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Step One: Turn off FXAA...
You'll find this setting in-game. It's a technology created for budget oriented systems, and it makes the game look like a blurry mess. It's time to get your moneys worth with some good ol' fashion transparency AA.

Step Two: Enable Transparency Anti Aliasing

Here's the hard part... It's time to put that MIT education to work. Go into your control panel, and navigate the the page shown here. As you can see, I've opted for multisampling. You dual 680 people can give supersampling a shot (I've been informed supersampling TRSAA does not work in BF3, you will have to stick to multisampling). You don't want that $1k investment to get bored, right?
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That's really all it is. Easy as cake... or pie... or some other delicious desert, and well worth the little effort. thumb.gif

Give it a shot!

edit: you will want to mix this with some MSAA, all transparency AA does is remove jaggies from alpha textures (grass/trees/fences/etc)

Screens on Page 2
Edited by FlighterPilot - 8/4/12 at 2:44pm
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me do it now thumb.gif
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OK...
But some comparison screenshots would be nice,if possible...
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I don't think my GTS 450 would handle that very well frown.gif
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Testing it out now, lets see how it goes thumb.gif

edit: Decent increase, I felt like there were a few things that looked better.
Edited by Bonkers - 6/22/12 at 6:56pm
post #6 of 68
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Originally Posted by Teh Bottleneck View Post

OK...
But some comparison screenshots would be nice,if possible...


I might get around to it, but hey, in the mean time.. it's only two steps. lol
post #7 of 68
Trying it right now, brb...

edit: I'm back!

I...believe that it does improve things a bit.

There appear to be a bit more "jaggies", but some stuff does appear to be sharper...color dynamics, actually, are a bit improved, if that makes any sense. Slightly more intense, a bit more contrast.

I know that screenshots would help. I'll try to get some.

btw running 8x supersample; not much of a framerate hit. Unless I'm doing it wrong.
Edited by seward - 6/22/12 at 9:52pm
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Don't leave us AMD folks out! biggrin.gif
    
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The in-game setting you suggest we shut off is the postprocessing AA, not the MSAA...yes?
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post #10 of 68
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The in-game setting you suggest we shut off is the postprocessing AA, not the MSAA...yes?

Correct, you will be using the MSAA in combination with the transparency AA. Remove FXAA.
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