Borderlands + ATI - oh no!?

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  1. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Hi,

    I have come from Nvidia, I like Borderlands (the first one) today I decided to give it a go, see how it was with ATI, I earlier asked if ATI had some sort of equivalent to FXAA, I was told to try Morphalogical or somet.

    Well, problem one, that seems to yeild the same results as standard AA in Borderlands, as in, It's broken in Borderlands engine.

    problem two is VSYNC, I have turned it on in CCC to find no effect at all in Borderlands.

    Any suggestions? (other than buy an Nvidia card)

    Thanks

    EDIT: Hi, OK I solved VSYNC by turning it on in willogame.ini however I am still annoyed it did not work as normal when I turned it on in the CCC - it did just fine with Nvidia, might be just a glitch so I am not too worried, however I did have some confusing VSYNC issues just yesterday with Dead Island where CCC seemed to do nothing at all, so I dunno YET.

    Anyway, turned MLAA down to 2xEQ and just had a run about, the game itself seems to run just lovely, not a stutter in sight (any break in fluidity, a serious, SERIOUS pet hate of mine) but anyway, MLAA is still unusable compared to FXAA in Borderlands.
     
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  2. Knox

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    Have you tried D3DOverride?
     
  3. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Goodness me, no, I already have MSI Afterburner, RadeonPro and now D3DOverride?

    How many of these weird tools do I need with this card..

    tbh I thought RadeonPro did FXAA however I cannot see it anywhere.
     
  4. Knox

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    It's just an older tool that's been around for awhile. It also works standalone and with nvidia cards. It was bundled with Rivatuner the forerunner too MSI Afterburner. Last i heard, MSI didn't want it in Afterburner.

    Just a little history on this subject. Unwinder, hear at guru3d, is the person that writes most of the code for MSI Afterburner, which is basically rivatuner, his earlier work.

    http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=339115

    http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=354311
     
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  5. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Thanks, I found out radeonpro does have it but only in the preview version the latest beta, so I installed that, created a borderlands.exe profile, however, FXAA does nothing, no effect at all.

    Yep just tried again, twice, FXAA simply will not activate in Borderlands using latest radeonpro, not sure I can even be arsed installing yet another program just to remove jaggies in Borderlands.

    Pretty tiresome this.
     
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  6. Caenyss

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    RadenPro and use SMAA, should work even better than FXAA.
     
  7. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Just unchecked FXAA and checked SMAA instead, set quality to high.

    Same effect, nothing, no effect at all

    tried 3 times to get SMAA to work in Borderlands using RadeonPro and getting ZERO effect every time, getting fed up with launching Borderlands now.
     
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  8. Scerate

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    Try SweetFX instead using that most of the time on my main rig and my notebook
     
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    Just to make you better understand what you are doing:
    Level slider with "2x, 2xEQ, 4x, ..." is for standard AA and works in Override mode.
    MLAA checkbox enables Morpho postprocess. Which is similar to SMAA/FXAA in principle.

    If you can't find those in RadeonPro, then uninstall it as you have old version.

    There is no game which would give fluid feeling on 60Hz without motion blur. 120Hz/144Hz LCD is good investment since you already have decent HW to drive it.

    And since you are new around. Here is link for latest RP:
    http://www.radeonpro.info/en-US/Downloads/Preview.aspx
     
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  10. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Another progam? lol I dunno man, I think I have had enough of all these, thanks though.

    Many thanks, however I do already have the latest RadeonPro, the problem is, with regards to Borderlands, nothing works, if I check FXAA I get no effect, if I check SMAA I get no effect.

    It does not work.

    I can force MLAA in CCC just fine though, however, that just brings the usual problems with Borderlands and AA. the problems FXAA never had.
     

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    SweetFX is not a program, it's an injector. It's similar to the FXAA injector. But much better. I also use SweetFX in Borderlands 2, works great and much better than FXAA.
     
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    Just tested. Borderlands 1 works perfectly with RadeonPro FXAA/SMAA.
    And with MLAA via CCC too.

    Once again, you are using incorrect CCC settings. Use:
    Mode - "Use Application Settings"
    Tick "Morphological Filtering"
    Filter - does not affect anything since "Use Application Settings" is selected.
    Slider - settings has no effect too.
     
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    I am sorr but somebody somewhere is failing to be clear on something, I just tried that and got ZERO results in Borderlands 1.

    Now, lets start from scratch, I open CCC, 3D Application Settings, hit the defaults button to be sure I am from scratch, hit APPLY, then, check Morphological Filtering, hit APPLY.

    Then launch Borderlands 1.

    This is what I have done, it yields absolutely zero results in Borderlands 1 for me.

    Latest Beta Drivers.

    Honestly I need some sort of "STEP BY STEP for complete FKN IDIOTS" because I do not know what I am doing wrong.

    Only thing that works fo rme, is in CCC if i select, override application settings and select for example, 4x.

    The, I launch Borderlands and it looks great, apart from about 90% GPU usage and purple lines round **** in the inv. (the WELL KNOWN Borderlands AA issues - only solved by FXAA)

    So...

    I have launched Borderlands about 20 times today just to see clap trap laying on his ass covered in jaggies, it's one too many times than I can take.

    I cannot find an apply button on radeonpro.

    either.
     
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  14. Mr Terry Turnip

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    Nah, this is BS, it just does not work.


    EDIT: Holy Crap.. IT WORKS! lol it was kinda not my fault and kinda my fault at the same time as I should have tried this earlier.

    I uninstalled radeonpro, deleted the folder, then reinstalled it.

    SMAA WORKS A TREAT! lol SWEEEEEET

    MANY THANKS GUYS!
     
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    Had a good run round Borderlands inc some Zombie Island - so far I am thrilled with it.

    Dunno what was going wrong earlier on however least it's sorted now,

    many thanks again.
     

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    Hrm going to have to try some of this stuff.
     
  17. Valagard

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    You're using it wrong is why

    You are supposed to turn off -ALL- in game AA, along with all AA settings and just turn on morphological AA, which is why you are having performance problems

    If you have 2xEQ AA and Morphological AA on at the same time, you are actually applying AA twice to your game, which is a huge performance waste

    Morphological works in any game I apply it even, even flash games that use Direct X calls, if its not working for you I dunno what you are doing wrong, could have driver corruption or not installed properly
     
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    You have a 7970 now no need for crappy fxaa you can prolly use ssaa or atleast amsaa. Ssaa is beautiful with edge detect enabled.
     
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    you proboly ignored the dll lock on the last install, if you have a browser open, the hook engine locks one of the files it needs.
     

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