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I tried TXAA on WD and it did a pretty good job with less impact than MSAA.

I believe TXAA is nvidia only.

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FXAA is probably the least intensive AA method. Honestly at high enough resolution and if you're not breathing on your monitor, you're probably not going to see the difference, so I would stick with FXAA.

 

there's a point where you lose a lot of performance for very little gains in fidelity, I think FXAA is somewhere near the "worth it" end point.

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If you are looking for performance, FXAA all the way. I think it looks ok on 1440p+, since the moar pixels and less lost details due to blur... It also adds nice smoother cinematic look to some games.

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If you are looking for performance, FXAA all the way. I think it looks ok on 1440p+, since the moar pixels and less lost details due to blur... It also adds nice smoother cinematic look to some games.

why use AA at 1440p?

 

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why use AA at 1440p?

To get rid of the jaggies? :3

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Go with SMAA at the very least. FXAA blurs everything so no AA is better IMO

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This. Is AA really necessary even at 1080p?

In 720p and 900p you need it because everything looks jaggy, but I don't find much difference in 1080p :P

Just my opinion anyways

Are you nut's Just because in the current trend allot of people on the internets has been hating on AA everyone thinks that AA is terrible. Well I say to you upgrade your freaking hardware people and stop complaining and yes 1080P defiantly need AA unless the monitor is 7".

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This. Is AA really necessary even at 1080p?

In 720p and 900p you need it because everything looks jaggy, but I don't find much difference in 1080p :P

Just my opinion anyways

 

I'm on 1600p and I can't game without AA on, in my opinion it's absolutely necessary. Next to texture quality I'd say it's the most important part of good image quality.

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This. Is AA really necessary even at 1080p?

In 720p and 900p you need it because everything looks jaggy, but I don't find much difference in 1080p :P

Just my opinion anyways

this is why I say don't bother with more than 2x or 4x and prefer FXAA.

I already downscale from 1440p, so it's even less for me.

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Are you nut's Just because in the current trend allot of people on the internets has been hating on AA everyone thinks that AA is terrible. Well I say to you upgrade your freaking hardware people and stop complaining and yes 1080P defiantly need AA unless the monitor is 7".

"Just my opinion anyways" Calm down man, I just was sharing my opinion. I'm fine with my R9 280, it can handle AA perfectly, but one day I disabled it and I didn't saw much difference.

If you like it, go with it and be happy, is just my opinion and personal taste :)

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I'm on 1600p and I can't game without AA on, in my opinion it's absolutely necessary. Next to texture quality I'd say it's the most important part of good image quality.

Interesting... I will put more attention to it the next time I play, I'm usually more focused on the gameplay than looking for jaggies, because if I start to look for jaggies I get killed in the game :P I will try in a solo game like Watch Dogs.

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"Just my opinion anyways" Calm down man, I just was sharing my opinion. I'm fine with my R9 280, it can handle AA perfectly, but one day I disabled it and I didn't saw much difference.

If you like it, go with it and be happy, is just my opinion and personal taste :)

Real problem is that many game devs today are using shit tier forms of AA that really dont work much if at all. In the case of FXAA it does work to remove jaggies but at the cost of image quality.

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Interesting... I will put more attention to it the next time I play, I'm usually more focused on the gameplay than looking for jaggies, because if I start to look for jaggies I get killed in the game :P I will try in a solo game like Watch Dogs.

 

I get so annoyed at jaggies that I can't enjoy the game :). If I have to lower the detail settings to get better frame rate I usually try pretty much anything else before lowering or turning off AA (usually shadow quality or SSAO is the first one to go).

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This. Is AA really necessary even at 1080p?

In 720p and 900p you need it because everything looks jaggy, but I don't find much difference in 1080p :P

Just my opinion anyways

Eh i see the pixels in 1080p, 1440p is just great though

 

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