puts my computer around 35-45 fps. Its a truckload. I had to turn it off and im still getting between 60-70 fps. A bit upset tbh.

[Brunno Lee]

Originally posted by OrganikSkillz:

SSAA at 2x puts my computer around 35-45 fps. Its a truckload. I had to turn it off and im still getting between 60-70 fps. A bit upset tbh.

But does not using SSAA makes the game looks significantly worse? I still haven't played it much to see it

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Originally posted by BrunoRP:

Originally posted by OrganikSkillz:

SSAA at 2x puts my computer around 35-45 fps. Its a truckload. I had to turn it off and im still getting between 60-70 fps. A bit upset tbh.

But does not using SSAA makes the game looks significantly worse? I still haven't played it much to see it

If you set it to 0.5 it will look worse. if you set it to above 1.0,then it will begin to look better, but will tank your framerate.

[PallyLIVE | Twitch]

Just force AA in your graphics driver - even FXAA is decent for the Redux and gives almost no performance hit.

I just use 2xSSAA though.

[Victoria]

SSAA @ 3x is enough to maintain 50-60 fps on SLI GTX 780s at 1080p. Bumping it up to 4X tanks the framerate down to ~35 fps.

I wonder what you need to get SSAA @ 4x working smoothly at 1080p60.

[Jig McGalliger]

SSAA multiplies your internal rendering resolution by whetever you set it to. So for 1080p 4x internally renders at 4k resolution then displays it through 1080 and .5 is half the resolution, to run better on super low end systems.

[JM@PT]

{LINK REMOVED} 0.5x SSAA
{LINK REMOVED} 1x SSAA(off)
{LINK REMOVED} 2x SSAA

[Brunno Lee]

Originally posted by ⒿⓂ@ⓅⓉ:

{LINK REMOVED} 0.5x SSAA
{LINK REMOVED} 1x SSAA(off)
{LINK REMOVED} 2x SSAA

This might be too obvious but the graphics with SSAA off looks even worse than set to 0.5x?

[Nexodus]

I play on 2X, but 3X it is annoying to drop fps when I turn around, 4x is even worse.
I got 2x GTX 680 + i7-3960x, what are the requirement for running this smoothly?
Or is there a software/driver error?