Smaa, fxaa?????

[aimerleg 1]

Greetings everyone, google was not very helpfull when i searched "Arma 2 How to enable FXAA" (or SMAA)

So I come here, many of the tuts said its in your config thing, i found it, opened it, see a bunch of options but no SMAA or FXAA (or i am just blind)

I launch my game through WithSix and i noticed alot of people have the SMAA/FXAA options in their ingame video options, i dont?

So my question is, how do i enable it?

I have a Gforce (Nvidia) video card, Help :/

All advice/Tutorials will be appreciated.

[purepassion 22]

Have you all the latest patches installed?

[aimerleg 1]

Uhm...i think so? I says i have

1.62.0.103718

[purepassion 22]

Then you should definitely find the option either in the video option settings ingame or your Arma 2(OA) .cfg file which is under your documents. The cfg file contains lines like these:

language="German";
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=93750;
Resolution_Bpp=32;
Resolution_W=1920;
Resolution_H=1080;
refresh=60;
winX=5;
winY=30;
winW=1269;
winH=948;
winDefW=1269;
winDefH=948;
Render_W=1920;
Render_H=1080;
FSAA=2;
postFX=0;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3;
HDRPrecision=16;
lastDeviceId="";
localVRAM=2131959808;
nonlocalVRAM=1857810432;
Windowed=0;
vsync=1;
AToC=0;
FXAA=8;
PPAA=3;
PPAA_Level=3;
serverLongitude=51;
serverLatitude=9;
class ModLauncherList

[aimerleg 1]

Okay i found PPAA and PAA Level, ATOC and FSAA, but theres no FXAA between ATOV and PPAA

Should i create it?

[purepassion 22]

Perhaps you have changed some settings in your NVIDIA panel?

But yeah, go ahead and just try to add it there and see what happens.

[aimerleg 1]

Ok, so i found out this:

With Anti aliasing disabled, everything is smooth (As if it is enabled) which means one of them worked...Second is there is no motion blur which is normaly caused by FXAA, which is rather worrying. Also, is there anyway to make shrubs not kill your FPS? I will also see what i can do in the panel.

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Nothing seems wrong with the panel, i tried turning FXAA on within the panel, will see if it does something.

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FXAA in nvidia control panel did nothing...except make HUD blury.

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Also, i dont understand why I dont find those options in the ingame menu.

[purepassion 22]

Motion blur is part of the post-process settings and not bound to FXAA. And yeah you can disable the normal AA and replace it with FXAA or SMAA.

It's really strange you don't see the option in your ingame meu. can you post a screenshot?

[aimerleg 1]

How the hell do i just drag an image onto this forum/Post it without having ti go through the mess of putting it online?

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Uhm,.,,i click print screen, but it wont printscreen Arma, it printscreens whatever i have open on the pulpit, fml.

[purepassion 22]

yeah that doesn't work. if you have it on steam, you can use steam's screenshot feature or just download a trial version of fraps or some other capturing tool.

[aimerleg 1]

Uhm, sure...i will do something about it...

But for now, i can see everything untill i reach HDR and Anti aliasing (ofcourse i see the blur motion thing options too)

It looks as if there is space for another line of options, but they are empty.

[Dwarden 1124]

PPAA replaced the FXAA/SMAA in config file, as it's now Post Process Anti Aliasing

[aimerleg 1]

Fraps saves images as BMP when your not member *Facepalm*

http://imgur.com/i36flo7

Edit, thanks Dwarden.

[chrisb 196]

If you beta up your ingame menu should look like this. If you don't want to beta up then you have to get into your game configs and do it in there..

FXAA for me, as here, is what I like, although its nice to check each out..

[aimerleg 1]

What do you mean "Beta up your ingame menu" ...how?

[chrisb 196]

What do you mean "Beta up your ingame menu" ...how?

Sorry, it was a bit vague wasn’t it. I mean bring your game upto the latest Beta patch rather than just the most recent official game patch. There are drawbacks of course using the beta, it is work in progress i.e. upto the next game patch release, so may be unstable now and then..

I always run the latest beta’s when playing, but its not to everyone’s taste.

Beta here. (it will alter your in-game menu as well). Be sure to read up before using the beta, just to make sure you want to use it, search on the forum here, there's lots about it.:)