Aliasing Issue

DBentt

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Apologies if this is the wrong section.

I recently upgraded to an EVGA reference 670. At first it seemed fine, didn't notice any problems. But... eventually I started getting some pretty massive aliasing in every game I try to play, and over the past few weeks I've been attempting to root out the cause of it. I'm not talking a small amount of aliasing here and there that you'd expect, I mean massive, abnormal amounts, so much that every edge shimmers when the scene is in motion, and it is incredibly distracting.

It doesn't matter what resolution I play at or how high I stick the AA up to, it's still prevalent, mostly on small things like hanging rope, cables, if something has ornamentation or a lot of little creases and bumps and stuff that's all aliased (standing stones in skyrim, armor in skyrim and tera, etc.). I play at 1920x1200 in most every game, if I go windowed I go down to 1680x1050, and rarely I dial it down to 1920x1080 or 1680x1050 in fullscreen too, I've tried FXAA, MSAA 2x~16xQ, I've even tried SSAA in games that support it, but the aliasing remains.

My eyes just may be going, but I'm almost positive that my old 480 did not have this happening, and I am absolutely certain that I didn't have immense aliasing all over the place in Skyrim, FFXI, and TERA no matter how high I set AA (or in the case of FFXI, manual supersampling as it does not support antialiasing). Is this an issue with Kepler GPUs? Is my card possibly bad? I've tweaked every setting possible, reinstalled my drivers, have rolled back to pre-300 drivers... all in hopes of fixing it, but no dice. I can say that I think that I noticed it get worse after I used Skyrim's FXAA injector, uninstalled it, and tried ENBSeries... but those are just DX9 injectors... that wouldn't cause problems surely.



tl;dr do Kepler GPUs have issues with antialiasing/rendering massive amounts of aliasing, or is my card bad


Thanks for your time. Sorry again if this is the wrong place.
 
Underclocking has no effect unfortunately.

Added tidbit: When configuring Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and turning on AA, at the bottom of the window it says "Your driver settings are overriding any Anti Aliasing setting!". My drivers are set to default, all of the Antialiasing settings are set to Application Controlled in both Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector.
 
Aye... I went into Safe Mode to uninstall everything as well. Would reinstalling DirectX possibly fix it? It sounds like a really bad idea, but something that might work.
 
could be worth a try i suppose.
another thing worth trying is ensuring all connections are full seated. ie remove card and power connectors, dust em and reseat em all
if this fails try reinstalling the old card, if the problem has vanished, then it would point towards the new card possibly being faulty
 
No dice... made a video to make sure it isn't just my eyes.

This is done at 1920x1200, maximum settings (16x Anisotropic Filtering, 8x Antialiasing, all dials cranked to absolute max)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jffUPU2Pt0

I dunno, maybe I'm just overly sensitive but... I can almost swear that I've never seen aliasing this bad before. Is it as abnormal as I'd assumed?


edit: bleh it didn't come out very well in the video, youtube kinda butchered it. you can still sort of see the shimmering though, and if you look closely on the bridge you can see that it's basically a staircase.
 
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Duh, try the drivers that came with the card, could be a buggy release. If you're already running the out-the-box drivers, update to the latest and if that fails keep trying other drivers incase you find one that works. Might be a conflict with your model of 670.
 
I've got the EVGA Cross-Ship plan thing that lets me turn in the broken one after I receive the new one, so that really wouldn't be an issue, just didn't want to expend my warranty without knowing if I could avoid it, but I suppose I will.

Kind of a shame too, I went on the EVGA website to inquire about it and noticed that the FTW version is now the same price as what I paid for reference. :(
 
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