In case anyone didn't know, I just thought I'd inform any Nvidia card owners of Nvidia's latest update.

Following the 300 series drivers, the Nvidia Control Panel now offers forced FXAA as an option. It poses minimum performance loss and is highly optimised for Nvidia hardware.

Just go to your Desktop.
Right click. In the context menu, select 'NVIDIA Control Panel'.
In the Nvidia Control Panel, select 'Manage 3D settings'.

Now, if you trust Nvidia's database of supported programs to ensure that you have no issues with FXAA in programs which don't like it/don't support it, go to the 'Global Settings' tab.

If you don't trust Nvidia, select the 'Program Settings' tab.
Then manually select the program you want to apply to FXAA to. If your program isn't in the preset list, then click 'Add' and browse for the program's exe in it's installation folder.

Then select the drop down menu, under the Setting column, next to 'Antialiasing - FXAA'.
Select On.

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I've found this method is much more performance friendly than OS's implementation or any other injector, as it is hardware based and optimised by Nvidia. I have found no performance loss whatsoever, even on games which are already fairly laggy.
I've found it works on most games as well as Halo, including old games such as Neverwinter Nights, Fable, and fairly modern games such as Dungeon Defenders, Portal 2, The Saboteur, and Sanctum.

It surprised me that it worked with Dungeon Defenders, a cel-shaded game, in which all other antialiasing solutions would ruin the cel-shading. A very pleasant surprise.

It should also work with very old games such as Baldur's Gate. I don't have the disc at the moment, but upon attempting to start Baldur's Gate, I at least got to the disc warning screen without any issues.

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Edited by Jaz on Aug 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM

Baldur's gate ftw !

I didn't get it lol, as far as I remember, antialias prevents halo from working

Ive had this for ages. It works nice

Not sure. :/ I don't have an AMD card and never plan on getting one.

But just to be curious, what is MAA? Unless you misspelled and meant MSAA?

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Edited by Jaz on Aug 12, 2012 at 09:31 PM

So basically what FXAA can do, but less optimised and exclusive to Radeon cards?

(FXAA, if AMD gives the option, or if games give the option in their menus, can be used by both Nvidia cards AND AMD cards)

Nope. FXAA Injector's very laggy and can cause games to crash sometimes.
But Nvidia's Control Panel implementation is very well optimised and works with any game or program without any issues at all, least of all crashes.