NVidia Anti-Aliasing Guide (updated)

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by psyside

How to use SSAA in Crsysis Warhead DX10?

The YxY Modes?
You can try 0x000002C1 . If YxY modes don't work, you can try SGSSAA.

This flag also works for SGSSAA in DX10 for DMC4

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

The SLI flag I used for Spider-Man causes some very weird framerate behaviour so I wouldn't recommend using it. The game runs better (unsurprisingly) on one GPU. The 0x00401045 flag does work and makes the game look lovely IMO but it is glitchy. Performance is erratic and the graphics go all untextured and psychedelic *only* when swinging through the city.

I've a feeling that the flag I'm using is close but I don't know enough about how they work to tweak them. Anyone else want to try?

This makes me wonder about those who create custom bits.. I wish they'd put up like a tutorial or something on how to tweak bits.

[psyside]

Can you explain me a bit better? im not good with Nvidia Inspector...

Edit, with that flag does not work, but im not sure what i should setup at other settings.

[aufkrawall]

Originally Posted by MrBonk

The YxY Modes?
You can try 0x000002C1 . If YxY modes don't work, you can try SGSSAA.

Just SGSSAA works without errors and you have to adjust the config to avoid blur:
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...postcount=2276

[psyside]

Originally Posted by aufkrawall

Just SGSSAA works without errors and you have to adjust the config to avoid blur:
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...postcount=2276

Need DX9? DX10 wont work?

[Budr]

Originally Posted by MrBonk

You know, I did add the Inversion.Exe to the profile and that's what I was getting. :/ I guess i'll have to try again

Did you have any luck getting this working? I seem to be having the same problem.

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by Budr

Did you have any luck getting this working? I seem to be having the same problem.

nope. And using this flag on other games like The Last Remnant causes the same thing to happen


I wonder if anyone here who speaks german or is a member over at 3D center could ask those guys how they get their "custom bits" ? Do they make them? Or do they modify existing bits?

[aufkrawall]

Originally Posted by psyside

Need DX9? DX10 wont work?

Works only with DX9.
But that doesn't really matter since with DX10 the only additional feature is motion blur for objects, which you have to disable anyway to avoid extreme blurring over the whole screen with SGSSAA.

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by aufkrawall

Works only with DX9.
But that doesn't really matter since with DX10 the only additional feature is motion blur for objects, which you have to disable anyway to avoid extreme blurring over the whole screen with SGSSAA.

Object motion blur +Camera Motion blur> just Camera motion blur imho.

Also: You can just use "R_useedgeaa=2" +FXAA/SMAA and still get great results for little cost. Even more if you downsample with it.
(Or you can do FSAA/MSAA and then use SMAA or FXAA for Subpixel details along with downsampling as well to get a great effect most likely)

(Edgeaa=2 +FXAA)

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*Sorry for JPG compression. These were taken 6+ months ago with Crysis set to JPG instead of BMP (stupidly)*


Besides, these days unless you have an old pooter, the difference between performance in DX10vDX9 shouldn't be that large with this game.

But if you really just want straightforward AA, DX9 MSAA+TrAA+SMAA might be better and will have less blur than SGSSAA.

[sparrow1911]

So no proper flag for Amazing Spider-Man?

[PhazeDelta1]

Anyone have an AA flag for Just Cause 2? Or would I be better off just using the ingame AA/AF?

Thanks

[MfA]

Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

Anyone have an AA flag for Just Cause 2? Or would I be better off just using the ingame AA/AF?

Thanks

isnt enhancing ingame aa with sgssaa work ?

[PhazeDelta1]

Originally Posted by MfA

isnt enhancing ingame aa with sgssaa work ?

Not sure. But I can definitely try it. If it doesn't work out, i'll just use the in game AA/AF.

[MfA]

Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

Not sure. But I can definitely try it. If it doesn't work out, i'll just use the in game AA/AF.

it should work, ive seen benchmarks on 3dc..

[PhazeDelta1]

Originally Posted by MfA

it should work, ive seen benchmarks on 3dc..

I can't tell the difference using 4x SGSSAA with the in game 4x AA, 16x AF I think i'm going blind.

It has to be working because my vram usage went up quite a bit.

[aufkrawall]

Unfortunately, MSAA of JC2 doesn't work too well, so enhancing to SGSSAA won't either.

[psyside]

How do you enable FXAA/SMAA in Crysis?

And doesen't DX10 meant also some other benefits in Crysis?

Also does SSAA work with SMAA?

Can anyone do a small guide? thanks guys

[Shadowdane]

No aa flag here... but figured out how to get FSAA working in Minecraft!
Wow the game looks awesome with smooth edges. Notch really should get in-game AA working, the game looks sooo much better!

You have to match MSAA with TSSAA for it to work in game. 4x or higher looks awesome. The screenshots below are all with 4X MSAA & 4x TSSAA. Tried SGSSAA but I couldn't get it working.



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[Cyberdyne]

Old. Most avoid doing that since it can have problems with pretty much any app that uses java. A better option would be to use Optifine. It's a mod, easy enough to find, just make sure you get the version that adds AA. (It also adds crazy high view distance, mipmaping, and crap like that).

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by psyside

How do you enable FXAA/SMAA in Crysis?

And doesen't DX10 meant also some other benefits in Crysis?

Also does SSAA work with SMAA?

Can anyone do a small guide? thanks guys

DX10 has stuff like Object Motion blur instead of just Camera Motion blur.

