[Tip]Anti-aliasing and Filtering with Little-No Performance Hit

[NaturalViolence]

So basically you're just telling people to force AA through their drivers instead of using dolphins settings. This is really basic knowledge that most PC gamers probably already know. People have been doing this for years but it's not too common because it produces minimal performance gains in every instance that I've seen and can cause issues with some games. On top of that often times it flat out doesn't work depending on the type of AA that you're trying to force and your settings within dolphin. Your comparison at the end of your post does not include screenshots to verify that the AA is working correctly and producing equivalent quality, does not list the type of AA backend or other settings used in dolphin, and lists edge only sample numbers for CCC which is a bit misleading. My best guess is that you're using MSAA in dolphin and edge detect SSAA in CCC. I find it hard to believe you're getting an 85% drop in performance with 4xSSAA in dolphin. In fact that's mathematically impossible unless you're running out of video ram which wouldn't happen on that card unless you're running at an absurdly high IR. Which IR are these comparisons being done at? A 20% drop in framerate from 8xSSAA with edge detect in CCC is really hard to swallow unless either your IR is really low or the SSAA isn't working propery.

You definitely should not be forcing AF through the drivers when dolphins implementation has zero performance hit on a modern graphics card. There is no point in running the risk of generating artifacts.

Oh and many driver AA do work with openGL just so you know. Different types of AA work with different backends. On top of that nvidia and AMD have different implementations which causes differences in which combinations work and which ones don't between them. And some AA methods that don't work normally can be forced to work with correct compatibility bits set through a driver override program. These have all been discussed extensively in other threads if you use the forums search function. They wouldn't be discussed in the wiki because that's not what the wiki is for. Anything regarding external programs or image quality enhancements isn't going to be found on the wiki.

Your post seems to imply that every driver AA method works with both d3d9 and d3d11 when the vast majority do not. For example you cannot get driver MSAA working with either nvidia or AMD cards using dolphins d3d9 backend.

limith Wrote:2) Open up your graphics card settings program (NVidia control panel and AMD CCC). If you don't see the option, update your drivers.

In order for you to not have a driver control panel at all your drivers would have to be more than 12 years out of date with either company. And if that were the case you wouldn't be able to run dolphin anyways.

@CryZENx

How could you not know that AA can be forced through drivers when you've done forced downsampling through drivers before? Which is far more complicated.