Program to force anti-aliasing

[ClubSpade12]

I already know about the NVIDIA control panel, D3D Overrider, and that, injectssao thingy, none of them actually force anti aliasing. I'm looking to find a way to manually force anti aliasing in games that don't do a good job. Specifically, The Amazing Spiderman, and Rocket League.

 

[king3pj]

When I want anti-aliasing in a game that doesn't have it, doesn't do it well, or creates performance problems I turn it off in the in-game settings and force FXAA for that game in the Nvidia Control Panel. I guess I'm not sure what it is you don't like about doing it that way.

 

[ClubSpade12]

because FXAA isn't very good, that's why.

 

[king3pj]

I guess I can't help you then. Forcing FXAA in Nvidia Control Panel is the only way I know of to get AA outside of the in game settings. Hopefully someone else has another option for you but I am not aware of any.

Edit: Have you tried using Nvidia DSR? I know that some people use this instead of, or in addition to regular AA options. Basically it just renders the game at a higher resolution and then downsamples it to the resolution you are actually playing at. Supposedly this can help with jaggies. The obvious downside is that if you want to render at 4K and downsample your hardware has to be capable of playing the game at 4K.

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/dsr/technology

 

[ClubSpade12]

Yeah actually I use it all the time, but The Amazing Spiderman is so poorly optimized it just doesn't work with it.

 

[hang-the-9]

Yeah actually I use it all the time, but The Amazing Spiderman is so poorly optimized it just doesn't work with it.

So you answered your own question it seems. If you don't like how the in game AA looks or how the video card AA looks, there is no 3rd option. Higher resolution would also work to make it look sharper.

 

[ClubSpade12]

Well yeah I know some ways to help it but they don't work. I can run this game easily but obviously higher resolutions are the most performance demanding. I'm just extremely surprised that there really is no way to force anti alias in DirectX games, I would think that someone would've figured it out by now

 

[king3pj]

I'm just extremely surprised that there really is no way to force anti alias in DirectX games, I would think that someone would've figured it out by now

Well there are ways and they have been pointed out to you in this thread. You just didn't like the answers. Nvidia allows you to force FXAA or use DSR. AMD also has a way to force AA.

The reality is that there probably isn't much demand for more third party options because both GPU makers have their own and most modern games have plenty of AA options built in.

 

[ClubSpade12]

Ok fair point, I should've mentioned in the OP that I already use DSR, but come on FXAA is KNOWN for being the less effective genuinely unliked form of anti-aliasing. I don't like it for open world games because it makes everything blurry.

 

[king3pj]

Luckily just about every big modern release has a few different AA options built in. Not much you can do about older titles besides what was already mentioned here.