AntiAliasing please... Forced Settings Took forever to work through problems.

[LessLoveLess8]

I don't get it but what's wrong with FFXIV antialiasing? It looks ok to me.

if i wasnt still locked out from trying to log in 5-6 times before realizing Capps Lock was on i would show you lol

anyways. The game does look amazing by itself, i agree. It just isnt up to par with what it should be IMHO. They use a very lazy (and somewhat outdated) form of AA right now. And i cant really explain further without being able to show you haha...

The difference in what i have set up currently is dramatic. And i plan to get screenshots up if SE EVER LETS ME LOG DA FRICK IN.

so the only way to know right now is to try out the instructions up top, if you have a system that can handle all that awesome combined into one game.

[ZohnoReecho]

Ok. I'll wait for your screenshots. Those available on the 2 presets pages just look like oversaturated images xD

[LessLoveLess8]

Ok. I'll wait for your screenshots. Those available on the 2 presets pages just look like oversaturated images xD

lol right? it sucks all the good presets vanished. I am modding the one i am using now and will upload it for access after its perfect :P

[Baratan]

Anti-aliasing is difficult to explain. It's easier to show IRL to someone. Like most things its more significant in-motion than in static .jpg images.

For an example of the difference anti-aliasing can make on image quality, try lowering your in-game resolution to one half of what you normally play as. Then go back to the resolution you normally use. That's, in a nutshell, the difference between anti-aliasing and no anti-aliasing. Of course, like most things in life, anti-aliasing is subject to diminishing returns and while it may not be as significant a difference in overall appearance as halving your resolution it works on the same principle. Anti-aliasing works ((SSAA, the good kind) by rending the game's image in 2x, 4x, 8x, whatever your card can handle and then displaying it in your monitor's display size. It's generally also much more performance friendly than forcing your graphics card to actually run at that multiplied resolution and consider the fact that they don't make monitors which can support them anyway. SSAA gives you an image quality that is not otherwise possible to achieve.

[Ranebow]

Instructions for Major Graphics Enhancement:
1. download SweetFX ARR Package here: http://ninjafada.com/ffxiv/ARR/p3/p3v9.rar
2. Extract to C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game
3. download sweet fx preset listed below (you can only use one of the presets listed below..in case your new to sweetfx)
Super Vibrant: http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/698/
Color Boost: http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/690/
4. Open the preset text file
5. Change SMAA to 0, and FXAA to 0, and Lumasharpen to 0
EDIT: Also change Bloom to 1 and HDR to 1 if it has not already been done
6. Save Preset Text File
7. Copy the newly saved Preset, Paste it here C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game
8. Overwrite the previous one.
9. FOR AMD CARDS ONLY Open Catalyst Control Center
10. Click gaming
11. Click 3D Application Settings
12. Adjust to my listed settings at the bottom of this post
13. Click apply.
14. Launch Final Fantasy...
15. configure your graphics settings to turn off HDR, Turn off FXAA.
16. Exit Final Fantasy
17. Re-launch Final Fantasy
18. Reap your profits.

(ALL POSSIBLE WITH NVIDIA AS WELL, WILL UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW TO ENABLE SUPER SAMPLING WITH A NVIDIA CARD WITHOUT CAUSING ARTIFICATS)

(CURRENTLY WORKING ON ENB PRESET TO INTRODUCE BETTER DOF AS WELL)

(WILL GET SCREENSHOTS SOON OF IN GAME GRAPHICS)


Hey SE, could you put some legit AA in your game by the DX11 release? It just took me a ridiculous amount of work to force it through without causing graphical issues.

First i used Sweetfx, but Sweetfx AA sucks about as bad as the games..., even with top quality SMAA and FXAA the game looked terrible.

I finally got an ENB i used to use for Skyrim working right, and WOW did it work. Really, it took so much to get it working, and it paid off. But when i got in game, i noticed that it still wasnt GREAT is was just OK.

So then i started trying to force through SuperSampling AA through my Gfx Card, and that worked AWESOME like seriously, AWESOME. But it messed up the GFX so bad and removed all magic animations from the game. Still, never seen a prettier game before, so i deicided to take this route from here on out.

And it took me 1-2 hours to get SuperSampling AA to work without artifacts (there was a simple resolution, but still)

So if you could, please include some good AA next time round


Current Settings forced through GFX Card:

AntiAliasing:
AA mode - Enhance Application Settings
AA samples - Enhance Application Settings
Filter - Standard
Anti-Aliasing Method - Supersampling
Morphological Filtering - (ON fullscreen only)

Texture Filtering - Override application settings
Ansioscopic samples - 16x
Texture filter - High Quality
Surface Format Optimization - On

Frame Rate Control -
Wait for Vertical Sync - Always ON
OpenGL Tripple Buffering - ON

Tessalation
Tess - Override Application Settings
Maximum Tessalation - 64X

The game now looks amazing.


In Game Settings Change:

Turn off in game FXAA (like you would with SweetFX)

1. The current in-game AA works fine. It does general edge detect and a bit of transparency AA for the flora/tree leaves. You needn't force anything at the driver level like back in Phase III.
2. FSAA and SSAA does not exist/work on the client - one of the complaints about the engine compared to 1.0. In your Sweet settings, you've disabled SMAA and FXAA - you've also done this in your control panel at the driver level. Where do you think your AA is coming from? It's coming from the Morphological filtering, which is giving you a full screen image blur.

As for Sweet FX in this case, it's only beneficial for post process sharpening. If you're after color grading or tone mapping, it can eat performance even for slight adjustments. You'd be better off making a color profile in your graphic's card panel and switch to that before running the game(s).

Lastly, you'll need to give screenshots regarding ENB. ENB series won't launch with because of the foreign .dll injection so people may be skeptical.

[Mavlok]

Why do you have OpenGL Tripple Buffering ON?

[Ranebow]

Why do you have OpenGL Tripple Buffering ON?

I don't remember if AMD has it on by default but I'd suspect these days it is? Not many Open GL titles - it's a moot point in this case.

[stuntdubs]

Yeh seriously this is lieterally the crispest game I have ever played, I am constantly blown away by the GFX.
I'm just using the ingame FXAA but im playing at 1440p so I suppose if your at 1080p it might not be so nice.

[samfisher]

FXAA has nothing to do with crispness. In fact it's the opposite. FXAA blurs the edges to make it appear smooth.

[JamieLee]

AntiAliasing:
AA mode - Enhance Application Settings Does not work as the game ignores it
AA samples - Enhance Application Settings Does not work do to the fact the above does not work
Filter - Standard
Anti-Aliasing Method - Supersampling Does not work as the only thing that works is there software verison of fxaa edge sampling.
Morphological Filtering - (ON fullscreen only) Does work but your better off just using fxaa in game.