Make Battlefield 3 Look Way better On Your High-End Machine

zooterboy · Jun 23, 2012

This works pretty well with my 480s at 8x super sampling.

GanjaSMK · Jun 23, 2012

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Originally Posted by Riceman Flash

Anybody know how to do step 2 with AMD and Catalyst Control Centre?

Use 'Adaptive AA' along with MSAA in game.

emett · Jun 23, 2012

Just had a go with that FXAA injector. Nice colours and the jags and pretty much gone. Best injector i've tested. But for some reason I like the blur of the games original fxaa.
Personal choice thou.

FlighterPilot · Jun 23, 2012

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Originally Posted by emett

Just had a go with that FXAA injector. Nice colours and the jags and pretty much gone. Best injector i've tested. But for some reason I like the blur of the games original fxaa.
Personal choice thou.

Usually FXAA injectors just brighten colors, and remove the majority of the blur that comes with FXAA (which is the entire reason FXAA exists). After testing the different TRSAA options, I think multisampling gives the best IQ - despite supersampling's higher load on the system. FXAA is post processing AA, so after the scene is rendered, blur is added to remove jagged edges. Traditional AA (in the form of multisampling) along with alpha texture AA should give the best IQ, without the blur. I suppose image quality is a subjective matter though.

turbobnl · Jun 23, 2012

where can i turn off FXAA? I've looked in bf3 in game setting and cant find a fxaa setting?

seward · Jun 23, 2012

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Originally Posted by turbobnl

where can i turn off FXAA? I've looked in bf3 in game setting and cant find a fxaa setting?

It's " ANTIALIASING POST", right under " ANTIALIASING DEFERRED". You can select Low, Medium, High, or Off. For our purposes here, we're selecting Off.

turbobnl · Jun 23, 2012

thanks for the help.

dboythagr8 · Jun 24, 2012

Will give this a go. When using Supersampling though, doesn't it have to match the MSAA setting (4x SS, 4x MSAA)?

Dark-Asylum · Jun 24, 2012

looks like that "MIT education" wasn't worth much, lol

Yukss · Jun 24, 2012

ill try this

crashdummy35 · Jun 24, 2012

Amazing how many people don't set there control panel settings.

You guys with "BIG" rigs especially should be tweaking your control panels right off.

This is an older NVIDIA Control Panel Guide, but, it's good to see what each setting does and how you can mix/match them for performance/detail.

You touched on a good subject it seems op.

seward · Jun 24, 2012

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Originally Posted by crashdummy35

Amazing how many people don't set there control panel settings.

You guys with "BIG" rigs especially should be tweaking your control panels right off.

This is an older NVIDIA Control Panel Guide, but, it's good to see what each setting does and how you can mix/match them for performance/detail.

You touched on a good subject it seems op.

You know, the thing is...it's my understanding that some newer games (like BF3, and Crysis 2) only let you use in-game settings...the games are coded with alternative aliasing methods, and don't easily recognize nvidia/ATI tweaks. As far as I know, I can't force anti-aliasing in either game just by setting it in my nvidia control panel. Crysis 2 requires a bit of hoop-jumping to force AA from outside. As far as I know, you can't set full-screen AA outside of the game in BF3 at all. I'd love to be wrong about that, though.

crashdummy35 · Jun 24, 2012

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Originally Posted by seward

You know, the thing is...it's my understanding that some newer games (like BF3, and Crysis 2) only let you use in-game settings...the games are coded with alternative aliasing methods, and don't easily recognize nvidia/ATI tweaks. As far as I know, I can't force anti-aliasing in either game just by setting it in my nvidia control panel. Crysis 2 requires a bit of hoop-jumping to force AA from outside. As far as I know, you can't set full-screen AA outside of the game in BF3 at all. I'd love to be wrong about that, though.

As for AA I only use the Multi Sampling thing but that's a good point. I'll have to look into that. The nvcp has a BF3 profile built into it that you can set so, I've just always assumed (once the profile came up, wasn't always there til recently) that it worked. Gonna have to look into it.

From what I see, only AO and FXAA ever show "Not Supported For This program" in the nvcp though.

wint0nic · Jun 24, 2012

Looks nice, will try when I get home, gotta try everything, right?

lightsout · Jun 24, 2012

Definitely interested in trying this out when I get home. Thanks and subbed.

Crazy Chuckster · Jun 25, 2012

gonna give it a shot tomorrow, subbed as well.

guitarmageddon88 · Jun 25, 2012

This made the game exponentially worse to play. I always leave it set on off. When multisample is on, it makes FPS spike wildly all the way to the 50s, and my rig doesnt drop below the 70's in bf3. Also, with the console command "render.perfoverlayvisible 1" the cpu is working much harder with a lot of inconsistency in the graph. Ill stick with mulitsampling off I think.

Pittster · Jun 25, 2012

Have played with these and while it did look a little sharper for me I still seem to keep underpinning 0xMSAA or 4xMSAA & FXAA at Medium as it takes the Blur away but still gets rid of most jaggies.

As per comparisons done on [H]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/22/battlefield_3_multiplayer_performance_iq_review/5

In the heat of 64p battle I can never notice it.

FlighterPilot · Jun 26, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by crashdummy35

Amazing how many people don't set there control panel settings.

You guys with "BIG" rigs especially should be tweaking your control panels right off.
This is an older NVIDIA Control Panel Guide, but, it's good to see what each setting does and how you can mix/match them for performance/detail.
You touched on a good subject it seems op.

It's true. I've met a lot of people who use the control panel to enable SLI, and that's the last time they see it. There's a lot of potential in there (even more so with nvidia inspector).
Quote:

Originally Posted by Pittster

Have played with these and while it did look a little sharper for me I still seem to keep underpinning 0xMSAA or 4xMSAA & FXAA at Medium as it takes the Blur away but still gets rid of most jaggies.
As per comparisons done on [H]
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/22/battlefield_3_multiplayer_performance_iq_review/5
In the heat of 64p battle I can never notice it.

I used to play 2x MSAA w/ medium FXAA, and worked well as a IQ-to-performance option, but after getting rid of FXAA for transparency AA, I don't think I could go back.

Vonnis · Jun 26, 2012

I'm amazed this is new to so many people.

I always use transparency SSAA because I can't stand FXAA's blurriness. You guys need to play around with your toys more often.

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