Kinda BS performance of a modern system in DX9 — anybody else experience this?

wagex

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• Aug 25, 2016

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Kenrou said:

Ok i'm very curious now, if you get zero or near zero jaggies like i showed you with only 8x MSAA (possibly less haven't tried, and it will play well on yours) why are you trying out other settings like SGSSAA ? As you seen for yourself the performance hit is massive for near enough the same quality ?

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hes not playing at 1080

 

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Even @1440 MSAA 8x/4x would be more then enough unless the game is particularly bad like ME3 was, i needed MSAA4x+SGSSAA 4x to completely get rid of jaggies ?

 

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• Aug 25, 2016

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Different game... never played it... what the hell is SGSSAA? Do AMD cards have that option?

 

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http://naturalviolence.webs.com/sgssaa.htm - http://www.overclock.net/t/1250100/nvidia-sparse-grid-supersampling

AMD has it but i think with another name. It's pretty much the only AA method besides FXAA that works on certain DX9 games like ME3. As far as i remember works like MSAA+DSR.

 

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• Aug 26, 2016

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AF is a nice visual upgrade without a big hit, if at all... (Can I even confirm so much as a couple-of-FPS drop?) Better details on farther objects...

Regarding slowness, nothing like 2xSAI... 2xSAI OTOH often causes slowdowns...

 

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• Aug 27, 2016

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This the same SAI one uses in emulators like SNES/GBA ?

 

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I've never heard of SAI....

 

Kenrou

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https://vdnoort.home.xs4all.nl/emulation/2xsai/

I've only seen it in emulators for nintendo or gameboy, had no idea you could use it in desktop games.

 

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Can anyone help me figure out what the relevance of that is here?

 

Kenrou

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It's a not very used/known form of anti-aliasing. No idea in performance hit, but works very well in emulators. Assume OP is trying out different methods ?

 

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• Aug 27, 2016

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I would stick with 1440p VSR and less AA if it weren't for illegible text. I need to read those journal entries and item descriptions all the time. I'm sticking with SSAA simply because the framerate is still playable and I think I can see just a little difference, so why not. I'm not sure, but I think texture surfaces and lights and water effects etc. (translucent/semi-transparent layers?) look just a little better.

Given eye-screen distance (80 cm or more), I probably don't need 8 AA, though. Might even be a bit detrimental. I think I used 2 on my previous GFX card (HD4850). So I'm open to experimenting.

 

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Kenrou said:

This the same SAI one uses in emulators like SNES/GBA ?

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Yes.