Hi guys I am on a 1080p ultrawide monitor and have everything in the video settings cranked up to full. Have just got my brand new 3090 and want to know what I can do to boost the visual quality further? Is there any in game supersampling or should I try something external to AMS2? Cheers
Get a 1440p ultrawide or super ultrawide, that would be one way to increase visual quality for sure but obviously at a cost. I assume everything is cranked up in the nVidia control panel such as texture filter quality etc?
You can set super sampling in performance. You need to have msaa set to low or off and use smaa. I've found that smaa ultra + SS gives me less shimmer on things like the trailing edge of rear wings at night. You should be able to crank it quite high given how well ampere scales with resolution. But beyond a certain point SS will stop making a visible difference so don't max it out just for the sake of it. Other than that I haven't really looked into post processing, not sure if reshade is working with AMS 2 or if there are any ini edits floating around. Although I guess you have some reshade features built into the driver/geforce experience now, but they only really let you play with sharpening and tone. Overall I think with everything set to high/ultra the engine is beautiful, for me the thing that will make the biggest difference to visuals going forward are updates to car models and improved shaders. In some certain lighting conditions the cars look great, but at times the paint seems unrealistically flat and almost cartoonish. texture filter quality in nvidia control panel is a dx9 feature, you do not need to change it.
A new monitor will be some time down the track but looking for a fix till then. Does the NV control panel complement in game settings or override any?
Thanks for the heads up, I might have a play with smaa and ss, that may be enough for me. Never really understood what the difference was between all of them in game.
I expected that to be the case after buying a 3090, was just gauging whether you're a millionaire or not Seriously though, I'm not sure whether you'll see a noticeable difference in the NV control panel settings. Some settings can override and others such as texture filtering will compliment the in-game settings.
They're just different methods of cleaning up edges, you don't really need to understand. Just find the combination that gives you the best image quality for the lowest fps cost. Straight super sampling will be the most costly out of the lot, but honestly its a non issue for your gpu. I don't think your going to find much if any benefit to image quality in the nvidia control panel, really the settings there are legacy options and more about optimizing for perfomance. Which again because you have a 3090 is not nescessary. Your best bet is to google "PC2 graphics settings" or something to that effect as what worked for it should be applicable to AMS 2 also.
Maybe DSR was an idea? I have been experimenting with DSR where the picture is rendrered with 2x or 4x higher resolution and then downscaled to screen resolution. The picture quality looked great but my CPU/GPU is to weak to be used with reasonable fps when the game is running.
Definitely not a millionaire, would be nice, lol. Have just dropped almost 4500aud in last few weeks on 5950x and 3090 though. Will take a while for bank account to recover, lol. Will check the texture filtering, cheers.
Okay, that is good to know about PC2, will check that out. I had a go at smaa ultra and SS high and ultra and had settled on high, then just capped fps at 72. An odd drop here and there not sure why, seemed a bit random. With the SS do you know what the low, medium, high and ultra mean with regards to image clarity, for example is high or ultra equivalent to 4k?
Have used it before on other titles and noticed how it shrunk the menus HUDs etc. In rf2 particularly, not sure if that has changed, have you tried it in ams 2?
I prefer MSAA over SS and SMAA but it is a personal thing. Only issue is the flickering shadows and night time shimmer, running with heavy clouds fixes the shadows though.
@F1Aussie this wikipedia page explains what SS is doing quite nicely. First section will tell you all you need to know. Supersampling | Wikiwand TLDR it renders the scene at a higher res and then downsamples it to give you a less aliased image. What resolution scale the settings ingame equates to? No idea, it'll be some multiplier of your base resolution so something like off = 1 low = 1.2 med = 1.4 etc. Maybe if you use afterburner/riva to output the resolution it'll give you the super sampled res, have never tried this though.
OK it wasnt obvious that it actually was AMS2 + DSR I was talking about - but it was. The size of the menus doesnt change (at least as I could see it). Only the Steam fps counter The only thing that really annoyed me was the slooow mouse crawling. And as said the low fps on my system. ByTheWay: Because its so easy to set up in the graphic driver you can test it out in 15 min without changing any of your other settings.
