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New NViDiA WHQL drivers 301.42 released on 22.05.2012

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Have someone tried it ? or is this latest driver have some effect on ArmA II performance ?

[CHB68]

Just updated to 301.42 and everything works fine, but there is one thing I would like to know.

Does it make more sense to enable FXAA in the NVIDIA driver or in arma2oa.cfg? I assume it makes more sense in the config as the tuning is more optional, but I'm not sure.

What do you suggest ?

[MavericK96]

Just updated to 301.42 and everything works fine, but there is one thing I would like to know.

Does it make more sense to enable FXAA in the NVIDIA driver or in arma2oa.cfg? I assume it makes more sense in the config as the tuning is more optional, but I'm not sure.

What do you suggest ?

I'd recommend SMAA over FXAA anyway...

[CHB68]

I'd recommend SMAA over FXAA anyway...

I prefer a mixure of both. 2 x SMAA + 15 FXAA looks awsome. But unfortunately this does not answer my question.....

[Atkins]

What am I missing, I just can't see any improvement from neither FXAA nor SMAA, no matter what i choose from arma2oa.cfg. But when I enable FSAA in-game I can see a clear benefit (and gpu hit as well).

What is the difference with FSAA levels "Low to Very High" and "5 to 8"? Is it just a continuum of FSAA or what?

[MavericK96]

I prefer a mixure of both. 2 x SMAA + 15 FXAA looks awsome. But unfortunately this does not answer my question.....

I see. Well, the easy way would be to try both driver FXAA and in-game FXAA and see if there is any difference.

My guess is the in-game would be better in terms of not distorting the text as much (if at all) since it is integrated.

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What am I missing, I just can't see any improvement from neither FXAA nor SMAA, no matter what i choose from arma2oa.cfg. But when I enable FSAA in-game I can see a clear benefit (and gpu hit as well).

What is the difference with FSAA levels "Low to Very High" and "5 to 8"? Is it just a continuum of FSAA or what?

Are you setting FXAA and SMAA in the cfg? You have to enable it manually.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/a...tion_Arrowhead

[CHB68]

I see. Well, the easy way would be to try both driver FXAA and in-game FXAA and see if there is any difference.

Sure, already gave it a try but there is no remarkable difference. But I think you are right with your conclusion as the in-game option is more optional.....and never change a running system

[Atkins]

I see. Well, the easy way would be to try both driver FXAA and in-game FXAA and see if there is any difference.

My guess is the in-game would be better in terms of not distorting the text as much (if at all) since it is integrated.

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Are you setting FXAA and SMAA in the cfg? You have to enable it manually.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/a...tion_Arrowhead

Yes ofc. I've tried almost all PPAA settings according to the arma wiki page. I just don't see the benefit from either SMAA nor FXAA. FSAA is way superior.

[MavericK96]

Yes ofc. I've tried almost all PPAA settings according to the arma wiki page. I just don't see the benefit from either SMAA nor FXAA. FSAA is way superior.

Well, yeah, FSAA is probably always going to be superior in terms of image quality, but the performance hit is much more substantial with it over shader-based methods.

Personally, I use a mix of FSAA and SMAA to get a nice, smooth result.

As for your previous question about FSAA levels, I believe "Normal" is something like 2x MSAA, "Very High" is 4x MSAA, and then the numbers go up from there.

[Atkins]

Well, yeah, FSAA is probably always going to be superior in terms of image quality, but the performance hit is much more substantial with it over shader-based methods.

Personally, I use a mix of FSAA and SMAA to get a nice, smooth result.

As for your previous question about FSAA levels, I believe "Normal" is something like 2x MSAA, "Very High" is 4x MSAA, and then the numbers go up from there.

Yepp, FSAA looks a lot better. It reduces the flickering of distance objects and things like cranes and electrical wires look like they actually have AA but with SMAA or FXAA it looks the same as without them

I wonder what kind of GPU(s) it takes to use FSAA > 4 in Chernarus cos I really can't set it higher than 1/2 (low/normal) without getting stutter when near the orange colored trees. And I am running 560 Ti SLI with 19x12 resolution. Could the 1Gb DDR5 be the culprit?