Falling out of love with Anti-Aliasing

[Alan McFall]

I haven't even given AA a second thought when it comes to image quality, just whack it on through habbit !

 

[willhub]

Never thought about that if I'm downscaling or using DLSS why have AA enabled costing extra performance, should just disable it.

 

[Zarax]

Since you have an AMD card, you could try to turn AA and use radeon super resolution to play the game at an higher resolution than native.
I do this with older games (RSR 1440p in my 1080p monitor) and the results are quite good.

 

[pugheaven]

for some reason and it miught just be me, the implementation of TAA nowadays is poor and smudges like you've pointed out so as I'm running 4k in everything I never EVER turn it on, takes all the detail out the picture. Yet in years gone by when I turned it on... it worked... not sure how AA tech has changed BUT it's 100% not for the better so I simply leave off.

RSR is the best option in my opinion for performance, the detail it makes up for I've tested for quite sometime when running say a lower res... it's a fantastic and really underated tech tbh.

 

[arknor]

old school AA only cared about image quality and now it's a compromise.

games appear much better these days anyway even at 1080 without AA compared to back in the day, way less jaggies by default I guess rendering methods improved or something.

 

[Rroff]

old school AA only cared about image quality and now it's a compromise.

games appear much better these days anyway even at 1080 without AA compared to back in the day, way less jaggies by default I guess rendering methods improved or something.

Probably just that there is more detail on the screen making the jaggies less noticeable compared to when you had less scene complexity and a lot more plain primitive edges on display.

 

[shamus21]

Graphic artists make the effort these days to smooth the displayed image. like you say a lot more detail on screen.

 

[arc@css]

I remember using something called 'wide tent' for AA in the ATi control panel.

I think it was x32 and, oh my, did it hit the frames hard!

 

[_Cereal_]

Super scaling is the way to go but obviously it will require more GPU resources.

 

[EdButler]

I remember using something called 'wide tent' for AA in the ATi control panel.

I think it was x32 and, oh my, did it hit the frames hard!

As someone who gamed though the first years of 3D acceleration on 3dfx Voodoo's etc, i think its ingrained in my soul to take off AA and reduce shadow quality for the fear of turning the game into a slide-show.

Back then you could use smoke grenades to literally grenade someone's FPS!