Nvidia Inspector SGSSAA

Getting SGSSAA to work with Dynasty Warriors 7 so you don't have resort to using FXAA

Preamble

So came back to this game after owning it for a while.

One of the things that Dynasty Warriors 7 on PC has always bothered me compared to Dynasty Warriors 8 is that there seemed to no good AA solution beyond FXAA in the control panel or injecting SMAA/FXAA with external tools.

However FXAA and SMAA by post processing means does not solve the shimmering issue that occurs from aliasing and messes with UI elements on top of that.

So I spent a day testing out different values for the compatibility bits section.
After a while, I finally came across a setting that seems to work.

Nvidia Inspector

1 - Compatibility

Antialiasing Compatibility: 0x00401840

3 - Antialiasing

Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application settings
Antialiasing - Setting: 2x [2x Multisampling]
Antialiasing - Transparency Multisampling: Enabled
Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling: 2x Sparse Grid Supersampling

You can go 4x or 8x times but for my purposes I find 2x to be sufficient.
Just make sure to have Setting and Transparency Supersampling on the same value.
(4x Mulit for 4x SGSSAA, 8x Multi for 8x SGSSAA)

Additional Settings

4 - Texture Filtering

Anisotropic Filtering Mode: User Defined / Off
Anisotropic Filtering Setting: 16x
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias: Clamp
Texture Filtering - Quality: High Quality

FXAA can be turn on in the previous section if you so choose for some light blurring on top.
Although again, I do not recommend it due to the previously mentioned UI issues.

[Rawhaki]

Awesome~! It works properly this time. I don't see any weird glitches or bugs, but I'll be sure to report again if I do see them. Thanks for the hard work NecroPoster~!

[Rawhaki]

Oh I see it. Thanks. checking it now.

[Rawhaki]

Sorry, with what bit good sir?

[NecroPoster]

No idea how I missed that. Could you retry with this bit instead?

[Rawhaki]

I think the bug happens when you switch the 'Anti-aliasing - Mode' to 'Override any application settings'.

[Rawhaki]

Yo, thanks for the effort. But unfortunately this breaks some of the effects of the game. You can see waterfalls, cold breathings and other effects through characters and solid objects :/