I can't run Crysis!

[ApexTypeA]

Ok, I can run Crysis. But not with all the dials turned up to max. I can pretty much turn everything up to max at 3440 X 1440 and get about 90 fps, except anti-aliasing. Setting AA to max drops me to about 40 FPS (did I mention this is 2 overclocked 980 Ti's in SLI? ). 

So I tried AA on to Max and completely OFF through many different parts of the game, with my face righ up against walls and looking at long distances (as long as this game allows) and I cannot for the life of me tell the difference between AA ON and AA OFF. Most other games I own give me similar results.  

So here is the question: Should I bother using any AA at all? It seems to just slow things down to me. In other games I keep it on at a lower level but it bothers me (I am sure I will find sympathy from someone out there) that I can't just "balls to the walz" any game in existence today with my set up. Nevermind a game from 3 years ago... With enough compute capacity to match the entire planet's computational capacity in 1986, I figure I should be getting more out of this hardware. 

AND... the game crashes when the Ti's are overclocked. Even when no other game or benchmark utility does. But that's a different story altogether... 

[DXMember]

AA useless at 1440p and above

AA smoothens the round and diagonal objects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisample_anti-aliasing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_anti-aliasing

 

Use 2x MSAA or don't use it at all

[ivhyn]

I usually turn AA off in most games since I'm an ignorant person and I don't even notice the edges when playing.

Great AA looks good but tanks the perfomance (MSAA, SSAA, TXAA), bad AA looks horrible and isn't even worth the performance decrease (MLAA, FXAA) 

[matrix07012]

Since you are using Ultra HD, you don't really need AA. I use it, because I have 1080p 23 inch monitor and it just looks awfull.

[sgtcool]

Which Crysis?

 

i ran Crysis 2 maxed 1080p on 50-70 fps

i had about 45fps in the intro sequence

[ApexTypeA]

10 hours ago, sgtcool said:

Which Crysis?

 

i ran Crysis 2 maxed 1080p on 50-70 fps

i had about 45fps in the intro sequence

Sorry, this is Crysis 3 we are talking about.

[Helly]

If you dont notice it then why bother with it? You only want it on because "balls to the walls"? Who the hell cares..... Go for fps and leave it off in every game, AA is overrated anyway. I've never bothered with AA not even in the 1024x768 days. Yeah years later when i had 10x the power to run it and got 100fps+ even with AA on. Didnt even care about the edges then.....

[MilkJugg24]

I personally don't see a purpose to using AA on anything but sub-1080p. It just makes things blurry rather than more sharp for me most of the time. Very high performance loss for very little visual gain.