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Old 04-11-2012, 09:22 PM
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Default Nvidia Beta drivers 301.24, FXAA works in CloD

Hi!

Anyone else that has tried the latest 301.24 beta drivers?

One of the features is the FXAA that I don't remember beeing in the default Nvidia driver before at least (even though I have read others forcing it with third party solutions?)... Not that read up on Anti Aliasing stuff myself.

Anyway, I installed the drivers and went to the "Manage 3D Settings" -> "Program Settings" tab and added the "Launcher.exe". Set the following:

Antialiasing - FXAA = On
Antialiasing - Mode = Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting = 16xQ CSAA (had this before, don't really know how the combination of FXAA and CSAA works... Accept it works for the purpose )
Antialiasing - Transparency: 2x (supersample)

And "tada", CloD looks really nice! The only negative I have found is that the in-game text gets a bit blurry as it does a post render FXAA of the whole screen including text and not only the 3D objects...

An interesting side note:

After adding "Launcher.exe" from the steamapps folder it will show up in the list as "WRC 2010" for me in the Nvidia control panel... Annoying but it works so it does not matter accept you are adviced to look for that coming back to try other settings

Worth trying out! The performance feels really good too.

EDIT:

Updated with findings I posted later in this thread with help of others and added a full size screenshot (I run a small 1680x1050 120Hz monitor ) as I realized that the normal "print screen" function works now (did not work initially in CloD but that maybe that was the "pseudo" mode causing it?). Now the print screen works and captures the image as I see it, for some reason Fraps that I have used for CloD screenshots captures it "before" the FXAA is applied(?) so it gets all jagged...

And yes, the radio wire does not look that good when you are not zoomed in maximum as I was for this shot...

EDIT 2: More screenies... As can be seen, the FXAA can't do anything about the radio wires at long distance as they don't get the whole wire

/Mazex
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Last edited by mazex; 04-12-2012 at 06:48 PM.
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