nVidia FXAA! Make it happen! (PLEASE!)

[Exander]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/...ing_technology

FXAA stands for Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing. It does exactly what it sounds like. It is a higher-performance approximation of the effects of traditional Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing. It is a single-pass pixel shader which runs in the post-processing stage of the target game’s rendering pipeline. It is designed to be faster, and have a smaller memory footprint, than traditional MSAA, but with some compromises in precision and quality.

FXAA also has advantages, including the reduction of specular aliasing and sub-pixel aliasing (aliasing that happens when surfaces are rendered smaller than a single pixel, which makes them flicker). In his whitepaper (PDF) at developer.nvidia.com, FXAA creator Timothy Lottes claims that the cost to process a single 1920x1200 from on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 is under one millisecond for FXAA preset 2, which stands in the middle of the technology’s performance/quality compromise.

This would be great to have a smaller Video Memory foot print sense at 1440x900 with 8XQ MSAA considering my 560 GTX Ti with everything on runs at 980MB of v-ram

[Exander]

no-one? wow.. >.> It would make quality better and lesson the drawn on v-ram as well as increased graphics performance. <.<

[Esk]

It's a slow forum, but yeah would defiantly be a good idea.

[Breath77]

CSAA in the ffxivconfig is the nvidia antialiasing you can go up to 16x and use less resources than 4xMSAA

[Huppy]

http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...&postcount=595

"some dude" made a FXAA tool/D3D wrapper "injectFXAA" and worked fine on FFXIV.

[DonMega]

Huppy, I used your link and followed the instructions from the read me in the folder now my FFXIV won't boot, maybe you can tell me what you did to get it to work.

[DonMega]

Huppy, I used your link and followed the instructions from the read me in the folder now my FFXIV won't boot, maybe you can tell me what you did to get it to work.

scratch that for some reason it made my shortcut stop working but the game directory .exe worked

[indira]

they need to jump to DX11 after they make the game finshed. then we can have 32x supersampling AA

[Exander]

FXAA uses very little resources and outshines x16Q MSAA while making it look much better.

[Darrkness]

with a combination of directx11 and fxaa i believe that a lot of players who have lower end (but not bad) cards be able to run with a tad bit more quality. as it stands i run



-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 64bit (build 7601)

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 4 Physical Core Count 4

Physical Memory 8191.180MB

Virtual Memory 2047.875MB

Page File 19189.375MB

Storage C:\ Hard Disk Drive Total Disk Space 920.653GB Free Disk Space 478.054GB

DirectX Version DirectX 11

Graphic Device NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Sound Device HP 2509-1 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)

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and i run with everything jacked up to highest graphics except for two
General Drawing Quality (GDQ) set to (8)standard
and no Ambient Occlusion (AO)
everything else is as high as it can go and i get smooth as glass performance. introducing directx11 and FXAA may let me up GDQ to 9 with AO turned on? or at least let me enable AO =) that would be nice