SSAA can be kind of ambiguous, because does that mean you are using driver downsampling?(OGSSAA) Transparency Super Sampling?(TrAA) Forced FSAA?
etc


As far as SMAA/FXAA, you have a few options.
You can enable FXAA via Nvidia Inspector/Nvidia Control Panel (This is the easiest way to enable FXAA Be careful though, Driver Forced FXAA will only show up in screenshots that you capture with "Print Screen")




Your other option is to download this http://kiwi6.com/file/89s8t9of76
, and put it in the "Bin32" sub folder of the Crysis directory(doesn't work for the 64-bit version. Though driver FXAA may. I have not tried this), when you boot the game up it will be automatically activated. And you can deactivate/activate it with the "Pause break" key.


For SMAA you need to find SMAA 1.2 Injector DX10 and use it in the same way as the above FXAA injector.

My advice is to just use Driver FXAA since it's the easiest to enable.




Just enable that, enable MSAA in game and then run the game at a higher than your native resolution for Downsampling (OGSSAA)and you are good to go.

[Darren Hodgson]

Has anyone come up with a working AA flag for Darksiders II that doesn't render Death invisible on the Upgrades screen like the 0x000012C4 flag does that NVIDIA provide with the v305.xx drivers?

[aufkrawall]

I find the motion blur in Crysis 1 to suck at all, just like the DoF that blurs things that it shouldn't.
If the GPU is limiting fps, there's no advantage of the DX10 version at all when not using motion blur.

The advantage of DX9 is that you can enforce perfect SGSSAA which removes aliasing best.
FXAA, MSAA and OGSSAA won't reduce shader aliasing (e.g. specular lighting on palm leaves) well and alphatests will still be noisy while movement.

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by aufkrawall

I find the motion blur in Crysis 1 to suck at all, just like the DoF that blurs things that it shouldn't.
If the GPU is limiting fps, there's no advantage of the DX10 version at all when not using motion blur.

The advantage of DX9 is that you can enforce perfect SGSSAA which removes aliasing best.
FXAA, MSAA and OGSSAA won't reduce shader aliasing (e.g. specular lighting on palm leaves) well and alphatests will still be noisy while movement.

I love the motion blur in Crysis. It might be my favorite MB implementation ever.


Specular aliasing in Crysis is relatively tame anyway. It's no where near the insane levels of Specular aliasing in UE3 games

Also: "R_motionblurshutterspeed=0.033" in DX10 creates a less annoying Motion blur effect.


I forgot to mention that download I linked to for FXAA, you need to drop that into the Crysis main dir. It has the subfolder for bin32 already in it.



MSAA+FXAA+OGSSAA may not completely get rid of all specular aliasing, but it still looks pretty damn great.

2736x1532 4XMSAA +FXAA downsampled to 1080p

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Downsampled with no FXAA

Especially compared to NOAA

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[MrBonk]

BTW: You can force SGSSAA in DX10 in Crysis with Inspector set to "Enhance"(Or Override But you still have to have ingame aa set) and in game AA set to the corresponding samples

Enhance 4XSGSSAA
Without (Just 4XMSAA. Erratic FPS with this game. Which is why there is more FPS on the SGSSAA shot of one than the other. But lower in the other shot)

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With

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Override(still need to set in game AA) 4XSGSSAA (1600x900 and 1080p)

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Override In-game AA set to 0

In Game set to 4X

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1080p Shots 4XSGSSAA/compare to MSAA/OGSSAA/FXAA

It works with no bits and 0x000002C1 set in (Anti aliasing compatibility D1x)


8XSGSSAA

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Inspector settings

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

Has anyone come up with a working AA flag for Darksiders II that doesn't render Death invisible on the Upgrades screen like the 0x000012C4 flag does that NVIDIA provide with the v305.xx drivers?

0x00001241 ?
from
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=8571

[PowerK]

Cheers for the informative post, MrBonk.

I recently played through Crysis again with 4xMSAA + 4xSGSSAA. Loved every moment of it.

Is that AA compatibility bits (0x000002C1) better than nVIDIA's default AA bits ?

Also, is there better SLI compatibility bits for Crysis ? Generally, SLI scaling seems good in Crysis (when you're not CPU bound), but I wonder if there're better SLI compatibility bits for Crysis.. (like GTA4, Diablo 3, Mafia 2 etc.. there are better SLI compatibility bits found by users).

[MrBonk]

Originally Posted by PowerK

Cheers for the informative post, MrBonk.

I recently played through Crysis again with 4xMSAA + 4xSGSSAA. Loved every moment of it.

Is that AA compatibility bits (0x000002C1) better than nVIDIA's default AA bits ?

Also, is there better SLI compatibility bits for Crysis ? Generally, SLI scaling seems good in Crysis (when you're not CPU bound), but I wonder if there're better SLI compatibility bits for Crysis.. (like GTA4, Diablo 3, Mafia 2 etc.. there are better SLI compatibility bits found by users).

Actually, at least in DX10 the quality between no bits. And 2C1 is the same. I just happened to have that in there when I took the shot of Inspector. Most of these shots were with no bits.

As far as SLi goes, I can't help there. I don't have an SLi system nor have I ever used it. So i'm clueless sorry.

You could always test yourself with various SLi compatibility bits in Inspector and see what you can find out.(There are a lot of them for D1x from what I see)