What effect is this?

[Bulletooth]

i've been toying around with Crysis mods real lifesis and natural mod. the game looks amazing with them, but i have this weird glitch (effect?) where some objects (mostly weapons and eyeballs) have a white outline. wouldn't bother me much, but it can be seen from pretty far. upclose screens:

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/323/crysis64201103290441402.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9343/crysis64201103290444006.jpg

anyone have any idea what effect is it and how can i disable it?

[MiamiACR]

If I'm not mistaken it's a setting in the Nvidia control panel that causes this. Open it up and go to the Manage 3D settings tab, Global settings, and then turn off "Antialising- Transparency" Try it and get back to me if it worked.

[Bulletooth]

i'm an AMD user, and yes i've tried turning the forced AA off. didn't help :/

i'm pretty sure it has to do with the mods, because it didn't occur in the vanilla version. and these mods don't add anything - they just change stuff in cfg files, so it must be a triggered effect

[MiamiACR]

Yeah I'd say that's it then, sucks because those mods look really good but have that nasty side effect.

[Skcus_Rafez]

Have you tried turning AA on?

[Bulletooth]

Yeah I'd say that's it then, sucks because those mods look really good but have that nasty side effect.
haven't seen that in the mod videos. probably was a bad idea to combine the two :/

Have you tried turning AA on?
it's on, 8x. there are no pixels to be seen on the edges, except these white outlines. and as i said, they only appear on the eyes and the weapon i'm holding for some reason :/

[Aemony]

i'm an AMD user, and yes i've tried turning the forced AA off. didn't help :/

i'm pretty sure it has to do with the mods, because it didn't occur in the vanilla version. and these mods don't add anything - they just change stuff in cfg files, so it must be a triggered effect

Disable ATI's Catalyst A.I. as this seems like a special occasion in which it could kick in and result in something like this.

TweakGuides.com's description of the feature:
Catalyst A.I: Catalyst A.I. allows users to determine the level of 'optimizations' the drivers enable in graphics applications. These optimizations are graphics 'short cuts' which the Catalyst A.I. calculates to attempt to improve the performance of 3D games without any noticeable reduction in image quality. In the past there has been a great deal of controversy about 'hidden optimizations', where both Nvidia and ATI were accused of cutting corners, reducing image quality in subtle ways by reducing image precision for example, simply to get higher scores in synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark. In response to this, both ATI and Nvidia have made the process transparent to a great extent. You can select whether you want to enable or disable Catalyst A.I. for a further potential performance boost in return for possibly a slight reduction in image quality in some cases. If Catalyst AI is enabled, you can also choose the aggressiveness of such optimizations, either Standard or Advanced on the slider. The Advanced setting ensures maximum performance, and usually results in no problems or any noticeable image quality reduction. If on the other hand you want to always ensure the highest possible image quality at all costs, disable Catalyst A.I. (tick the 'Disable Catalyst A.I.' box). I recommend leaving Catalyst A.I enabled unless you experience problems. ATI have made it clear that many application-specific optimizations for recent games such as Oblivion are dependent on Catalyst AI being enabled.

[Bulletooth]

Disable ATI's Catalyst A.I. as this seems like a special occasion in which it could kick in and result in something like this.

TweakGuides.com's description of the feature:

thx for the advice, but the new CCC (http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8259/ccctz.jpg) only allows to put the catalyst ai from 'quality' to 'performance', and that didn't help :(