I recommend you guys use this Post FX tweak for far cry 3 right away when you get it, cause the Post FX are a joke, the game looks much better if disabled 100%
 
the game options only let you set it down to low so you have to edit a file to disable it completely.
 
http://forums.ubi.com/sho...Disable-Depth-Of-Field
 
It will not only look better but you will gain about 10fps.
 
and yes the jagged edges on the trees are effected by Post FX instead of AA, don't ask me why.
 

 

 

hmm why would they include post FX if it makes it look worse lol.  That is lame of them

Yea something isn't right there Ive taken several screenshots with PostFX on Low / medium / high / very high / ultra and it looks less aliased the higher up you go, Ultra vs. Low is pretty noticeable.
 
However I haven't tried actually disabling it like the OP suggests, Ill have to try that and get back.

Awesome! Thanks for this!

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JWhitton

Yea something isn't right there Ive taken several screenshots with PostFX on Low / medium / high / very high / ultra and it looks less aliased the higher up you go, Ultra vs. Low is pretty noticeable.

However I haven't tried actually disabling it like the OP suggests, Ill have to try that and get back.

yea true that low vs ultra makes some difference sorta on AA

this tweak is mainly targeted to those that hate motion blur and depth of field though (I'm one of them) and thats all the post FX does mostly in this particular game.

Ah hah, this is good to know, thanks.

EVGA_JacobF

1ceTr0n

I never run AA in any of my games, never cared for it in all the years of my PC gaming, i'd rather have more framerate then worry about how "jaggy" the stupid edges look. Im honestly too busy playing the game to notice them, and at resolutions of 1600x or higher, whats the freaking point?

Because the higher the resolution, typically the larger the display, the larger the display, the larger the pixels, the larger the pixels, the more jaggies there are :)

 
even at 1920x1080 on a 21" screen I notice the jaggies, but thanks to the FXAA option its no issue anymore, gives the appearance of AA without the performance loss.

EVGA_JacobF

Yes, some don't like FXAA because of a bit of blurring, personally I cannot stand jaggies so I love FXAA. Right now its killing me on Hitman because I cannot run 8xAA :)

 
You are thinking of TXAA aren't you? I never had any blurring with FXAA
 
http://www.anandtech.com/...ce-gtx-660-ti-review/6
 

FXAA does add blur to the picture. Check out geforce BF3 tweak guide under anti-aliasing. You will see it right away when comparing pictures. Its even worse in motion. I hate it.
 

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EVGA_JacobF

Yes, some don't like FXAA because of a bit of blurring, personally I cannot stand jaggies so I love FXAA. Right now its killing me on Hitman because I cannot run 8xAA :)

You are thinking of TXAA aren't you? I never had any blurring with FXAA

http://www.anandtech.com/...ce-gtx-660-ti-review/6

FXAA

 
enjoy your blur........

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squall-leonhart

FXAA

enjoy your blur........

It does NOT blur anything, I dunno what you guys are talking about.

maybe its just the games I'm playing but I don't notice it and this is coming from someone that hates depth of field and motion blur too.

FXAA is a post processing method for AA which comes at the cost of image blur and because of the way it works its impossible to use it without getting some blur, I see a huge difference in BF3 with it enabled as well as in Skyrim. Personally I hate the blurry effect that comes with FXAA and choose to stick with traditional MSAA.

I use FXAA in everything I can and it looks great.  If it was blurry, I wouldn't be using it.
 
In response to the OP, here are some more tips to speed up Far Cry 3.
http://windows7themes.net/10-tips-to-speed-up-far-cry-3.html

I remember someone posted a couple screenshots from Secret World awhile back and I couldn't tell the difference between the FXAA and TXAA screenshots.
 
I realize you're stating what you know but I haven't seen any negative effects while using FXAA.

None

 
FXAA

 
SMAA

 
Pay close attention to texture detail, and reflected lighting on the chain mesh between plating.

squall-leonhart

None


FXAA


SMAA


Pay close attention to texture detail, and reflected lighting on the chain mesh between plating.

 
Playing BF3 or Skyrim with FXAA enabled and then disabled shows a huge difference as well, both games with FXAA enabled are noticeably blurry compared to just using traditional MSAA. I really dont think most folks understand the way FXAA works because if they did then they would understand that its impossible for it not to blur the image to some degree, some games being more noticeable than others I suppose.

FXAA still has smoother and finer edges than both None and SMAA in the last post.  I'd rather anti-aliased edges than jaggies..

 
I get the feeling you don't read many image quality reviews.
The shots were scaled up to 150% with nearest neighbour filtering to show the loss of detail and blur that FXAA causes as opposed to SMAA.
 
At actual size, you won't notice the Jaggies, and infact, you'll find SMAA performs better on overall to eradicate jaggies especially where deferred lighting is used without destroying specular glints and strobe effects across metal surfaces.
 
If you pay attention to the back of my char's boot, the SMAA image is actually smoother, as the FXAA blur causes a bend to occur in the straight surface.
 
Not the only point where FXAA warps textures either.