How to enable SSAA with new catalyst drivers?

[yhelothar]

I used to be able to enable them with the 10 series of drivers. Now in the 12 series, I'm not seeing it in the menu?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Click preferences on the top right and make sure you have Advanced mode activated.

After that it's in the gaming tab on the left side of the window.

 

[yhelothar]

It's not there. I have advanced mode enabled.

 

[MTDEW]

What CCC version do you have?
With the latest 12.2 drivers my CCC version is 2012.0214.2218.39913

 

[yhelothar]

Mine is identical: 2012.0214.2218.39913

 

[blackened23]

My CCC doesn't look like that at all, weird. Maybe do a clean install of the drivers or something, the slider should be multisample/adaptive AA/super sample AA.

 

[MTDEW]

Mine look like this.
They're the official 12.2's even though they are listed as 12.3's in CCC.
Did you use anything like driver sweeper/Atiman b4 updating?
Or did you just install over top the old drivers?

 

[blackened23]

Do you normally have override AA enabled? Why? Override AA doesn't perform as well as native AA, you should never enable it unless you're using an application without native AA.

 

[MTDEW]

Do you normally have override AA enabled? Why? Override AA doesn't perform as well as native AA, you should never enable it unless you're using an application without native AA.

They're just my specific settings for Mass Effect 3 which is what i'm currently playing.

 

[yhelothar]

Mine look like this.
They're the official 12.2's even though they are listed as 12.3's in CCC.
Did you use anything like driver sweeper/Atiman b4 updating?
Or did you just install over top the old drivers?

I just did a clean install of windows and installed 12.1. I didn't see Anti-Aliasing mode in the menu, so I updated to 12.2 by installing over 12.1.

I just did a clean install of windows because previously, I used driver sweeper and it totally fucked up my windows installation, preventing me from properly installing catalyst drivers. I looked around for a solution, and all of the suggestions is a reinstallation of windows is required. Driver Sweeper doesn't seem to like windows 7?

 

[yhelothar]

I'm using Radeon 4890 if that possibly has to do with anything.

 

[MTDEW]

All i can tell you is i keep an image(acronis true image) of my clean install of Win7 with no audio and video drivers for that very reason.
It takes like 6min to restore an image on my SSD.
So that might be something to consider since it is nice to have a clean image to fall back on when needed, and it comes in handy for testing.

As a matter of fact, I just restored my "clean install" before installing the 12.2's, so mine are installed as clean/bare as you can get.

I'm running dual 6950's, so i have no clue if your 4890 has anything to do with it.
I don't see why it would though but you never know.

 

[MTDEW]

I'd try using the Catalyst install manager and remove just CCC, reboot then try installing just the CCC again.

 

[ViRGE]

I'm using Radeon 4890 if that possibly has to do with anything.

Well there's your problem. SSAA under DX9 is for the 5000 series and later, and SSAA under DX10 is for the 7000 series and later. Sorry.🙁

 

[yhelothar]

Ah I think I had a 5770 a few months ago when I enabled it. I stupidly switched to a 4890 when I saw it on FS for $10 less than a 5770 and seeing it to be ~20% faster in most benches. This thing is a power beast.

 

[BoFox]

Ah I think I had a 5770 a few months ago when I enabled it. I stupidly switched to a 4890 when I saw it on FS for $10 less than a 5770 and seeing it to be ~20% faster in most benches. This thing is a power beast.

That, my friend, was not the best move..

Considering that you lost DX11 support just for $10 and 20% speed gain.

No biggie, really, since 5770 is already a bit outdated for DX11 games anyways -especially if you want SSAA in any games less than 5 years old. I still cannot even play UT2004 (Onslaught) with 4x SSAA on my overclocked GTX 460 1GB!

 

[yhelothar]

That, my friend, was not the best move..

Considering that you lost DX11 support just for $10 and 20% speed gain.

No biggie, really, since 5770 is already a bit outdated for DX11 games anyways -especially if you want SSAA in any games less than 5 years old. I still cannot even play UT2004 (Onslaught) with 4x SSAA on my overclocked GTX 460 1GB!

SSAA is probably one of the best features for older games. I played through the Half Life 2 series with the awesome cinematic mod with max graphics and 4xSSAA with the 5770. It looked amazing.

MSAA looks considerably worse. :\

 

[BoFox]

I did that with HL2 too! I think that AMD could easily enable SSAA for any Radeon cards out there that support Adaptive AA, since Adaptive AA also uses selective SSAA on alpha (transparent) textures. Oh well..