I need help with the aliasing in this game.

[HonoredShadow]

I want to start playing this again but I just can't get over the jaggies. I have tried over-riding settings with NV panel but nope.

Is there no hope? Space stations look like a jagged mess. I would love DLSS for the AA or something.

Any ideas? I want my friends to play as well but when they watch youtube videos, the first thing they say is "Look at the mess".

[Idaho]

Maybe look into specific Reshade filters.

[Freyar]

Super Sampling to 1.25x is about all you can really do.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Freyar:

Super Sampling to 1.25x is about all you can really do.

Or 2.0x on a fast card (but not on 4k)

[Freyar]

I can get away with up to 1.5x, but.. yeah. (I'm at 3840x1600

[Sighman]

When this game was released we were lucky to have 19" monitors. It would look awesome and sharp on one of those.

[Planewalker]

Make sure to also set the correct resolution, and turn off FSR, maybe turn on CAS @80%.
(It's under Options - [+]Quality - Upscaling -> Sharpening intensity (Sharpens the HUD too))

Nvidia DLSS/etc can be done via the driver HQ software on top. (FSR/CAS is GPU-agnostic)

[Freyar]

Out of curiosity, can you force DLAA via driver?

[HonoredShadow]

I don't think so sadly.

[BloodravenD]

Antialiasing has always been pretty bad with Elite. Best way to fix it is to brute force it with setting the FSR/CAS to native or off, and setting supersampling to 1.25x or higher. You could try to fix it with Reshade, however that is more like forcing FXAA, decreasing all quality to reduce jaggies. There was actually a thread a month or two ago, discussing the Antialiasing issue.

Originally posted by Sighman:

When this game was released we were lucky to have 19" monitors. It would look awesome and sharp on one of those.

Elite came out in 2014, which you could easily get 24" 1080p panels. I had a 27" 1080p I bought in 2015.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by BloodravenD:

Originally posted by Sighman:

When this game was released we were lucky to have 19" monitors. It would look awesome and sharp on one of those.

Elite came out in 2014, which you could easily get 24" 1080p panels. I had a 27" 1080p I bought in 2015.

I agree - just like you can 'get' a 4090 now, but a 3060 is way more common. (And they started development on the game in 2012?)

I still have my 24" 1920x1200 Samsung LCD from that era, but I know my wife and kids were still on 19"-23" screens at the time.

Anyway, I'm sure that now they could rewrite the AA code for modern cards and monitors, but like everything Elite most people would prefer they work on new gameplay features if there's a choice between the two.

[Idaho]

I just tried out some different AA filters in reshade. Many do a pretty decent job, one in particular works really well but, for me anyway, it kinda makes the text blur when in motion, like moving around in headlook.

TLAA by astray/blueskydefender.

There's some SMAA ones as well; and a guide online on how to modify the settings to make it look decent, supposedly. I didn't try it but it's simple enough to do.

https://reshade.me/forum/shader-discussion/7289-taa-quality-non-blurry-anti-aliasing-done-using-smaa-smartsharpen-presets

[Mr.SunshineGuy]

If you have an Nvidia card, Nvidia is planning on letting us use DLAA on apparently any game that doesn't support it natively. That may be the best bet if your PC isn't good enough to supersample, but who knows how long we'll wait for that.

[HonoredShadow]

Ohh that will be good! Any card? Or 5xxx series? Hopefully any RTX. Thanks!

[Hurlbag]

Nvidia DSR completely resolved this for me. I have a 4070 super on a 1440p monitor though i'm not sure if it's tied to the later series of cards but I use DSR 4x factor which downscales from 5120x2880 simply by ticking it in nvidia control panel then picking the resolution within Elite's options - next to no aliasing with zero drop in framerate (capped at 144 which it will always sit at - unless you disembark on a station which it has to cope with way more rendering then it tanks to about 50-60) but so far that is the only scenario where I see a draw back. Landing on planets and doing SRV/FPS stuff has no impact!

[Mr.SunshineGuy]

Originally posted by HonoredShadow:

Ohh that will be good! Any card? Or 5xxx series? Hopefully any RTX. Thanks!

I believe any RTX will be compatible.

But yeah, DSR is another option at the moment, but it can still be demanding. I have an RTX 3060ti and if I use DSR to run game in 4k, my FPS drops significantly, even down to 20-30 in some stations and settlements. At 1080p I cap my framerate at 120 and it generally sticks there unless of course, I'm in a highly populated settlement or something, then it drops to 50-60. Personally, I'd rather suffer from bad AA than playing any game at 30 and below lol.