For those complaining about fuzzy graphics and trouble separating units

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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Hello,

Me like the majority of us coming from AOE3 have trouble identifying units and such due to graphics changes. Change below will allow you return back to close to AOE3 sharpness by modifiying graphic cards settings as below. Screenshot is attached how this affects game view. You can see considerable change without taxing much of GPU like oversampling does.

no sharpen
no sharpen2560×1440 1.52 MB
nvCplUI_gbuIuu1LZE
nvCplUI_gbuIuu1LZE1682×999 76.9 KB
nvCplUI_PgorDX7i3c
nvCplUI_PgorDX7i3c1424×862 36.7 KB
shapen0_5
shapen0_52560×1440 1.83 MB
sharpen 1
sharpen 12560×1440 2.3 MB

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The fuzziness is caused by the temporal antialiasing (TAA) they added in the Definitive Edition. You can improve the image by turning off TAA with this mod or by applying sharpening through the Nvidia Control Panel as shown in this post or with the AMD Adrenalin program for people with AMD GPUs (see instructions here).

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