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Skyrim AA and AF - Best way to go?

Rhezuss

Rhezuss

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Some of you already know that using in-game AA is a performance killer. On my end, I can't use AA at 4x because Skyrim is the lag fest.

I tried to force them in CCC but looks like AA doesn't even work. I get jaggy edges anyways even at 8xEQ on Edge-detect and SSAA mode.

Thing is, in-game AA at 4x look really good but renders the game unplayable for me.
Don't want the blurriness of FXAA or MLAA...

So, did some of you found a way to get AA working without hurting your framerate?
 
Not sure why in-game AA would be killing performance on your end, OP. I'm pretty sure I have it enabled in-game, and it runs fine for me. My setup is less powerful than yours.
 
I have only a slightly more powerful card than you, but I have never noticed any slow downs with 4x AA and 16x AF. Do you have a bunch of mods running that are pulling down the frame rates?
 
Martimus said:
I have only a slightly more powerful card than you, but I have never noticed any slow downs with 4x AA and 16x AF. Do you have a bunch of mods running that are pulling down the frame rates?
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No mods at all.

The only way I can play the game smoothly is with 2xAA/16xAF. More than that for AA and it's killing performances to 20-25 FPS...really annoying.

I read when the game released that there was problems with in-game AA but damn...what's going on!

I'm running the game on Ultra at 1080p resolution with some minor tweaks in the Skyrimprefs.ini. Should I lower some settings like shadows?
 
I don't know. I run it at 1920x1200, so even my resolution is higher than yours (albeit slightly). I have every setting at max, and have not once noticed a slowdown. It might have something to do with the CPU, but you say that it is only bad with higher AA, so it wouldn't make that much difference. I would try reducing shadows though, since I think that can be a big performance driver IIRC.
 
I have a 560ti, 1GB, and am running at 1920 x 1200 with 8xAA and 16xAF (Ultra settings) and I don't see any lag due to AA. Like you, I tried disabling in game and enabling in the video driver profile for TESV.exe, just to see if it worked and would perform better or worse, but it had no effect.
 
If I put Shadow Quality to High instead of Ultra I get excellent FPS with 4x/16x but shadows look ugly.

I guess i'll keep the shadows on Ultra but set AA to 2x and keep AF to 16x. It's good looking anyways.
 
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