Backstory (optional read):
Hi, I would like to disable TAA, but unfortunately I have not been able to find a solution ever since this was forced on all players in 2018.
Unfortunately, due to my ignorance on the topic at the time; I thought my display was faulty and ended up trying to get a new one.. you can image my surprise when this did nothing to remove the TAA ghosting. This could've been easily avoided if the ability to disable it like in Hitman 2016 was possible, but as it stands-- it isn't even disclosed that TAA is forced on
every user.
It is worth noting that I am most definitely not the only person who has been faced with this issue. Evidence of this can be found in
this Reddit comment.
TAA is a great solution for slow moving and movie-like experiences as it can get rid of the stair-stepping effect caused by native low resolution rendering.
The problem arises when users who would ideally have a much better experience without TAA are forced to use it, this can be a user with low end hardware who would rather have increased visual fidelity instead of being forced to use TAA, or a user with a high resolution display (for example: a 1440p or 2160p (4K) display) wanting to boost their visual fidelity by disabling TAA, especially as at such high resolutions, all you get are downsides from TAA (such as lower performance, blurry visuals and TAA ghosting).
Another problem with the current TAA solution is that it introduces haloing around close and moving objects, and not just TAA ghosting. What is less obvious is the blurred visuals TAA creates when applied. Examples of such will be listed below.
Why Am I Making This Post?:
I am making this post because no one has ever posted anything meaningful about the TAA problem Hitman 3 has faced since the release of Hitman 2 back in 2018 (it is now 2023). Of course, there have been numerous posts about it, but none have ever brought light to the problems in question.
Quite recently, I made two posts about this highlighting the problem requesting the ability to turn TAA off, these have been the first ever posts to ever bring light to the problem at any meaningful scale.
If you would like to have a look at the posts in question, the links can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/11y1lub/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/12cbpoa/
Here, I will showcase the aforementioned problems with TAA discussed:
- This is just from walking/running:
- This is just from turning the camera:
- The haloing around objects:
- God rays negatively effected by TAA:
I really do think there should be an option for players to disable it, as this is a problem that effects every player, even if they do not notice it. But unfortunately, this is not possible. I have requested this in the past with little real response, and again with a similar response, but this time referring me to this forum.
I would've done this sooner but I was not aware that my 2017 account was wiped in 2020/2021, so here I am now on a new account.
I want to know if there is a way to turn TAA (temporal anti-aliasing) off, the cool pictures above highlight the major problems with it.
It should be noted that this post isn't a petition to remove TAA completely - rather, this is a call to find a solution to disable it.
TAA has a place, it just shouldn't be forced no matter the circumstance, and currently, it has been forced for 5 years with no solution in sight (only a faux registry setting that does nothing).
Thanks in advance,
Knew.
