rootsrat
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Any updates on anti-aliasing work?
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Ok well, can't say I would think it is a problem ...Ether your display is nearly unique in the history of displays or the issue is with your inability to perceive what essentially everyone else clearly sees.
Here, I cropped this from the original image and saved it losslessly, no scaling, no resizing, no filtering...every pixel here is as it is in the original:
Every high-contrast edge displayed at anything short of a 90 degree angle has the same problem.
For me that looks like sort of shadows there or reflection.
rootsrat
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But we don't need to, because we know what is wrong and what causes it.
The broken anti aliasing tech in Cobra engine. The devs acknowledged the issue. Sadly it seems it's been on a backburned since this thread. Hopefully now that they have more manpower it will be looked at sooner rather than later. It is absolutely terrible in Elite and it causes really bad shimmering.
There is no more to understand that alliasing doesn't bother you. That doesn't mean that there isn't any. Just that you can't understand what we're talking about or even see it because it doesn't bother you.
...or you're just trolling.
I really tried to understand why those threads pop once per week.
We had issue with orbital lines but I don't think I see that now. I think it was fixed. And that in bar - couldn't event think it is a problem. For me it looks like nails there making reflections.
Those are supposed to be straight, solid, lines...not strings lights. For many it's extremely obtrusive, because it's almost everywhere.
Most other games have much better anti-aliasing.
It wasn't fixed.
That's not what it's supposed to look like, or represent.
Okey fine, if you think it is a problem fight for solution
I still play MM6 made before AA tech was invented
Anti-aliasing was developed in the 1970s.
Regardless, I hold games that were originally released eight years ago and given major overhauls less than two years ago to much higher visual standard than twenty-four year old RPGs. The condition of anti-aliasing in this game is subjectively quite poor, and objectively worse than it's immediate predecessor. That's the problem people have with it,
For me, this is still the biggest, most obvious issue with the AA. A great big, crooked, jagged line drawn across the middle of my screen when flying somewhere. Rotating to different angles helps but I shouldn't have to rotate my craft to make the picture look better. I keep being reminded of Elite 1984. Being nostalgic is one thing. But I'm not trying to be nostalgic.
I just launched game to check. I'm 100% certain I do not see "jugged orbital lines" now as it was before.
I use Linux / Proton / nvidia 520 driver.
Did you try to delete cached shaders ? I had cached after update 14 by nvidia and it was "old bad picture" as it was no update. Then I disabled it and picture went 2 times better immediately + more fps too.
Stop worrying if that don't bother you. The best thing that can happen to you is to understand the problem, see it everywhere in the game and let it ruin your fun.
Like Cypher say :
I doubt my fun can be ruined by anything....well, disconnects fighting thargs are annoying a bit, so had to move on to black for couple months while it settled.
But digging such cases helps to understand how things work and avoid / workaround real bugs, like to 3 fps drops.
AFAIK they only appear with Radeon cards.
Nope, it's not limited to a specific hardware set-up.
The issue https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/32228 has 16 pages of feedback / comments from players using a broad spectrum of GPUs. The original report was filed for a RTX 2080 Super. Comments report it for 3060ti, 3070, 3080ti and a variety of other GPUs.
I still think it is something about monitors. I had broken orbits when Ody came initially for couple months on rtx 2060 and 1920 x 1080 monitor. Then it was gone. Now I have laptop with rtx 3050 and monitor 1920 x 1080 15 inches (I think) connected to intel gpu (i.e. 2 gpus) and orbits are ok, stations are ok outside. I just passed by (fps drops till 20 though on heavy shadows while it rotates, but view is just beautiful). No jagged lines as I imagine it. However If I set scale different then 1x, then I can't even read texts. But I just use 1x.
Upd. Ok, I put my face into monitor. Like 5 cms. Yes I see jugged orbits at this scale
but hell, if I put even close I would see different pixels...Like i saw it on old "big" TVs, just come close to 1cm and see all jugged or use lense and loot at different RGB.
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Camera from my point of view, about 20 cms less (closer to monitor, hands in front of me holding phone):
Source: https://i.imgur.com/jbvpz0z.jpg
Source: https://i.imgur.com/jbvpz0z.jpg
It is an innovative way to reduce the aliasing in ED!
It's funny, a person who can't normally take a screenshot of the game (and this can be done by means of Windows, steam or geforce experiences), says that everything is fine with him and there are no problems with smoothing, you just need to sit away, yeah.