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What method of AA do you use?

Boomstick777 said:
Switched to these settings below now. Have this running for every D3D game, looks great, even with games at medium settings. The AA makes things appear more solid, I hate jaggies even at 1440P.

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Isn't 4xEQ even better with no bigger performance hit?

Also, does anyone understand how the 2x/4x etc changed depending on your resolution?

For instance, on my 1080p resolution monitor I would set it at 4xEQ, assuming that would be downscaling from 4k.

Now I have a 1440p monitor, is 2xEQ enough?
 
almighty15 said:
So why not game on a console instead of PC then?
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There's plenty of PC only games and even with multi platformers the PC version is generally cheaper and better looking out of the box.

You don't have to be OCD over tweaking the graphics and counting frames to be a PC gamer.
 
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VincentHanna said:
Isn't 4xEQ even better with no bigger performance hit?

Also, does anyone understand how the 2x/4x etc changed depending on your resolution?

For instance, on my 1080p resolution monitor I would set it at 4xEQ, assuming that would be downscaling from 4k.

Now I have a 1440p monitor, is 2xEQ enough?
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4xEQ is no better then pure 4xAA.

It just has a different sample pattern compared to 4xAA that in the real world you will not notice.

From an image quality and performance point of view running 4xAA with 'Adaptive AA' set in the AMD CCC is the best option.

If you're downscaling you could get away with just MLAA as the more pixels it has to sample from the better the effects.
 
There is definitely a benefit to disabling in game AA and using the GPU's own method though CCC or Nvidia Control Panel.

On both Radeon and now Nvidia cards, both got nice jump in performance by switching of in game AA in BF4 and using the cards own instead.

I get no drops at all in BF4 using Nvidia's own 4 x AA over BF4's AA even 2X in BF4 gives me weird drops in FPS after a death etc. With Nvidia's own 4X there are no drops, was the same story with the Radeon card albeit at lower settings as it was a mid tier card. In game BF4's AA would cause weird drops, however same settings but using CCC either 4X or much higher edge setting would give no drops.
 
Boomstick777 said:
There is definitely a benefit to disabling in game AA and using the GPU's own method though CCC or Nvidia Control Panel.

On both Radeon and now Nvidia cards, both got nice jump in performance by switching of in game AA in BF4 and using the cards own instead.

I get no drops at all in BF4 using Nvidia's own 4 x AA over BF4's AA even 2X in BF4 gives me weird drops in FPS after a death etc. With Nvidia's own 4X there are no drops, was the same story with the Radeon card albeit at lower settings as it was a mid tier card. In game BF4's AA would cause weird drops, however same settings but using CCC either 4X or much higher edge setting would give no drops.
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Interesting.... Will have to try that..
 
funt said:
Same as OP 24x edge detect.
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Edge Detect on Radeon cards is awesome, really good quality and don't notice performance hit. Running BF4 with Medium Preset (R9 270) and then (Override) (Adaptive Multisample) (24X Edge Detect) would transform the look of the game.

Find on Nvidia (Override) (4XAA) and (Multisample) give best balance of Visuals vs Performance hit.

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Broom are you using Mantle or DX11 to apply those settings? Because CCC image quality settings do not work in any Mantle game. It's all in the hands of the developer.
 
I don't bother changing the AA settings unless the in game ones are insufficient. In FPS games I'll generally have MSAA lowered or off to keep the frame rate up anyway whereas in other games I play on my 1440 monitor so the need for AA is reduced slightly. So I'll settle for SSAA 2x or MSAA 2x depending on what's available.

To be honest the image quality on my BenQ is so bad compared to my Dell that a few jaggies is the least of my problems anyway (if I go with AA off) :p.
 
LtMatt said:
Broom are you using Mantle or DX11 to apply those settings? Because CCC image quality settings do not work in any Mantle game. It's all in the hands of the developer.
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Direct X obviously :D

Rusty0611 said:
I don't bother changing the AA settings unless the in game ones are insufficient. In FPS games I'll generally have MSAA lowered or off to keep the frame rate up anyway whereas in other games I play on my 1440 monitor so the need for AA is reduced slightly. So I'll settle for SSAA 2x or MSAA 2x depending on what's available.

To be honest the image quality on my BenQ is so bad compared to my Dell that a few jaggies is the least of my problems anyway (if I go with AA off) :p.
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Yeah I'm at 1440P and would settle for 2X in game AA..

Never settle though Rusty, disable that in-game stuff and set override 4XAA, multisample with Nvidia or 24XEdge, adaptive multisample with Radeon, much better image quality and negligible performance hit.
 
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Rexton said:
I usually use FXAA if possible- should I be using something else?
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FXAA is a good balance of visuals VS performance, it's down to personal preference, I'm getting better performance by using GPU's own settings and disabling in game options, on both Radeon and Nvidia cards.

No drops at all in BF4 anymore, Single 780Ti @ 1440P Ultra setting with AA disabled in game, Post AA set to high and X4 AA, adaptive in Nvidia Control Panel. With BF4's AA enabled even at 2X in game I get weird drops when killed or certain explosions etc.
 
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