This runs independent of nVidia Inspector Anti Aliasing settings. It piggybacks and enhances/supports them in hardware.

 

You might not have this great Kepler feature running in the driver.

 

Right click on your desktop, and then click on the Nvidia Control Panel.  Click on Manage 3D settings and then check mark the FXAA box.  At the bottom of the screen, click APPLY.  There you go...you're done.  Leave that feature on.  If you read on the Nvidia site, this hardware does not override in game, or Inspector settings, it ENHANCES them.  Try it out, you'll like what you see post check-mark.

 

Mitch

Mitch

What is the difference between this setting and the nVidia Inspector setting as they both use the same source for their graphics settings and if you set this in the NV CP after your NVI settings then some NVI settings could be overridden by the nVidia Control Panel settings. So, is there a difference between the NVI setting and the nvidia CP setting?  I could not see one and prefer to use NVI so there is no clash between the two.

Regards

pH

Use SweetFX instead: both are post-process apps, but SweetFX allows color, vibrance, HDR, gamma and a few other things: very configurable. Here's a few shots of bits of the PNW with very subtle shading.... not the cockpit shadows moving..

 

PS - good to see you're still around, Mitch, and that your enthusiasm hasn't waned at all!  :drinks:

 

All the best,

Interesting thanks for the heads up.

Mitch

What is the difference between this setting and the nVidia Inspector setting as they both use the same source for their graphics settings and if you set this in the NV CP after your NVI settings then some NVI settings could be overridden by the nVidia Control Panel settings. So, is there a difference between the NVI setting and the nvidia CP setting?  I could not see one and prefer to use NVI so there is no clash between the two.

Regards

pH

I actually found out about this setting by going to the nVidia site itself and reading about all the features of the 680 Kepler chip.  The FXAA setting (as they explain) is independent of anything you might use outbound of it (Inspector,etc) and it will piggyback (not overwrite) your other settings and it is designed to hardware enhance whatever you set up. So...I turned it on, and will leave it on as a nice feature of the 680.  

 

Use SweetFX instead: both are post-process apps, but SweetFX allows color, vibrance, HDR, gamma and a few other things: very configurable. Here's a few shots of bits of the PNW with very subtle shading.... not the cockpit shadows moving..

 

PS - good to see you're still around, Mitch, and that your enthusiasm hasn't waned at all!  :drinks:

 

All the best,

Thanks Paul, I'll certainly check your recommendation out.  Having a ball with the 680.  The best money I have ever spent to produce the FSX Joy Factor.....

I'm not 100% positive FXAA works the same in the 600 series and the 500 / 400 series but I'm pretty sure it does. Personally I was far from impressed with FXAA in my 580 but that's just me. Didn't help much with shimmer and made the displays in my cockpit a blurry mess

If you like blurry fuzzy texture I guess FXAA is alright!

 

"FXAA gets applied to the entire screen, it's more like a filter than a proper AA routine. Don't get me wrong, FXAA is great if your GFX card is not too powerful but I doubt you need to use FXAA at all with a 680 GTX. It just makes the screen look grainy or blurred compared to proper Anti-aliasing."

I'm not a fan of FXAA either, at least not with FSX.  If I didn't know better it looks more like "Gaussian Blur" applied real time.

 

Agree with Paul, I don't have SweetFX but from what I've seen it does a great job.  I have downloaded it but I'm waiting to install (still haven't put my Titan card in yet ... too many other projects going).

Tried that SweetFX to all means and settings. Just killed FPS in fullscreen mode. Like 5FPS

"It just makes the screen look grainy or blurred compared to proper Anti-aliasing."   - Sure does -

You guys with a 680 should try 2x or 4x SGSS in good weather. It looks great and that's where the 670/680 really show their muscle, let alone the Titan

4x SGSS in good weather

 

Works great last along time!  :biggrin: Yet to find a good reason to try anything any different.

_Sesquashtoo

_{This can't be correct:}

 

_{I actually found out about this setting by going to the nVidia site itself and reading about all the features of the 680 Kepler chip.  The FXAA setting (as they explain) is independent of anything you might use outbound of it (Inspector,etc) and it will piggyback (not overwrite) your other settings and it is designed to hardware enhance whatever you set up.}

_{As I said above both NVI and the Nvidia CP use exactly the same source code, NVI just gives you more access to "hidden" features.  So setting it in NVI (if you use it) has to be the way to go.  Set it to ON on NV CP and save go into NVI and "disallow" it and set Toggle to OFF and apply changes.  Now go back into NV CP and you will find that it has been turned OFF.}

_Regards

_PeterH