03-16-2016, 12:28 PM
Quote:MSAA + SG:AA does a good enough job especially for consumer space.
I never use SGAA so I decided to try it out and quickly recalled why I don't use it- it sucks, badly. At best it has a marginal benefit to aliasing issues while adding blur to the entire screen- garbage.
Quote:and I've been around for quite a while
I meant on the tech forums. I was around when Anand was a high school kid on GeoCities.
Quote:I'd almost compare it to voodoo 1/2 rendering where everything got smoothed to hell (the voodoo "vaseline screen" effect).
Wow- that's mip mapping, and you are absolutely right, it did blur the hell out of everything. Want to know the funny thing? WE STILL DO THAT. You don't notice it as much because the resolution is so much higher.
Quote:If the dot pitch is so high that you can't resolve each pixel with your eye then the monitor is worthless in my opinion.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Why don't you game at 640x480? You can use FAR higher levels of AA then the resolution you do game at. You can clearly make out each pixel, much easier than @1080p.
Quote:You haven't really got a 4K display if you can't resolve all of the pixels that make it up. You have something like a 2K display instead.
You can't see all of the light that is on the spectrum, so why not just buy a black & white CRT, fuck 640x480, you can get B&W 240i!
Quote:If you have a large 4K monitor/TV and if you have the GPU power to push 4K at the same sorts of IQ levels you would push 1080p with then sure, it is very nice and desirable.
I can push 95% of the games I own at 4K, none of them anyone is currently benching. The amazing thing about 4K is it downsamples to 1080p *without scaling the pixels*- where 2K looks like junk if you have to back down the resolution.
Quote:If you have to resort to no AA and rely on a tiny monitor to provide AA through blur then you are better off sticking with 2K (1440p/1600p) and enjoying real AA and better IQ.
AA exists because we don't have high enough resolution. 4K doesn't quite get us there anyway- 8K is actually still too low(although it is knocking on the door) at 30" screen size. For the record, 1080p is 2Mpixels, 8K is 32Mpixels. 4K has four times the visual information that 1080p has, AA is a cheap hack to cover up the lack of visual information. It is the only reason it exists.