Thanks for the update Boris!

New transparency AA option looks fantastic - with hardware AA, and no deferred rendering enabled, the grass looks very sharp and the performance drop isn't too bad and I have a LOT of grass (Lush grass meshes, Flora Overhaul Summer and Grass on Steroids.) Any other way to get ambient occlusion in this mode other than forcing Nvidia's?

Without hardware AA and deferred rendering it looks a little softer, but still looks great though - grass is better defined, lose about 10 fps in heavy grass areas.

Transparency AA doesn't seam to work at same time as temporal AA - is that right? (Doesn't need to though as looks much sharper without.)

Overall a fine graphic update - makes Flora Overall mod look amazing!

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Did some TransparencyAA tests (with hardware AA disabled, EdgeAA disabled, TAA disabled):
- Performance cost is about 12%.
- Doesn't seem to produce a very good result IMO. Objects in middle/far distance look exactly the same as before. Objects very close to player look... different. Thicker. Not better, not worse. Certainly no less aliased.

Conclusion: No point in enabling it. Performance drop for no gain. Nvidia user.

Just a question : is using MSAA with TransparentAA disables other effects like before ? I haven't enabled Hardware Antialiasing for a while.

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In addition to this I have another question. In Nvidia there is the multiple AA settings - what should they be set to?

Antialiasing - Mode: should this be application controlled or off?
Antialiasing - Setting: Assume this would be ignored since above would be off or app controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency: Should this be enabled? If so I would assume supersampling is the best option

In other words when people are talking about enabling the hardware do they mean turning on the AA mode in Nvidia or turning on just the transparent AA setting or both of them? What should the skyrimpref.ini settings be? Off? or set to 2, 4, or 8 for AA? Also there is a transparency multisampling setting in the skyrimpref.ini - should that be enabled?



Thanks for any clarification. I want to provide some instructions on the ENB I manage. Somber ENB Lut Sepia has gone SweetFX free - everything is now using pure ENB files and settings - and I want to help people get the most out of the 4 AA methods now provided by ENB.

Really appreciate any answers to the above!

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Boris very good

I guess though the Temporal AA causes some heavy blur i wonder what will be better now pp sharpening or negative lod, without bringing the AA back,disabling EdgeAA seems also a possibility to gain better texture resolution though as expected lot of edges AA then again

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Thanks for the update Boris.

I cannot seem to find the indicated added parameters to enbeffect.fx (gamma, brightness, contrast, saturation, balance, etc) as stated in the description for 215. Is this a misprint or am I blind? There are also no such options available in the Shader portion of the GUI Editor.

Also, I interpret the TransparencyAA to work with in game MSAA with no other loss of effects, however, enabling MSAA in game and enabling Transparency AA causes ENB to report detection of hardware aliasing and a reduction of available effects. Perhaps my interpretation is incorrect?

CruNcher
Ssao may not work only when you don't see anything, then not play. So my answer is not.

electricsheep26354
Ssao not work in antialiased mode, i can't make old code from 0.119 only to support ssao which look buggy triangulated without deffer.

Yes.

KuroTenshi
MSAA disable most effects.

wolfgrimdark
Don't touch anything in drivers, there is a game and the mod, everything else from devil.

Dinkledorf
Parameters only visible in shaders window of editor, when my enbeffect.fx file used. Preset makers must copy code and parameters to their shaders. I can't find any better solution without loosing something.

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I've played on and off with hardware AA for some time now and these are my findings (I'm sure Boris will correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.)

To enable Nvidea ENB transparency AA you just need to set the in-game AA either by ini file or Skyrim launcher - you will get MSAA of the quality you set 2,4,8 - IMO there's not much difference between 4 and 8 - set to user quality desired v hardware performance. You don't need to touch Nvidia control panel or inspector to set, however you can force higher AA quality settings via these. I believe transparency AA in the Nvidia control panel will be similar to ENB, not sure if it applies to all the same objects - you can set quality level via Nvidia 2,4,8 - don't know what equivalent level ENB version is, haven't tested and compared yet.)

Don't know what effect transparency AA in Skyrim ini has

As far as effects used in ENB with hardware AA - all differed rendering doesn't work properly i.e SSAO/IL, reflections, imaged based lighting. You may see these still set when you start a game with hardware AA and differed effects still enabled but you will see visual bugs - hit Apply button in GUI or change settings to disable these effects.

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I had iMultiSample=2 and bFXAAEnabled=1 in SkyrimPrefs.ini, but setting both to 0 allowed TranAA to work. I got 12% lower performance with TranAA enabled.
I have AA on in SkyrimPrefs.ini for 1600x900, and setting them to zero for 1080p had too much low to high fps in an outside cell since my single 7850 GPU. It's time for me to save money for SLI.

EDIT: The disappearing textures in an internal cell like Underston Keep is fixed with 0.215 when AA on in SkyrimPrefs.ini and UseDeferredRendering=true.
EDIT2: Enabling SSAO brought back the disappearing textures.

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RUS:
С версией 0.215 появилась вот такая проблема:
http://i.imgur.com/LpjxjeD.jpg

1. Текстура четкая.
2. Та же текстура, но размытая.

Если подойти ближе, то размытая текстура становится четкой, будто есть какой-то кокон, после которого текстуры начинают размываться.
Включение или отключение любого параметра *AA ничего не решает.
Пока заметно очень сильно на камнях, т.к. там текстура высокого разрешения, в других местах не так заметно.

ENG:
With version 0.215 there is such a problem:
http://i.imgur.com/LpjxjeD.jpg

1. Texture clear.
2. The same texture, but blurred.

If you come closer, blurred texture becomes clear, if there is a cocoon, after which the textures are beginning to blur.
Enable or disable any parameter * AA does not solve anything.
While very much on the rocks, because High-resolution texture is there, other places not so noticeable.

Kountervibe v.215
Nvidia.