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How to use 8 x MSAA on BF3

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11/8/12 at 11:27pm
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can anyone in here can explain to me, how to use 8 x MSAA on battlefield 3? because I see in tomshardware review, that they use that for their test.
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11/9/12 at 1:20am
It's in the graphic settings if that's what you're trying to enable smile.gif
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11/9/12 at 1:23am
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It's in the graphic settings if that's what you're trying to enable smile.gif

graphics setting on NCP? and yes, I just want to try it smile.gif
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11/9/12 at 6:53am
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Haven't seen any ability to enable 8Xaa. Plus I bet its a frame rate killa. You'd really have to have SLI to try that... But it sure might look nice. 4XMSAA looks darn good, can't imagine why you'd want more...
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11/9/12 at 7:27am
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Haven't seen any ability to enable 8Xaa. Plus I bet its a frame rate killa. You'd really have to have SLI to try that... But it sure might look nice. 4XMSAA looks darn good, can't imagine why you'd want more...

hmm, I am confused about this, yeah I want to try that, because when using 4xMSAA I can get 70 - 90 FPS @1080p with GTX 670, so I think I can still play the game with 8xMSAA, if that settings will kill my framerate to below 45 FPS (45 FPS which I call it playable myself), I will turn back the settings to 4xMSAA instead.
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post #6 of 30
11/9/12 at 10:25am
Try overriding from the NVIDIA control panel, not all games support this, but I believe BF3 does.

With that being said, it will probably be pretty brutal on performance if it works.
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11/9/12 at 1:28pm
I normally run Fraps on with my BF3 gameplay, and I have x8 MSAA in the NVCP (in-game Post AA disabled). It looks amazing but you're not going to notice it much while actually playing, even less in Close Quarters (Armored Kill = visually awesome, but I rarely play it). If you're interested in the framerate impact/performance, this video of mine has render.drawfps enabled, so the in-game framerate counter is viewable top right:. Note that Close Quarter maps are not as demanding as say, Caspian Borders or Gulf of Oman.

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11/9/12 at 10:28pm
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thanks for all, but when I enable 8xMSAA on NCP, should I turn off 4xMSAA on BF3 game settings / control panel?
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11/9/12 at 11:38pm
Its certainly not a framerate killer, ive got mine on 16x CSAA and get 45+ fps on ultra settings, don't use global settings, click the program settings tab, choose bf3 and change AA to "enhance the application ".
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11/9/12 at 11:48pm
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Its certainly not a framerate killer, ive got mine on 16x CSAA and get 45+ fps on ultra settings, don't use global settings, click the program settings tab, choose bf3 and change AA to "enhance the application ".

when I enable "enhanced the application", should I turn off the MSAA and AA Post on BF3 Video settings?
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