Hi all, I am tinkering with my graphic settings and don't know what to do with the FXAA setting. What do you guys (and girls?) do with this setting? Thanks in advance!
FXAA is a GPU-friendly method of anti-aliasing (removing jagged edges etc) but it affects the whole image, not just the 3D elements. Basically it just blurs everything. Take screenshots of it on an off, and compare them - you might like it.
It also depends on the resolution you're using. I used to play on a 40" TV set @1080 so FXAA and only 2xMSAA looked quite good to me. Now on a 32" @1440 I tend to keep FXAA off and go for 4x MSAA since 8x is a tad too much for my GTX960. But more modern GPUs should handle that easily. Oli
If you use nVidia try to switch off FXAA in game and switch it on in the nVidia control panel. Way less blurry than the ingame FXAA, still it manages to smoothen some of the jaggies that are not taken care of by the ingame AA. I always see jaggies at the edge of the bottom of the cars and at the shadows, even with full AA activated in game. They are a lot better with the nVidia FXAA, while not blurring too much. I find it to be a very good compromise. No idea if this applies to AMD GPUs as well.
Nvidia users can turn on Sparse Grid Super Sampling in the driver setting that will clean things up considerably. Along with a considerable hit to FPS. FXAA is meant to be a "cheap" way of anti-aliasing. I never use it- too blurry. But for lower end GPU's it's better than nothing. I moved up to a 1440p monitor and that was an improvement vs simply adding more anti-aliasing to 1080p. Resolution and viewing distance are factors in what is "needed," as other have mentioned. Shadows are treated a bit differently, which is why they always have their own graphics settings in the menus for games. They are a resource hog. R3E does a good job with their draw distance at least, and I'm hopeful they will continue to do so whenever the new game engine is released (if ever). ACC (and AC) draw distance are garbage, for comparison.
hello, I have some graphics problems, in the onboard view everything is going well, while in the replay the graphics are completely grainy the resolution is 5120 x 1440 processor Intel i5 8600k motherboard msi z370 gaming pro graphics card amd radeon rx 6800 ram 16 gb monitor samsung odyssey g9 Sorry my english
I never knew what FXAA does. Then again, I don't have the time to tinker with the settings. Usually I'd look up what the acronym means, and that would give me a clue on what it is. Well... something to adjust next time I'm on the sim. Edit - I turned off FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) and the game is way sharper. It feels like I had laser corrective surgery or something. LOL. Thanks for the tip.