How to enable TAA for Dragon Quest XI?

[Dvo]

I heard that you can enable TAA with this injector, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Any advice?

[Kaldaien]

You can, but it is broken. I would avoid it, it creates visible artifacts around objects that use per-object motion blur (which includes your chracter as well as other characters). It's obnoxious enough that I'd consider TAA completely broken.

[JBeckman]

It's Unreal Engine 4 they can't have broken it that badly could they?
https://framedsc.github.io/GeneralGuides/universal_ue4_consoleunlocker.htm

Pop that in use ~ (Tilde) or Tab and this command specifically.

r.PostProcessAAQuality

0 to 6

0 is off, 1 I believe is FXAA and 2 being higher-quality FXAA

3 to 5 being TAA with 4 as the usual game value

6 as a sort of very high quality temporal AA method mostly for non-realtime usage but it does work although it's a good idea to monitor framerate and maybe reduce it down to 5 if it takes too much of a toll on the GPU and starts causing framerate drops and stuttering. :)


There's other commands for fine tuning it from TAA sharpening, number of samples or just invoking max quality mode overall but for TAA itself that should be good.

r.MotionBlurQuality

0 to 4

0 would disable it 4 would be the highest quality, if there are issues with motion blur this will disable it. :)


Scalability or the user config option could work but this works as well, multiple cvars are also possible via the | divider.

r.PostProcessAAQuality 6|r.MotionBlurQuality 0

Like so.



EDIT: Or the full everything.

sg.ResolutionQuality 100|sg.ShadingQuality 4|sg.AntiAliasingQuality 4|sg.ShadowQuality 4|sg.FoliageQuality 4|sg.ViewDistanceQuality 4|sg.PostProcessQuality 4|sg.EffectsQuality 4|sg.TextureQuality 4|r.Shadow.DistanceScale 2|r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM 0|r.Streaming.PoolSize 4096|r.Streaming.MaxTempMemoryAllowed 256|r.SSR.Quality 4|r.ViewDistanceScale 2|r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale 0.01|r.MaxQualityMode 1|r.ScreenPercentage 100


Commands can just be copy pasted.

Careful with the R.SSR.Quality setting, it's a whole lot better than the grainy noisy normal value of 3 but it also costs upwards of 40% extra all on it's own.

Shading quality is a newer preset group in 4.22 or more recent, mostly used for I believe some of the advanced hair rendering effects introduced to the engine.

Screen percentage can be used for super-sampling, also incredibly demanding but it really counters the TAA blurriness and general aliasing improvements.

[Kaldaien]

It's Square-Enix, anything that can be broken will be. Even things that cannot be broken ... they'll find a way :P

[JBeckman]

I'll forever wonder what happened to Last Remnant, PC specific improvements, fully unlocked framerate and resolution support, mouse and keyboard supported well plus gamepad of course and it ran really well only missing two smaller DLC from memory.


Then that got pulled from Steam some year back and the UE4 powered remaster got released but only on console, what?

Engine wise and for all their ports and studios even some of the western acquisitions via Eidos and outsourced PC porting they've never really hit that standard again, UE3 is or was really good but it too is very open to being modified and can see even basic functionality broken or messed up.


Final Fantasy 15 got close only hindered by the struggles of the development team and effort behind this leading to a too early pause of support and pretty much termination of content updates finalizing one of the three year 2 DLC with the others wrapped up through a short novel story instead.
(Bit more polish and a bit less executive pressure for the online bit being focused on and that could have been a really good port too.)


The Dragon Quest XI team (Armor Project?) didn't do a bad job or anything, would be nice if the Switch version improvements would be patched in around September / October (Standard year length exclusivity.) but that's a pretty big if since Nintendo were more directly involved in these enhancements.