Anti-aliasing is AWFUL! Need tips!

[Chubzdoomer]

I already made a topic complaining about this game's graphics in general, but this time I want to make a more specific (and hopefully helpful/constructive) topic regarding the terrible anti-aliasing in this game.

We essentially have three options:

1. No AA - Self explanatory; jaggies galore!
   
2. SMAA - Barely better than no AA; smooths out some jaggies, but they're still everywhere
   
3. TAA - Blurs away most of the jaggies and the entire scene

So either you have loads of jaggies, or your screen looks like it's smothered in Vaseline.

The only other option is to use supersampling by increasing the resolution scale. Sadly, you need to bump it up a reasonable amount to truly smooth things out, and by that point you've butchered the frame rate. Unless you're rocking at least a GTX 1080, you can forget about using this method and keeping 60+ FPS at 1080p or above.

So what do you guys recommend for anti-aliasing? It'd be great if there were a method to get rid of the jaggies WITHOUT the blurriness of TAA and massive performance hit of supersampling.

I've seen some people recommend combining TAA with a ReShade sharpening filter, but I rarely use ReShade so I'm not really familiar with this technique or even what settings to use. If someone could elaborate on this, it'd be great.

[Evol_Prodigy]

Set the options on your card instead of allowing the game to dictate.

[Chubzdoomer]

Originally posted by Aeryk:

Set the options on your card instead of allowing the game to dictate.

According to this post, forcing MSAA does nothing:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/552520/discussions/0/1698294337787580267/

[Mercenary]

I too made a thread about this.
If you have an Nvidia card, you can try enabling MSAA through the driver software. Sadly I tried this on my Radeon software and it did absolutely nothing.
What's really worrying is almost all triple A games only use garbage SMAA, TAA or FXAA. Games such as Call of Duty WW2, Battlefield 1, F1 2017, Far Cry Primal, Far Cry 5, the list keeps going on and on. Beautiful MSAA has been abondened like a used up prostitute because there fancy rendering engines "don't support it".
PC games from 5 years ago are looking better than these new games: because you only have a choice between jaggie fest or vaseline blur.
Or spending $2000 on a rig that will support 200% supersampling at 1080p.
It is BS.

[bfricka]

For me at least, the TAA solution is quite good. I've only seen a few other games that can compare (the best, by far, being Assassin's Creed: Origins). I haven't noticed any softness at all. That said, if you're running 1080p, this isn't an uncommon complaint against TAA. But at 1440p and above it looks great.

A couple things you might try. Enable FXAA in NVIDIA Control Panel. Or, try using reshade with either SMAA or FXAA and adjust the settings until you get the best image you can.

Sorry it's not great for you. I have this issue w/ FFXV: The TAA implementation is awful, with lots of ghosting and artifacts, and it doesn't even do a very good job with reducing aliasing. FXAA is even worse. That game actually looks great w/ 125% super sampling, but it's so poorly optimized, I can't really get close to running that even w/ a 1080 Ti.

[AstroAss]

2080Ti SLI rig here and TAA is really quite nice at 5K. I'll personally see if I can enable FXAA to get me somewhere between TAA and no AA, because even at 5K res I prefer to have some anti-aliasing and the problem with TAA is that it doesn't run on multi-GPU setups, only if I run a single card (at which point 5K ultra + TAA gives me only 40-60fps).

I'm in the boat with Mercenary - new games are severely lacking in AA capability. Luckily, I can just use DSR or supersampling (my rig can even run FarCry5 at 4K with 200% supersampling equivalent to 8K in total before running out of GPU memory, still playing at 50-ish fps), but not everyone is in such a position with their rigs. FXAA is good at high resolutions and it's basically free, but it's not really great at lower resolutions, like 1080p.
Not really sure what to say here... AA options are very limited nowdays...

[Neekzu]

Single RTX Titan Rig here. 1 Year later and still no fix :(

[Sgt. Brown]

My two cents; I run a 2080 super on a system that needs an upgrade (for everything except the graphics card). And I'm still using a 1080 monitor. I found TAA looks ugly as hell because of the blur. But, cranking up the resolution scale in the video setting helps alot. Obviously this is hardware demanding but it reduces any aliasing effects and after that, it looks very neat with TAA.

[Sir_0v3rk1ll]

use a higher resolution. for example if you use 1080p and your monitor is 1080 use 4k resolution. Its actually better to force higher resolutions than to use AA

[SoldierScar]

Originally posted by 0V3RK1LL:

use a higher resolution. for example if you use 1080p and your monitor is 1080 use 4k resolution. Its actually better to force higher resolutions than to use AA

But most of the people don't want to play at 30 fps..TAA+Sharpening is just fine.

[AstroAss]

Originally posted by SoldierScar:

Originally posted by 0V3RK1LL:

use a higher resolution. for example if you use 1080p and your monitor is 1080 use 4k resolution. Its actually better to force higher resolutions than to use AA

But most of the people don't want to play at 30 fps..TAA+Sharpening is just fine.

Always depends on the hardware in question, but if your GPU can't push past 30fps at 4K - yeah, perfectly understandable...
1080p looks like a pixelated mess when you play at 4K ane beyond, tho...

[Bass Junkie]

Taa + Nvidia panel sharpening @ 0.70

= Win

Taa + sharpening runs hell of alot better then msaa .