Best way to Antialias?

[JebKerman]

It's pretty much as the title says, What is the best way to make a game appear crisper (other than a new monitor, which I probably should get onto (1600x900 atm))

 

Or if there isn't a best single or combination of techniques, what are the perks of each one?

[EarthboundHero]

DSR or MFAA. Both work on the 970 and can be enabled in the nVidia driver.

[Samfisher]

DSR or SSAA.

[kenjigreat]

4K Monitor and run the game at 4K.
 

Makes the game look way better.

[Humbug]

Damn, I read the topic as "best way to Atlantis"

[typographie]

It's pretty much as the title says, What is the best way to make a game appear crisper (other than a new monitor, which I probably should get onto (1600x900 atm))

 

Or if there isn't a best single or combination of techniques, what are the perks of each one?

 

The most powerful antialiasing effects are supersampling or Nvidia DSR, which renders the game at a higher resolution and downsamples to your resolution. Aside from those, the best trade-off between performance and effectiveness depends on what's available in the game. Where possible, I prefer SMAA or TXAA. I generally turn off FXAA anywhere I can.

 

Aside from maybe the first two brute-force solutions I suggested, antialiasing won't really make the game look "crisper," in fact some will blur parts of the image. That terminology makes it sound like the problem is a relatively low monitor pixel density (PPI).

[Thony]

4K Monitor and run the game at 4K.

Makes the game look way better.

Still on 1080p over here.

Would love 1440p IPS, 144Hz, G-sync but I will have to wait till I win a lottery for that to happen :'( they are so soooooo expensive.

[Mark_Keller]

Still on 1080p over here.

Would love 1440p IPS, 144Hz, G-sync but I will have to wait till I win a lottery for that to happen :'( they are so soooooo expensive.

I'm so cheap when it comes to monitors, I hope I'm not alone!

[kenjigreat]

The Best of the Best is to use a 4K Monitor and Run at 4K . There is still a bit of aliasing but not much. It makes the game look WAY BETTER.

As someone who has used DSR on my 1080P Monitor and Ran Native 4K . DSR is meh , there are some very bad scaling issues on certain games.

 

SSAA or MSAA is GPU Intensive but overall results are pretty awesome. 

FXAA to me is eh . Doesn't do much compared to other AA Techniques but not much performance drop . 

I can't talk about TXAA since I haven't had the need to use it.

[kenjigreat]

Still on 1080p over here.

Would love 1440p IPS, 144Hz, G-sync but I will have to wait till I win a lottery for that to happen :'( they are so soooooo expensive.

1080P is fine depending on Screensize . I use a 22-Inch 1080P Monitor I use for my PS4 and it looks pretty damn good. 

My 28-inch Monitor for my PC is 4K . If I was to get a 1080P Monitor for my PC it would be 23-22 Inches. 

I game super close to my monitors so a low PPI Makes me want to puke.

[DEDRICK]

Even at 1440p I don't use MSAA and promptly disable Post-AAs

[Thony]

I'm so cheap when it comes to monitors, I hope I'm not alone!

Same, each of my monitors cost me £120.