Nvidia and AMD Anti-Aliasing and SweetFX Guide

[Preposterous Rhino]

Here is a new screenshot from me. I tried out 0x004010C0 with 8x MSAA and 4xSGSSAA and had great results. I am not using ambient occlusion in this shot though. If anybody wants an ambient occlusion shot, let me know.

Screenshot:

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Nvidia Inspector:

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[Ryo]

An AO shot would be nice.

[Chik'Tikka]

how's the performance compared to 0x004110c1? that's the one I've been using for the last couple weeks after seeing it somewhere in this thread+^_^+

[Zalana]

Had in mind PSO users dont care at graphics, but when there is one thing i realized in my life, never assume stuff, assumption is always wrong.

Although i do believe that the difference between 1080P and 1440P is barely visible because there is generaly to less tech count for matters above 1080P. So i do consider resolutions above 1080P a unnecessary hardware eater. In fact there is just few games able to drive the 1080P resolution beyond its limits. So generally even many enthusiasts may not bother going above 1080P, so they can get better FPS at almost no cost.

Ditch your 1080p monitor and drop some real cash on a DELL 3007WFP or similar and you can see for yourself.

[Preposterous Rhino]

Had in mind PSO users dont care at graphics, but when there is one thing i realized in my life, never assume stuff, assumption is always wrong.

Although i do believe that the difference between 1080P and 1440P is barely visible because there is generaly to less tech count for matters above 1080P. So i do consider resolutions above 1080P a unnecessary hardware eater. In fact there is just few games able to drive the 1080P resolution beyond its limits. So generally even many enthusiasts may not bother going above 1080P, so they can get better FPS at almost no cost.

There is nothing wrong with caring about graphics. It is just cool to think they don't matter. Do you have any idea how much time goes into making computer graphics? Besides, PSO2 is a pretty terrible looking game from a technical standpoint. As long as you hold gameplay above graphics it is logical. Besides, this is an anti-aliasing thread, which is jagged edges on the side of objects and they shimmer in motion, which is actually quite irritating to me and others in this game, which is why this thread was started to begin with.

Anyway, I am working right now but I will upload an ambient occlusion screen later today (assuming I remember ).

[Sizustar]

There is nothing wrong with caring about graphics. It is just cool to think they don't matter. Do you have any idea how much time goes into making computer graphics? Besides, PSO2 is a pretty terrible looking game from a technical standpoint. As long as you hold gameplay above graphics it is logical. Besides, this is an anti-aliasing thread, which is jagged edges on the side of objects and they shimmer in motion, which is actually quite irritating to me and others in this game, which is why this thread was started to begin with.

Anyway, I am working right now but I will upload an ambient occlusion screen later today (assuming I remember ).

So, how would you rank all the bits known so far?

[Sizustar]

One of my guildmate is having problem trying to get Nvidia Inspector to work.

They have GTX 560 SLI, not overclocked, average temp 60~70

No Nvidia Inspector


With Inspector effect(Even with low AA and no AO)


And FPS is really low.

[Reiashi]

Does anyone know exactly how to get RadeonPro working in PSO2? It doesn't seem to be active when I use it.

[Chik'Tikka]

http://www.pso-world.com/forums/imag...s/viewpost.gif

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Well, here it goes.

First, Radeon Pro download link:
http://www.radeonpro.info/download/

And SweetFX download link:
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/..._download.html

Only Radeon Pro has to be installed, while SweetFX has to be downloaded separately, it just needs to be set up inside Radeon Pro, there's no installation for it.

Now for some settings that I recommend taking care off before enabling SweetFX or AO:

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The 1st picture below is about setting up a toggle hotkey for SMAA and FXAA, both methods are not much different than the current AA method in the game, plus these 2 blur the text. One of them, I think SMAA, comes enabled by default, so it's better to set up the toggle hotkeys so it can be disabled.

The 2nd picture is just about setting up the screenshots taking feature from Radeon Pro, setting up the folder where pictures go to and the hotkey. The in-game screenshots feature doesn't capture the Radeon Pro effects like SweetFX and AO...

And the 3rd picture is about disabling the framerate counter.

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Setting up SweetFX:

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Steps 1 to 5 are pictured below.

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1: Click the settings button.
2: Click in SweetFX settings.
3: Click the Change button and choose the folder where you saved SweetFX.
4: Click Enable SweetFX.
5: Choose a toggle hotkey to be able to enable or disable SweetFX in-game.

If you want to use the Bioshock Infinite preset that I used for the following picture, do what it says in the following spoiler box.

No SweetFX - http://imageshack.us/a/img825/601/pso2nosfx.jpg
Using the SweetFX Bioshock Infinite preset - http://imageshack.us/a/img515/6740/pso2sfx.jpg

If you don't want to use this preset, skip to step 6.

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Save the settings, go to the folder where you saved SweetFX, open the file "SweetFX_settings" and highlight the text highlighted in the picture.

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Then copy the text in the quote and paste it in the document.
In the end it should look like this:

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Save the document and continue from the steps below.

Steps 6 to 9 are pictured below:

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6: Click the add new profile button.
7: Go to the PSO2 folder and select pso2.exe. Then highlight pso2.exe in RadeonPro.
8: Go to the SweetFX tab.
9: Enable SweetFX. If you used the preset, there's nothing else that you need to do, just open the game and it should work. If you didn't use the preset, configure SweetFX however you want.

Setting up Ambient Occlusion.

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Comparison pictures, comparing no AO and with AO:

No Ambient Occlusion - http://imageshack.us/a/img841/5151/pso2noao.jpg
With Ambient Occlusion - http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1980/pso2ao.jpg

Like in the SweetFX guide, click the Settings button.
Steps 1 to 4 are pictured below:

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1: In the settings window, go to Ambient Occlusion, then click Enable Ambient Occlusion.
2: Select an hotkey toggle to be able to enable or disable AO in-game.
3: Click the New button.
4: Use the settings in the quote:

Steps 5 to 7 are pictured below:

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5: Highlight pso2.exe in the recently added window. If you haven't set up a profile for PSO2 yet, check the SweetFX guide, steps 6 and 7.
6: Select the Visual tab.
7: Select Ambient Occlusion, then it's up to you, you can choose either HBAO or Volumetric, you can choose any of the quality settings too.

And then, AO is ready.

+^_^+ here's a post from way back about Radeon Pro AA and AO+^_^+ Ezodagrom seems to be the only in here that ever did anything with it since most of the other people here have Nvidia or don't care+^_^+

[D-Inferno]

Here is a new screenshot from me. I tried out 0x004010C0 with 8x MSAA and 4xSGSSAA and had great results. I am not using ambient occlusion in this shot though. If anybody wants an ambient occlusion shot, let me know.

Screenshot:

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Nvidia Inspector:

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I tried this, and it caused everything to runa t a low framerate, despite my PC being powerful (GrForce GTX 570, i2600k, 12 GB RAM). Perhaps a certain setting just makes the game run oddly?