Please have mercy and give us post-process AA

[twistking]

Super sampling to 200% or bruteforcing MSAA on a deferred shading renderer is very, very inefficient.

Adding some post process AA like SMAA or TXAA would help tremendously with getting clean visuals without sacrificing performance.

 

It's also very easy to implement, so still not having it in DCS seem unjustifiable considering how much money people spent on hardware trying to get clean visuals.

 

With TXAA and maybe 125% SS you can easily surpass image quality of 4*MSAA with a fraction of the perforamnce loss.

To be honest i can not understand, how somebody thought it was ok to ship the deferred shading version of dcs without pp aa...

[OttoPus]

+1

 

To be fair, ED has stated that antialiasing is under works but I cannot find the post.

 

I suspect that these kind of tasks are aggregated with the Vulkan implementation, since are related to the graphics engine.

[Mars Exulte]

Why don't you just use ReShade? It's an external shader mod, you can que up any kind/number of effects you want and then fiddle with some sliders/values to adjust how much and the manner they are applied. It's extremely easy to use.

 

You can even render the game in black and white ASCII characters if you want

[OttoPus]

Why don't you just use ReShade? It's an external shader mod, you can que up any kind/number of effects you want and then fiddle with some sliders/values to adjust how much and the manner they are applied. It's extremely easy to use.

 

You can even render the game in black and white ASCII characters if you want

 

This is a wish item for the wishlist for DCS, it's not a request for workarounds.

[Mars Exulte]

Yeah, but in the meantime... ReShade

[twistking]

Reshade only offers fxaa though and this is by far the least interesting out of all pp aa solutions.

With a proper integration you could also run the pp aa before the scale down from a super sampled image, which could give even better results.

[Harlikwin]

Reshade doesn't work in VR as I recall. Or maybe I'm wrong on that.

[Mars Exulte]

Oh, I don't know about VR, never tried to use it with that.

 

And it offers FXAA and SMAA and both are highly adjustable. At least the version I have does, but you can plug in new shaders easy enough anyway. That's kind of the point of ReShade in the first place, afterall.

[ebabil]

yeah +1000 i want better AA

i don't wanna play time game because it is so jaggy and shimmering even though 4xmsaa and mfaa or whatever it is lol

[Nealius]

Unfortunately this discussion has been going on since the Nevada Open Alpha days, with no real visible progress.

[OttoPus]

Creating graphic engines is not an easy task, especially for a small indipendent software house like ED. It takes a lot of time and resources.

 

Let's just not derail off topic and maintain this wishlist topic as pure as we can, so that it doesn't turn into trash talk (or unwanted 3rd party solutions).

[M1Combat]

You can set all the options you want in the NVidia control panel and I would assume the AMD one...

 

None of it works in VR but most AA doesn't anyway.

 

So yeah... Use the NV/AMD CPL... It's pretty awesome.

[ebabil]

bump

this game's AA was way too better before. please add some better performance AA settings

[ac5]

:thumbup:

Super sampling to 200% or bruteforcing MSAA on a deferred shading renderer is very, very inefficient.

Adding some post process AA like SMAA or TXAA would help tremendously with getting clean visuals without sacrificing performance.

 

It's also very easy to implement, so still not having it in DCS seem unjustifiable considering how much money people spent on hardware trying to get clean visuals.

 

With TXAA and maybe 125% SS you can easily surpass image quality of 4*MSAA with a fraction of the perforamnce loss.

To be honest i can not understand, how somebody thought it was ok to ship the deferred shading version of dcs without pp aa...

 

:thumbup: +1

[Worrazen]

because Vulkan API engine is on the way, effort for things like AA is probably going into that, that's better and worth the wait.

[SharpeXB]

because Vulkan API engine is on the way, effort for things like AA is probably going into that, that's better and worth the wait.

Worth the wait... maybe 5 or 6 years... how long did EDGE take? :music_whistling:

I’m not knocking ED I’m just saying enjoy DCS for what it is now and don’t put so much stake into the far away future.