7970 Supersampling Anti-Aliasing performance hit?
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With all that said, its not realistic to use SSAA in a modern game such as crysis 2 or DA2. The performance hit easily halves your framerate. Its nice to have for older games, and also NV can't use SSAA within the driver (nv only has MSAA + TrSS). the only way to use SSAA on nvidia cards is tinkering within nvidia inspector, you can't enable it within the driver.
Anyway, to answer simply....its only realistic to use in a few games, I like using it in Dead Space, for example. Generally speaking, you'll see a 30-40% performance hit in most cases. I would also like to use it in Just Cause 2, but I have to wait for the next driver release to test it.
SSAA is going to have a *huge* performance hit because of how it works. It is far more intensive than any other type of AA out there, what it does is render the image internally at a higher resolution, render it with color correction and aliasing, and then outputs it at the original resolution. It is extremely intensive, for example 8x SSAA will render a 1920x1080 image internally in excess of 16k x 8k resolution. Big big performance hit.Originally Posted by Riou
The 7970 recently got a driver update that enables supersampling anti-aliasing (SSAA) in DX9/DX10/DX11 games. Is the 7970 playable (at least 60 fps average) with SSAA turned on?
With all that said, its not realistic to use SSAA in a modern game such as crysis 2 or DA2. The performance hit easily halves your framerate. Its nice to have for older games, and also NV can't use SSAA within the driver (nv only has MSAA + TrSS). the only way to use SSAA on nvidia cards is tinkering within nvidia inspector, you can't enable it within the driver.
Anyway, to answer simply....its only realistic to use in a few games, I like using it in Dead Space, for example. Generally speaking, you'll see a 30-40% performance hit in most cases. I would also like to use it in Just Cause 2, but I have to wait for the next driver release to test it.
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Most people hate it because it gives a blurrier look than other AA implementations that actually resample.
Yeah, because it's post processing the image. It actually works by adaptively pixel blending areas it thinks will cause high levels of aliasing (areas of high spatial frequency). No resampling occurs.Originally Posted by Tong
In compensation, Morphological filtering is almost perfomance-free and looks *good* on most games.
The bad thing about it, is that it AAs everthing on-screen, including fonts and even fraps' counter.
Most people hate it because it gives a blurrier look than other AA implementations that actually resample.
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I tried it on NHL 09 and the players where skating weird, like jumping (frame issues). Nothing smooth about it.
Graphically I explored the game to be much crisper without MF.
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MF can also make more ruin to games.Originally Posted by fluxlite
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Yeah, because it's post processing the image. It actually works by adaptively pixel blending areas it thinks will cause high levels of aliasing (areas of high spatial frequency). No resampling occurs.Originally Posted by Tong
In compensation, Morphological filtering is almost perfomance-free and looks *good* on most games.
The bad thing about it, is that it AAs everthing on-screen, including fonts and even fraps' counter.
Most people hate it because it gives a blurrier look than other AA implementations that actually resample.
I tried it on NHL 09 and the players where skating weird, like jumping (frame issues). Nothing smooth about it.
Graphically I explored the game to be much crisper without MF.
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