Image is too sharp on new GPU

[Signette]

This may seem like a weird topic, but I'm sure I'm not crazy and not just seeing things.

 

Previously I had Nvidia GTX 560, it fried and I got myself GTX 970 instead. Basically only thing I have changed was GPU and fresh install of new drivers (obviously). So same screen - same resolution. And now to the issue:

On GTX 970 image quality became noticeably sharper than before, which may seem like a good thing, but it's not. Previously on old GPU when I used "cheap" anti-aliasing like FXAA it helped a ton and all jaggies were mostly gone. Now FXAA smooths to some extent but I still see lots of jaggies, and to eliminate them, I have to turn on power hungry AA like MSAA, but even at x8 image is still not perfectly smooth. Because of this FPS gets hit by ~40 frames down or more, so it practically kills performance.

 

I have tried many things in Control Panel, nothing helped. I'm not new to system hardware/software configuration, but I seriously have no idea how to fix that. Google doesn't have anything on this. Any ideas and suggestion are welcome, maybe I'm missing something...

[samadchaz]

there might be an option to reduce the sharpness from the monitor

[Signette]

I tried that, but it's different kind of sharpness I'm trying to suppress now, like anti-aliasing went in negative values. Funny, because as I mentioned, I use same monitor and settings, weird stuff here...

[goranpaa]

Have you updated your videocard driver recently? And did a clean install using a program like Display Driver Uninstaller? This, to get rid of any trace of the old driver.

Edited August 22, 2016 by goranpaa

[samadchaz]

I tried that, but it's different kind of sharpness I'm trying to suppress now, like anti-aliasing went in negative values. Funny, because as I mentioned, I use same monitor and settings, weird stuff here...

There are two type of AA

1- make it sharp(MSAA,CSAA)

2- make it blur(FXAA.SMAA)

 

You should go for the second one and disable any other

also dont try SSAA cause it will eat-up your gpu

[homad1943]

I like new 10th series of GPU

[Dazaster]

By "Control Panel", I presume you mean Nvidia's CP?

Have you been using DSR, and it's turned off when you installed the new driver? Have you set NCP to override any game settings?

Are you using the HD connection or the dvi?

[Signette]

I always do clean install using Display Driver Uninstaller or doing it manually if system isn't too cluttered. I did update driver just to see if something changes, still the same visuals. I guess it's how new GPUs designed to display, not sure but can't think of anything else...

 

I know about anti-aliasing methods and how they should look, but the wierd thing is that, for example: on my old GPU (560GTX) FXAA gave me decent enough AA, so I didn't really notice many jaggies in Rome II Total War game, on new GPU FXAA is clearly not enough, but my monitor, resolution and overall graphic settings are absolutely the same as on previous system.

 

On AA method, actually CSAA and MSAA gives me way better smoothing and least jaggies but eats alot of hardware power, when FXAA/SMAA gives very minimal effect. This way it works for both in-game settings, forced through Nvidia Control Panel and tools like ReShade, SweetFX, ENB or other injectors. But as I mentioned already, I never needed anything more than FXAA on previous card, which is wierd...

 

And no, I don't use DSR, I don't need it, my res is fine and I don't need "fake" 4k, plus not even half powerful system for this. Yes, I override some NCP settings in some games, which I do for ages, tried on and off tho, doesn't fix my issue. Using HDMI connection, like previously.