Guild Wars 2

Really, is there any way to antialiase gw2 with a better antialiasing tecnology? FXAA blurs everything, same goes with sweetfx or SMAA.

I tried MSAA on RadeonPro but it seems that gw2 engine doesn’t suport it.

Has anyone got a good config for either custom FXAA, SMAA, SFX whatever that doesn’t blur the game?

I’m leaving it off by now, textures look so much better, but the game gets all jagged.

Best bet for GW2’s kitty engine is just higher resolution, unfortunately.

bwillb.2165:

Best bet for GW2’s kitty engine is just higher resolution, unfortunately.

AND Supersampling.

You can force AA via your GPU’s control panel and override application settings (it helps alot, actually). But depending on your Res and what sampling your using in game. FXAA might be your only option.

what about using FXAA from sweetFX?

or better yet SMAA from sweetFX?

aluisiora.4568:

Really, is there any way to antialiase gw2 with a better antialiasing tecnology? FXAA blurs everything, same goes with sweetfx or SMAA.

I tried MSAA on RadeonPro but it seems that gw2 engine doesn’t suport it.

Has anyone got a good config for either custom FXAA, SMAA, SFX whatever that doesn’t blur the game?

I’m leaving it off by now, textures look so much better, but the game gets all jagged.

SweetFX can be tweaked to your liking. If you think it’s too blurry, try changing the “LumaSharpen settings” – define sharp_strength. Personally I run with quite a high value on that setting since I like that look.
Just play around with the “SweetFX_settings.txt”-file.

Try downsampling.
Add a custom resolution higher than ur native resolution to ur GPU control panel. Then run GW2 at said resolution.

I personaly have FXAA off in GW2, and run at 3200×1800 downsampled + Gw2’s SuperSampling, on a 1920×1080 native screen.

here’s what I use:
https://mega.co.nz/#!1R1mHZpY!CpUV-E4Csjj7vrC2JeEM3Af2ZQ1AqYwdruIsVFWF7vQ

I cant seem to get bloom to look like I want, but this is pretty good.

SolarNova.1052:

Try downsampling.
Add a custom resolution higher than ur native resolution to ur GPU control panel. Then run GW2 at said resolution.

I personaly have FXAA off in GW2, and run at 3200×1800 downsampled + Gw2’s SuperSampling, on a 1920×1080 native screen.

This worked like a charm! Shame gw2’s engine doesn’t suport MSAA, SS will do for now, I’ll try to use it more on GPU instead of CPU, I’m sure the performance hit will be low.

NeedCoffee.1402:

here’s what I use:
https://mega.co.nz/#!1R1mHZpY!CpUV-E4Csjj7vrC2JeEM3Af2ZQ1AqYwdruIsVFWF7vQ

I cant seem to get bloom to look like I want, but this is pretty good.

I tried you settings also, unfortunatly it got blurred too, tested with another screen and it was much better, guess my screen is the problem, sad I can’t get another right now.

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So temporarily I’ll stick with Super Sample, I hope that people with the same “problem” try this too.

PS: about the performance…
In Lion’s Arch: avg 47fps

Driver side:
Forced Vsync, 60hz, triple buffering, capped at 59fps.
Anisotropic Filtering x16

My Comp:
i7 4770k @ 3,5ghz
R7870 Ghz Edition
8gb G.skill Sniper 1600mhz
Asrock H87 Fatal1ty Performance

I use FXAA PPI for enhanced anti-aliasing, color richness, bloom effect, sharpness, etc. Quick and easy to set up and run. Can use it in many games without installing it in each game or copying configuration files anywhere. All profiles are switchable, copyable, removable within the program.

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/wiki
Grab the latest FxaaToolSVN117 from the ‘Files’ tab.
Hitting the download button from the main page is the FxaaToolSVN112 as it hasn’t been updated with the latest version available.

Can view them here: http://stinvec.imgur.com if you would like.
I also have side-by-side comparisons with ‘vanilla’ GW2 settings there.

See if you’d like to give it a try based on my screens.

I haven’t used Sweet FX for quite a while, but I have no real desire to switch from FXAA PPI as I’m very happy with its options and results. Also, having absolutely no game crash issues that I see others having with Sweet FX is nice. I’m not sure if one is better than the other in a broad or technical sense, but I find FXAA PPI to be very easy to adjust with clearly defined effects so it is easy to know what to tweak to get the results I desire. It really has a lot of options. I also have absolutely no performance loss with it unless I go real overboard on the bloom passes.

Here was a discussion from about 8 months ago with some others on the application. Some more info there as well:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/8-months-and-zero-optimization/1904467
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/8-months-and-zero-optimization/1910878

It has some settings screenshots/file links there also for what settings I was using at the time. I switch up and tweak them frequently. If I am on my warrior I tend to adjust settings so I roam areas with almost a medieval tone to where things seem less saturated/cartoony and have a bit of a darker atmosphere or a less rich color to the environment. Sometimes I tweak it so it has that dirty western feel for one of my rangers. Sepia tone, scan line and noise adjustments are really great for this, especially to add a bit of a film grain quality as if in a western movie.