It's been beaten to death since the day V2.0 was released. SteveW has documented AA issues very well in many threads. For now in order to eliminate jaggies you literally have a choice of either SGSAA x2/ x4/x8 or DSR...and get of good video card for a sake of your nerves and healthy vision. All other minor stuff such "I just found the new drivers got me 5000% FPS boost" does not deserve attention. The problem is much more fundamental that just a "new driver" 

 

If you're responding to the title of this thread (but didn't bother to read the first post), the new drivers fixed artifacts with the z buffer and MFAA.

First there were screenshots where MFAA showed a difference and now it does nothing ... ?

 

Not really.

No one has posted an MFAA on/off comparison.

 

gb.

 the new drivers fixed artifacts with the z buffer and MFAA.

But who told you? Where did you read?

Relatively to P3D, this driver is identical to the others and MFAA does not work because P3D is not ready to it.

Have to agree. Been testing with MFAA and DSR extensively for the past few days and see no difference with MFAA on. DSR just causes more shimmering for me.

 

So it's back to good old MSAA with SGSS. 

See post 20 for the difference....

To be honest I was skeptical about MFAA working with Prepar3d.

 

But it works (yellow : FPS)

 

I see no difference with MFAA enabled.

 

Also, according to the Nvidia website, the title itself has to support MFAA. Right now, that official list is a small one and P3D is not included.

GSalden, on 26 Feb 2016 - 2:15 PM, said:

 

See post 20 for the difference....

The two images are identical, they are different parts of the wing and if you look them in continuity you will find out.

 

Edit: I add, at the risk of being banned, that the image is a photomontage, a hoax.

It is a unique image divided into two parts with photoshop or another. (Watch the clouds).

But doesn't MFAA switch between frames to simulate better AA without being better? So a still, a screenshot of MSAA, with and without MFAA, would look more or less the same? It's just that with MFAA the sample origin repositions with each frame. Suited to faster frame rates and can cause shimmer.

Steve, sorry, MFAA was also present in the previous driver.

So, the hypothetical functioning of it could depend only on changes made by LM, which was not done.

To be sure I have asked about it at the LM forum...

MFAA + 2X SGSS AA does actually work well, but I'm finding it takes a huge FPS hit with Volumetric fog enabled with the "Fogged in" weather theme ... but I was running VERY extreme graphics settings (with many many add-ons).

 

I haven't tried MFAA with MSAA yet, next test.

 

Cheers, Rob.

It's true that "Fogged In" default theme is quite resource intensive. ASN Next is more merciful in drawing foggy situations in the sim. My biggest issue with SGSSAA is overcast. Once you have more than 5 layers of overcast, be prepared for 11-13FPS while approaching the clouds' front (FPS tend to stabilize once you inside or below the front). Neither i7-6700k oc-ed to 4.7 nor GTX980Ti help here :-(

Here's a good overview of MFAA:

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/mfaa-multi-frame-sample-aa-guide-review,1.html

But doesn't MFAA switch between frames to simulate better AA without being better? So a still, a screenshot of MSAA, with and without MFAA, would look more or less the same? It's just that with MFAA the sample origin repositions with each frame. Suited to faster frame rates and can cause shimmer.

 

I was quite into MFAA when it was first released and did a bit of research into it. MFAA technically produces a image that is double the set MSAA. So 2xMSAA with MFAA is supposed to look like 4xMSAA and this actually shows in supported titles. It worked for me in both AC Unity and Witcher 3.

 

I also thought I saw more shimmering in P3D with MFAA on but I think it was just a placebo effect.

 

 

MFAA + 2X SGSS AA does actually work well, but I'm finding it takes a huge FPS hit with Volumetric fog enabled with the "Fogged in" weather theme ... but I was running VERY extreme graphics settings (with many many add-ons).

 

I haven't tried MFAA with MSAA yet, next test.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but MFAA is not a form of anti-aliasing that can be executed by itself, which means setting MFAA on in the control panel and then not setting any MSAA in game will actually do nothing.

 

There haven't been any published results of running MFAA on SGSS AA and improving upon it so I'm not sure about that though.

 

 

That being said I'm quite certain that the others are correct to say that P3D is not actually a MFAA supported title.

MFAA is not even in my Nvidia Control panel with latest drivers. Only in NI.

 

That seems like we have different options as well

 

GTX970´s here

 

Michael Moe