Can AI Sharpening actually fix horrific image aliasing?
Trying to fight this kind of visual tearing just by cranking the resolution would have absolutely nuked my frame rate. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced Image Sharpening on, and played around with the sharpening sliders in the game's Director Mode. While monitoring a controller load peak of 0.32s - 0.47s, I managed to recover 10 - 21 pixels of edge blur, and the image instantly snapped into focus. The tradeoff is the 'halo' effect—overdoing the sharpening creates these weird white outlines, especially around shadows. After three comparative runs, I found the sweet spot at 30% strength, which kept me steady at 51fps - 66fps. It doesn't fundamentally kill the aliasing at the engine level, but it tricks your eyes into seeing a much cleaner image, and the world stopped looking like a low-res mosaic.