Minimizing blur while reducing visual artifacts

Red Dead Redemption 270 views4 favorites1 min readby Jace "Teh Wallet" BassUpdated 16 MayView on Steam ↗

Introduction

RDR2 has a very blurry TAA implementation but disabling TAA leaves you with many visual artifacts like mostly transparent trees, thin objects having striped shadows and boiling in dark places. I compiled this list of setting to change in order to reduce these artifacts.

Settings

Far Shadow Quality: Low

Fixes striped shadows with TAA disabled

TAA: Off

Fixes blur

MSAA: 2x/4x/8x

Setting MSAA to any value that isn't "Off" fixes the mostly transparent trees but higher values come with a huge performance cost.

Advanced Settings:

Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: On

Fixes boiling with TAA disabled

Comparison

Before:

After:

I kind of chose a bad spot for the comparison but I'm not doing it again.

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