(closed) Jagged edges, flickering in most games, Smoothness not applied

[Madlark]

SO it seems DSR doesn't work with some AA modes so I think that's the issue. DSR isn't perfect and depending on your monitor/rest of your config, you can get things like botched resolutions and improper use of AF. You may have to go into some of your games and reset the video settings to resolve whatever GeForce Experience messed up.

Alright, I uninstalled Xcom and Alien: Isolation, cleaned up Steam Cloud so there are no leftover .cfg files there or anything, and reinstalled the games. Unfortunately, all the issues remain.

try completely disabling DSR and see what happens. I always found it to look far worse than native res.

Tried that on the freshly-reinstalled games, and other than the additional jaggies caused by lower resolution, no change.

I did notice though, that while playing Alien Isolation on 1920x1080, using max in-game AA or turning the in-game AA off completely hardly has any noticeable effect at all. There are some very tiny improvements, but I wouldn't have noticed them at all if I wasn't looking. This doesn't seem normal either, does it? Please check the two videos below (switch to fullscreen+HD).

- no in-game or NCP AA

- no NCP AA, in-game SMAA

 

[EarthDog]

Maybe because its at 1x?

Are you sure its AAing what you think it is? Each mode does something different...

What other modes are there? Do those show a difference (and at like 4x+, not 1x)?

 

[biffzinker]

Maybe because its at 1x?

Are you sure its AAing what you think it is? Each mode does something different...

What other modes are there? Do those show a difference (and at like 4x+, not 1x)?

PCGamingWiki for Alien: Isolation has this listed for one of the key points.

The anti-aliasing that comes with the game is rather poor, but can be rectified.[3] See Anti-aliasing (AA).

Source: PCGamingWiki - Alien: Isolation

The game offers FXAA, SMAA T1X, SMAA T2X

 

[MrGenius]

But that would mean it really was like this before. And that can't possibly be true right? For that matter...if anything fixes any of these issues...then how were they not present before...without having fixed them somehow previously? Let me guess...someone hacked your system and messed with the gaming settings in some mysterious and difficult to understand way... just to make you crazy? Sound about right? Makes a lot of sense huh?

Unattainable levels of perfection. Pretty much the textbook definition of insanity. So when you never find the answer, because nothing you do works to "fix" it, you might want to consider that reality isn't going to change. And that what might need to change is you.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Ouch.

 

[Madlark]

But that would mean it really was like this before. And that can't possibly be true right? For that matter...if anything fixes any of these issues...then how were they not present before...without having fixed them somehow previously? Let me guess...someone hacked your system and messed with the gaming settings in some mysterious and difficult to understand way... just to make you crazy? Sound about right? Makes a lot of sense huh?

Unattainable levels of perfection. Pretty much the textbook definition of insanity. So when you never find the answer, because nothing you do works to "fix" it, you might want to consider that reality isn't going to change. And that what might need to change is you.

Oh wow. Here, trolly, have a cookie. Now shoo.

 

[MrGenius]

Being crazy is fine. It's when you bother other people with it that it becomes a problem. You have no proof that things were any different before. It's all in your head...literally! But you want it to be in our heads too. And if I refuse to allow that to happen then I'm a troll? Who's trolling who?

Anyway...good luck with that! I really hope you get it all figured out. Seriously.

 

[Madlark]

Being crazy is fine. It's when you bother other people with it that it becomes a problem. You have no proof that things were any different before. It's all in your head...literally! But you want it to be in our heads too. And if I refuse to allow that to happen then I'm a troll? Who's trolling who?
Anyway...good luck with that! I really hope you get it all figured out. Seriously.

Well, I guess you saved the day then. I doubt I'm going to get any more advice here after this kind of debunking. At least I learned that Geforce Experience was blocking NCP settings.

Good job.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Had some similar issues... What I did to fix it was...
I went into settings then recovery options
Then I RESET the PC...
Works good now.

 

[eidairaman1]

3 solutions

Contact Nvidia

Contact game makers

Take an Axe to the card and break it, replace with a better card.

 

[Madlark]

Had some similar issues... What I did to fix it was...
I went into settings then recovery options
Then I RESET the PC...
Works good now.

I sort of decided a while ago I'm going to do a clean Windows reinstall eventually, once I'm done with my current sound projects, might as well try a reset before that.

Thank you for your time and help everyone (and a personal "f**** you" to Mr. Bitemyshinymetalass over there), thread closed.

 

[jboydgolfer]

i hope you get it worked out.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

You can save your files and RESET the PC...
You just have to reinstall the programs you want... It can be annoying to move your save files for some programs but you don't have to lose anything.

 

[DRDNA]

I sort of decided a while ago I'm going to do a clean Windows reinstall eventually, once I'm done with my current sound projects, might as well try a reset before that.

thread closed.

Hey man welcome to TPU, Looks like a frustrating issue! I hope you get it sorted. I think A OS refresh will be the cure. You did about every thing else already.