Add FXAA support to OA and Arma3- Many AA bugs fixed

[metalcraze 290]

No AA:

http://i43.tinypic.com/14r4sn.jpg

SMAA:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2rhpoit.jpg

4x FSAA (but with AToC - still more jaggies than with SMAA at a higher FPS price though!):

http://i41.tinypic.com/11uglc2.jpg

[maddogx 13]

Woah, the SMAA screenshot looks pretty amazing. :eek:

[nikiforos 450]

I cant see any big difference but it may be just me :)

[maddogx 13]

Here is a portion of the image, 2x enlarged for your convenience.

First the standard in-game 4x FSAA version:

Now the same part with FSAA:

Note the smoother edges in the SMAA screenshot, and this is (according to metalcraze) with less of a performance impact than FSAA.

[nikiforos 450]

OK thank now I can see it. How fast can this be implemented into the game?

[humvee28 10]

SMAA performs way better than FXAA imho. Maybe it´s a little bit OT Gamewise, but i have made some comparsion Screenshots too in GTA4, where PP-AA is the only Way to kill Edges beside DS.

NO SMAA

Injected SMAA (Preset Ultra 4, best Quality, nearly none FPS lost)

Not bad, isn´t it? :)

Edited December 6, 2011 by Humvee28
New Pics uploaded

[-=seany=- 5]

Great to see there is an SMAA Injector now! Been waiting to try this for since I heard about it. I hope it is as effective as FXAA with things like white alpha outlines around models and the buggy white speckles on the OA foliage.

I'm sure BIS will add it in when they get a chance.

[froggyluv 2135]

SMAA: Awesome

Hi, that looks amazing. This stuff is generally over my paygrade but how did you get this to take effect? I placed the 3 files in my Beta folder (still using 1.59) and the game starts to load then just stops and goes to desktop without error.

Would love to try :)

EDIT: Ahh, Nm -needed to be in root Arma 2.

Edited December 6, 2011 by froggyluv

[humvee28 10]

I´ve made a little mistake. There was an FXAA File left in my Game Folder which i have overseen.

I have uploaded new Pics, and now the Difference is awesome! Please make SMAA possible for ArmA too. The Quality / Performance Ratio is outstanding. :)

[h8er 10]

I've tried the SMAA injector, i think this new antialias algo is absolutely brilliant, the quality is very good and it's less hardware demanding than standard antialias, i play at 1920x1200 with high details with a GTX 570 and now with this one i can always keep about 60 fps in chernarus forest (with the standard antialias in some scenes the framerate drops to 30-45 fps), the only problem i found is a sort of characters corruption in game menus probably because the algo tries to apply smoothing to them too (look at the word "Restart" and "Ace settings" in the two screenshot)

SMAA

http://img173.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=308819569_arma2oa2011_12_0716_41_07_02_122_162lo.jpg

No antialias

http://img209.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=308822521_arma2oa2011_12_0716_41_11_80_122_537lo.jpg

Edited December 8, 2011 by h8er

[wiggum2 31]

Is this SMAA Injector the same like those FXAA stuff ?

Just some folders and files to copy ?

Will it work on ATI too ?

And what Catalyst is at least needed to get it working ?

[Dwarden 1125]

yes, it works exactly the same and yes it works on both ATI and NVIDIA

any driver (or anything not years old)

[humvee28 10]

Little Hint :

Seems like that SMAA and Blastcore doesn´t work very well together (I´ve got overall morphing and muddy Textures).

If you use ArmA with Mods and run into the same Problem, then this could be a Solution. :)

[Dwarden 1125]

unless mod use some injector it should not ... usually overlays are problem

[humvee28 10]

It´s the only Mod which causes such visual Problems for me..hm..

I have played around with SMAA awhile now, and i´ve discovered another Problem (tested with 1.60 RC on Utes in Editor, no Mods) :

When i use a Soldier with a scoped Weapon, and switch a few times the Sight between Scope and normal View, the Texture-LODs are getting muddy. Beside that i have noted a wierd Entry in the VRAM lines of the OAConfig when using ít.

This was the correct Config Entry before i applied SMAA into Game-Directory:

localVRAM=1059512320;
nonlocalVRAM=2147483647;

And this after applying it :

localVRAM=378394624;
nonlocalVRAM=378394624;

seems like that SMAA is screwing up something. :confused:

[ginger mcale 11]

Can confirm this. Observated the same behaviour with the FXAA injector. Wasnt sure if has something to do with the injector, something on my system or with the beta of OA.

Low resolution textures when going into scope (not always, depends on distance to object).

[humvee28 10]

FXAA hasn´t to be activated anymore via Injector. It is aviable via OAConfig since a few Betas ago. ;)

Seems like that SMAA has to be implemented properly in the Engine first to get a good Result. I hope this will be the Case in the Future. :)

[metalcraze 290]

Yeah hopefully before 1.60 is out BIS will ditch FXAA in a favour of SMAA

[MavericK96 0]

,

Yeah hopefully before 1.60 is out BIS will ditch FXAA in a favour of SMAA

Hopefully not before, as I'd like to see 1.60 soon.

[bangtail 0]

SMAA 1.2 is out.

http://mrhaandi.blogspot.com/p/injectsmaa.html

Seems to alleviate the conflict with EVGA precision (Haven't checked with Afterburner but the problem was with the same file so I would imagine it will be ok).

[metalcraze 290]

There was a conflict with EVGA Precision?

[humvee28 10]

TY for the Info.

[bangtail 0]

There was a conflict with EVGA Precision?

1.1 was causing games to crash with Afterburner or Precision enabled (Steam overlay as well apparently).

Edited December 12, 2011 by BangTail

[MavericK96 0]

Odd, I never had a problem with 1.1 and I use Afterburner.

---------- Post added at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:20 PM ----------

Oh, there's also a new FXAA implementation coming soon as well (4.0)

http://timothylottes.blogspot.com/2011/12/fxaa-40-will-have-new-spatial-only.html

[bangtail 0]

Well, it's been mentioned on the main site and Guru3d etc. I guess it doesn't affect everyone the same way but I couldn't launch anything with 1.1 while Precision was active, it would just crash any given game a couple of seconds after I clicked the icon.

At any rate, it was more to say that 1.2 was available :)

FXAA Injector tool:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=355472

Edited December 13, 2011 by BangTail