I see most people are using SweetFX in the screens thread to run their games. I don't see anything different about the games, though.
What is SweetFX and what does it do?
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05-06-2013, 08:50 AM
Have your eyes examined. The effects are usually pretty noticeable. It's basically an injector + configurable shader pack. It allows you to add all sorts of post-processing effects to d3d applications. I personally don't like to use it because I feel that this sort of filtering rarely makes anything look better.
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(05-06-2013, 08:50 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Have your eyes examined. The effects are usually pretty noticeable. It's basically an injector + configurable shader pack. It allows you to add all sorts of post-processing effects to d3d applications. I personally don't like to use it because I feel that this sort of filtering rarely makes anything look better.Can you go a bit more into detail regarding what types of post-processing effects it supports? I'd be interested in seeing what it can add to F-Zero GX. Is there a dedicated thread somewhere? 05-07-2013, 11:09 AM
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Just google sweetfx. Or better yet I'll save you some time. Here are the first two results that popped up when I googled it:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=376265 http://sweetfx.thelazy.net/ Here are a list of included shaders according to the first link: Quote:SMAA Anti-aliasing : Anti-aliases the image using the SMAA technique - see http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/ isamu Wrote:Is there a dedicated thread somewhere? Not really.
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(05-07-2013, 11:09 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Just google sweetfx. Or better yet I'll save you some time. Here are the first two results that popped up when I googled it:Thank you so much for the detailed reply man! Great post and very informative! I'm on the Guru forums now learning more about this app. Lots of reading to do lol. Just installed it and will give it a go on Dolphin after I'm done reading some more.
http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/
That link goes nowhere. SSAA is Super Sample Anti-Aliasing, and MSAA is Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing. What the hell is SMAA? EDIT: Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing. Way to go google cache. Though I don't know why the full version of the cache is still rerouted. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...us&strip=1 AMD Threadripper Pro 5975WX PBO+200 | Asrock WRX80 Creator | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE | 64GB DDR4-3600 Octo-Channel | Windows 11 23H1 | (details)
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05-09-2013, 06:25 AM
Well it's not my link, I just quoted the article.
Basically it's a modified version of the FXAA shader first developed by timothy lottes (which is opensource thankfully) made by a different author. It supposedly improves upon the original designs image quality. Although the performance hit of the two has never been directly compared to my knowledge. They're both fairly simple post-processing shaders so they should both have a very low performance hit. It is noticeably sharper than FXAA and most enthusiasts prefer it over FXAA. Rant:
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Gods dammit I hate iryoku.com. Of course I find an article on SRAA there and of course it's broken. Oh well, to google cache! http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...clnk&gl=us
Subpixel Reconstruction Anti-aliasing eh? Considering the context, I'm assuming it's another way of cheating, like FXAA. But how would that be better? Could it actually compare to MSAA or SSAA in quality? AMD Threadripper Pro 5975WX PBO+200 | Asrock WRX80 Creator | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE | 64GB DDR4-3600 Octo-Channel | Windows 11 23H1 | (details)
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05-09-2013, 08:32 AM
Well it looks like both the nvidia research paper and timothy lottes blog post on SRAA are down for some reason. So unfortunately I can't show you the good white paper. But here's an inferior version made for ID311 (this will take a really long time to download on your 56k connection): http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/S...a-talk.pdf
And a much shorter research paper: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/S...11SRAA.pdf Some comparison images that I could find: http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scal...e_sraa.jpg http://www.battlefield3.nl/images/sraa3.jpg The nvidia whitepaper had some really good comparison images. Unfortunately every trace of it seems to have been obliterated from the web. And a quick summary from the abstract section: Quote:Subpixel Reconstruction Antialiasing (SRAA) combines singlepixel (1x) shading with subpixel visibility to create antialiased images without increasing the shading cost. SRAA targets deferred shading renderers, which cannot use multisample antialiasing. It's not as good as SSAA in image quality. Nothing is. But it easily beats MSAA in image quality while maintaining a similar performance hit.
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SSAA FTW. Shame a GTX Titan isn't under £100.
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