Anti-Aliasing Question.

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abasers

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Hello,

I'm sorry if this seems like a noob question but I've started playing games on higher settings, pretty much because I can and it's something that I haven't messed about with much of before.

Currently I have a GTX 580 without any overclock and can play at reasonable fps on high-max settings with 4X AA ( Depending on the game ) but could overclocking increase my fps at higher AA settings such as 8X, 16X?

Thanks for looking.
 
Put simply, yes! However sometimes an overclock isn't enough to achieve the extra AA you're after at the same frame rates
 
So it's something more determined by architecture and things of that nature? Meaning that I'd probably be better upgrading if I want to get good fps at max settings, maybe something like a gtx780 or x2 760s?
 
no not at all. It's a variety of factors. What res you're running at, what game it is (Some game engines may run high AA better than others). The 580 is still a great card. If you're only gaming at 1080p I would overclock it and see how it fairs. I think a lot of people obsess too much over having high AA when sometimes it's barely noticeable past a certain point.


You could even say that when we start using 4K and above res that AA won't be as important because the pixel density is so high that we don't notice the jaggys as much
 
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Anything above 4x AA is pretty pointless. The increase after 4x AA is not that noticeable and the performance hit is huge. Personally I only run 4x AA in games that benefit from it, other games i just run 2x.
 
Definetly. The only point you would notice the AA makes a huge difference is in the larger than 1080p or 1440x900 + resolutions, also depending on the game, Graphics drivers, PciE Bus speed... there are many factors.
 
supersting said:
Definetly. The only point you would notice the AA makes a huge difference is in the larger than 1080p or 1440x900 + resolutions, also depending on the game, Graphics drivers, PciE Bus speed... there are many factors.
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You mean would not?
Drivers to a certain extent and PCIE bus speed? Um.No, not at all.
 
AA would be more noticeable if you were playing at 1080 on a 32 inch monitor than say a 23 inch like me. As the resolution gets higher AA becomes LESS necessary
 
I'm sure some games don't even offer full 16x AA now, if I'm remembering right doesn't Battlefield 4 offer no higher than 4x?
 
i think that depends heavily on the game. Far Cry 3 barely looks any better with AA enabled, so it's just a framekiller, but for example BF3 (didn't play it much but it bothered me a hell of a lot) looks like garbage without AA.
 
SeekaX said:
far cry 3 maxed out with AA runs at 30-40 fps, without AA it runs at 70-100fps and it still looks like AA is enabled.
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Certainly will try that, hope it looks just as good. Now I need to know why Arkham Origins is only at 21fps (yet it still feels smooth, weird).
 
most engines employ their own kind of smoothing of sorts to get rid of jaggies now. all AA does is add further over-head and in the case of battlefield actually makes the image less sharp (annoyingly). Injectors can/will fix that.

Speaking of which, anyone found a FXAA injector for bf4 yet? last one I tried wasn't having any of it.
 
SuB said:
most engines employ their own kind of smoothing of sorts to get rid of jaggies now. all AA does is add further over-head and in the case of battlefield actually makes the image less sharp (annoyingly). Injectors can/will fix that.

Speaking of which, anyone found a FXAA injector for bf4 yet? last one I tried wasn't having any of it.
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isn't that ban worthy in BF aka oppressor of mods?
 
SuB said:
most engines employ their own kind of smoothing of sorts to get rid of jaggies now. all AA does is add further over-head and in the case of battlefield actually makes the image less sharp (annoyingly). Injectors can/will fix that.

Speaking of which, anyone found a FXAA injector for bf4 yet? last one I tried wasn't having any of it.
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For Windows 8.1 x64?

This one seems to be working, it's SweetFX with EFX that makes it work apparently. It's working for me anyway with SMAA, it also has FXAA though.

http://www.multiupload.nl/ZYHB1MRQIF

You might want to edit the settings though because this is someone else's config.
 
SuB said:
No it never has been and doubt it ever will be, was always one of those rumours.

I'm after a windows 7 x64 one, does that 8.1 one work with win7?
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The normal one should work with Windows 7 x64, try the congfigurator version from here

forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=381912

If not try SweetFX with 1.4 with radeonpro

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/download_sweetfx_shader_suite_v1_4.html

If non of those work try this version

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/280/
 
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