ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) Noticing allot of Youtubers are having FXAA, MSAA and TXAA all on at the same time in there settings guide vids.... You should only be using one, not three different anti aliasing tech at once.... you only use FXAA when your system cant handle MSAA or TXAA, TXAA was a new tech by Nvidia built to replace FXAA to give you MSAA levels of quality but without the massive system resource hits that MSAA would cost you They need to learn about the things they are talking about before posting advice. Running 3 different types of AA is just obscured. Edited April 15, 2015 by ltajax Glumok, MrDemeulemeester and Rafael1703 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topeira Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 what is the downside of using all three AA systems together? too blurry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 what is the downside of using all three AA systems together? too blurry? You needlessly wasting video ram by having each frame sampled by your AA 3 times over when it offers no difference in quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonaldo Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 If you enable TXAA along with MSAA x2, it gives you the quality of MSAA x4 without such big performance drop And if you enable TXAA along with MSAA x4, it gives you the quality of MSAA x8 without such big performance drop Rafael1703 and MrDemeulemeester 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydianduck Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) Well, you can't use TXAA without MSAA, according to the graphics menu anyway. Also, as I mentioned in another post, FXAA via nvidia's control panel is WAY better at eliminating aliasing than the one in-game, for those who don't want the massive impact of MSAA, you should try it! Edited April 15, 2015 by lydianduck lonestranger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) If you enable TXAA along with MSAA x2, it gives you the quality of MSAA x4 without such big performance drop And if you enable TXAA along with MSAA x4, it gives you the quality of MSAA x8 without such big performance drop FXAA is 60% faster than MSAA x4 and gives sharp results. http://www.evga.com/articles/00729/images/univ/FXAA_MSAA.jpg also there is the performance difference. Well, you can't use TXAA without MSAA, according to the graphics menu anyway. Also, as I mentioned in another post, FXAA via nvidia's control panel is WAY better at eliminating aliasing than the one in-game, for those who don't want the massive impact of MSAA, you should try it! TXAA should be independent of MSAA as they are two separate things Edited April 15, 2015 by ltajax Thalyn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRunner Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Is There any guide for pc settings? GrandTeaRedemption 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydianduck Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) You might be right, idk, but the game doesn't allow you to activate it with without MSAA, that's a fact. Edited April 15, 2015 by lydianduck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 You might be right, idk, but the game doesn't allow you to activate with without MSAA, that's a fact. well thats the first time ive heard of that, .... very strange. Although that could have something to do with the fact they have a separate setting for reflection MSAA effects etc. Might be co-dependent. lydianduck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak327 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I have FXAA enabled without having MSAA enabled. Regardless of the reflection MSAA settings. I cannot enabled Nvida TXAA I guess that's last gen GPU's only ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 I have FXAA enabled without having MSAA enabled. Regardless of the reflection MSAA settings. I cannot enabled Nvida TXAA I guess that's last gen GPU's only ? as far as i know txaa was introduced with the maxwell cards from nvidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjeerd84 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I try to avoid AA as much as possible, because it tends to blur the image. In some games, like GTA V, you see a lot of 'edges' and only then I apply a small amount of AA. Of all the options in GTA V, MSAA is the one with the sharpest image. MSAA also is the heaviest for the GPU, but the game still runs smooth on very high settings on my pc. The one AA-mode I would never use is FXAA (which was on by default!?) which really blurs alot, without actually improving edges much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak327 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I have FXAA enabled without having MSAA enabled. Regardless of the reflection MSAA settings. I cannot enabled Nvida TXAA I guess that's last gen GPU's only ? as far as i know txaa was introduced with the maxwell cards from nvidia I looked it up, it's supported since Kepler. I have a GTX770 but cannot enable it ingame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 that's wierd you should definatly be able to use it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak327 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 that's wierd you should definatly be able to use it.... I would have thought so, but in fact it is greyed out. Disabling FXAA doesn't suddenly enable the setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepas Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 that's wierd you should definatly be able to use it.... I would have thought so, but in fact it is greyed out. Disabling FXAA doesn't suddenly enable the setting. You need to turn on MSAA to use TXAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balderstach Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I have the option of TXAA with my GTX 970, but only if I enable at least 2x MSAA first. I will try enabling just TXAA through the Nvidia Control Panel when I get home. Regarding FXAA, it doesn't work that well in GTA V for me, objects at a distance still look pixelated and some textures become almost transparent in some weird way. I hope that the performance hit won't be as large with only TXAA enabled as it is with both MSAA and TXAA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kravis Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Does Tessilation works? And how it influences the performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltajax Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 tesselation is mainly for trees etc from what i can see. Tesselation can be a large hit depending on how much is going on in the scene/area. if you dont have a decent video card from the past 18 months id leave it of until you have had a chance to tweak, test and run some benchmarks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak327 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) that's wierd you should definatly be able to use it.... I would have thought so, but in fact it is greyed out. Disabling FXAA doesn't suddenly enable the setting. You need to turn on MSAA to use TXAA Doesn't that defeat the purpose ? I thought that TXAA was a more performant replacement of MSAA, or are you saying that by enabling both options I actually end up with TXAA and thus would have a smaller performance hit ? Well, going to try and see what the performance hit is. With MSAAx2 I already see around 5 fps less as opposed to TXAA so not a biggie. Edited April 15, 2015 by sjaak327 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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