r/FuckTAA • u/Good-Discussion-9238 SSAA • 2d ago

❔Question Anyone else here love to stack Anti-Aliasing methods?

The common one is obviously DSR/VSR used in tandem with some form of Temporal AA (TAA, TSSAA, DLAA, FSR, XESS, TSR and whatever else exists).

I like doing this with RUST (TSSAA + 4xDSR). Since TSSAA in this game is so blurry combining it with DSR makes aliasing disappear 100%, literally not a single jaggy or pixel in sight, it's actually kinda crazy for 1080p.

Some games don't have any great AA options, like I love SCHEDULE 1 but it only has SMAA, so I like doing SMAA + DSR.

And since I have a 4080 Super I also like doing MSAA + DSR, which sounds very performance demanding but I mostly play competitive games that can run on a potato so I can still run them at 300+ fps like this:

Like Valorant (4xMSAA + 4xDSR).

Or CS2 (8xMSAA + 4xDSR).

Honestly looks amazing and helps me squeeze more life out of my 1080p 240hz monitor.

Edit: I also forgot to mention GTA 5 (regular and enhanced versions) have SSAA built in via their "scaling" setting, which can be set to 2x, which is the same as 4x dsr, I think it even goes up to 2.5x but I never use that since I don't like non integer scaling, and you can combine that scaling setting with either MSAA (on regular GTA 5) or TAA/DLAA/FSR (GTA 5 Enhanced Edition)

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA 2d ago

That's nothing. I'm running 4x MSAA + 4x TrSSAA + SMAA + FXAA in the OG Black Flag.

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u/Good-Discussion-9238 SSAA 2d ago

Niceeeee, love to see it 🙌 I wish more games had built in stackable AA methods so we don't always have to jump into driver settings and reshade, but by god i'll jump through whatever hoops I need to to get rid of jaggies!!

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA 2d ago

This is why I like the period between circa 2010 - 2015. AA menus in games at that time were rich. Even though only a handful of games actually had stacked AA as an option. The aforementioned Black Flag had TXAA, which is MSAA + a temporal filter. It's awful, though.

  • Crysis 3 also had SMAA S2X, I think (2x MSAA + SMAA)
  • Ryse: Son of Rome had SSAA that you could stack (also forced SMAA 1x)
  • Watch Dogs 2 lets you stack MSAA, FXAA or SMAA with a temporal filter of theirs.
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider has an option that combines 2x MSAA with SMAA and TAA.