ATI/AMD's new Morphological Anti-aliasing

[ViRuS2k]

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MORPHOLOGICAL AA INFORMATION :

Surface Format Optimizations

Recently a storm-in-a-teacup developed over something called target format substitution. In six titles, AMD developed a profile that intercepted calls to FP16 formats and substituted them for FP11. In practice this made a noticeable performance difference at the time on the titles used, which are all DirectX 9. This substitution is a widely used technique by developers to increase performance without substantially, if at all, reducing image quality. The optimization could be turned off, but only by disabling Catalyst AI - which disables all performance and quality profiles, and alternate frame rendering. The kickback, generated from Nvidia review guides highlighting the substitution and advising that Cat AI be disabled, caused a consensus amongst the community; 'We want enhanced profiles, but we want the option to disable - consumer choice.'


New Catalyst AI, Texture Quality and Surface Format Optimization Controls

AMD listened to this, and now offers a checkbox to disable surface format optimizations. Use this option if you are experiencing quality issues in a game and suspect that this is the problem; not many times will you find it solves the issue. Additionally, AMD combined the Catalyst AI and mipmaps detail level sliders, to make the new texture filtering quality slider. This offers performance, quality and high quality modes, with quality and surface format optimizations enabled by default. This will apply to HD 5000 series as well as HD 6000 series, to be introduced in the AMD Radeon HD 6000 launch driver due now, Catalyst 10.10.

Fundamentally it shows AMD are engaged with the enthusiast community and value their feedback.





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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR 5800 SERIES CARDS ONLY

Download this file - http://www.mediafire.com/?m45q04k70m4d28i
Download the hotfix - http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU84AMDCatalyst1010aHotfix.aspx

Extract the hotfix
Extract the MLAA INF.rar file

Then just follow this:
Copy CW106976.inf to \Catalyst_8.782.1RC5_Win7_MLAA_Oct21\Pac kages\Drivers\Display\W7_INF\

Copy C7106976.inf to \Catalyst_8.782.1RC5_Win7_MLAA_Oct21\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF\

Now start the setup and the function should be unlocked in CCC.

OR

Just download this file modifications already applied and do a complete reinstall

http://www.mediafire.com/?5h6cpooivo4sbox

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IMAGES *


Dead space:::::

CC control pannel : Application preference = 0xaa MLAA box Ticked

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This new feature is fantastico, can you guess what is useing MLAA and what is not useing MLAA

with MLAA enabled its like your playing the game with 0xaa performance with what looks like 4xaa in use


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More images

Final Fantasy with a 2x Zoom on the image

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Starcraft II, awsomeness again with MLAA enabled its like your running the game with 0xaa with performance to boot, last mission constant 60fps *example 5970*

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Half Life II

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Ano 1404.. MLAA

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Dragons Age Origins

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Hard to see on Crysis but its there and can be seen

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Age Of Conan

MLAA : http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff144/derFeef/Screenshots/Age of Conan/th_aoc_MLAA.png
NO MLAA : http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff144/derFeef/Screenshots/Age of Conan/th_aoc_noMLAA.png

Images are to big so copy/paste to address bar/or click

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Crysis Again

Can you tell what is on and what is off ;P

and again

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Masseffect II MLAA Zoomed 2x Effectiveness 0% Performance HIT

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PERFORMANCE and STATISTICAL information

MLAA vs 8xaa

Important: In PC it runs 11.8x faster than MSAA 8X
Important: In PC it runs 11.8x faster than MSAA 8X
Important: In PC it runs 11.8x faster than MSAA 8X
Important: In PC it runs 11.8x faster than MSAA 8X
Important: In PC it runs 11.8x faster than MSAA 8X

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[ViRuS2k]

Neato. So what you're saying is there is no performance hit using MLAA?

That is exactly what im saying.

 

[ViRuS2k]

is MLAA only available on the 6 series ? and works with every game ?

It is a launch 6800 series feature with 10.10a hotfix drivers.
and will be added for 5800 series cards in the future catylist build

but there is a mod fix to allow 5800 series users to use it right now with the 6800 series guys untill its fully supported.

this new feature uses direct compute 5.1 so its only going to be supported by 58xxx and 68xxx cards.

 

[ViRuS2k]

^^^
Yes, from what I understand...

wrong

 

[ViRuS2k]

How so?

Check out the Guru3d forums graphics section to enable MLAA options in CCC for 58xxx series cards.

as you can see by my image working on a 5800 series card 5900 actually lol

 

[ViRuS2k]

But does this AA work with all games on the 6800's?

i guess its also dependant on driver updates but what doesnt work on 5800 should also not work on 6800 series.

like all driver updates its prone to update based fixes.

 

[ViRuS2k]

Can this sort of stuff be applied to consoles as well? I mean not as a user option but more like a software update that enables this sort of technology allowing a little more to be squeezed from them

I read somewhere that PS3 will possibly be adding it first then followed by 360.

 

[ViRuS2k]

Would this work on GTA4??

I read somewhere that it indeed does work with GTa4.

 

[ViRuS2k]

Well there yo go guys, proof is in the pudding, will update main post once more images are done so guys get adding images to show the effectiveness of this new technology

 

[ViRuS2k]

Very smooth and very analyzed

 

[ViRuS2k]

Always hated the jaggies in dead space and there was noway to force AA with Nvidia or AMD....until now, looks good.



Looking at the image behind the results it does not look too hot, can you do us a full screen image with the results.

I could but not sure how to capture the screen grab yet lol as when i print screen it shows the image on my desktop with no MLAA lol only in fullscreen it shows it due to the filter though i think amd brought out a tool to do it, going on a search spree lol

 

[ViRuS2k]

Fraps?

Just tryed fraps doesnt work.

 

[ViRuS2k]

Eh, this MLAA must be some sort of magic then.

Its becuse you need a image capturing of the final image after the frame buffer not before it like traditional images are captured

 

[ViRuS2k]

Can somene post how to get this working on 5 series?

In this very thread, lol some people are blind

 

[ViRuS2k]

has AMD said MLAA will be coming to the 5800 series also?

i can't find any info on them saying this.

Yes, catylist maker has already said in a later catylist releae possibly 10.11s.
there are ways to enable it unofficially though

 

[ViRuS2k]

i've done the mod and the options are in CCC but i can't see any different from no AA to MLAA. it's either not working or i'm doing something wrong.

You must be doing something wrong then cause the games i have worked, though there are a few instances where it doesnt apply to some dx 11 or dx10 games. those are specifically down to the type of AA they use ect.

 

[ViRuS2k]

MLAA enabled
Surface Optimizations disabled....

Looking Sweet