Please 343. If you’re out there. Allow disabling of TSAA for us PC Players. You must see the effect this has on this otherwise gorgeous game. The anti aliasing adds this ever so subtle smudge across so many assets introducing a jarring shift when you stands still and see the potential of what the game can truly look like on PC.
Heck, allowing disabling of TSAA would also be a step forward toward fixing the crap performance on PC in general. I keep coming back because the gameplay is so damn good, but at the same time feel a sense of heartbreak that all this love is poured in from the developers and someone made the decision to force TSAA. Intentionally making the game look worse. I’m sure this person is the talk of many water cooler conversations and Friday happy hour Zoom meetings. “Man, can’t believe Rob forced TSAA on the fans like that.”
I’ve been good this year so if Santa could bring me the option to disable TSAA I’ll promise to purchase a few cosmetics to tip the devs.
It’s a type of anti aliasing: Temporal anti-aliasing (TSAA) is the worst implementation of Anti Aliasing and is typically the lowest option you have in Video settings for PC games in regards to AA. The next step back would be to shut it off completely. TSAA will try to smooth the image to reduce jaggies and the implementation can look somewhat different from game to game, but Halo Infinite looks particularly bad with it on.
It’s a very easy fix to allow disabling it but someone at 343 must think it will ruin artistic integrity or something? That’s the only thing I can think of as to why you would force it on a player base.
TSAA also increases how much your GPU is working so it would be a quick-win for the product team toward handling the “Fix PC Performance” feature request that I’m sure has an ever increasing list of insights. One step closer to my 3080ti not struggling to keep 90 FPS with Low shadows, Low lighting, etc…
In general I always shut off AA because number 1, I like the subtle jaggy look. Must be some sort of nostalgia left over from my PS1 days. Number 2, it gives a very sharp image.
Also for clarity I have Minimum Frame Rate “Off” and Blue at 0%. My TSAA is at “High” to try and achieve the better, sharper implementation. But AA and “Sharp” don’t often go well together as the whole point is to smooth out edges.
P.S: I did file this to Halo Support’s ticketing system.
