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What’s the point of motion blur in modern games? It’s the one setting I seem to have to turn off manually in far too many games. What other settings to you change in most games? (piefed.social)
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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

CRT filters are just fake scanlines for nostalgia. Blurring the screen does not accurately recreate the way the games were meant to be viewed. This is because CRTs are analog and don't have discrete pixels at all, the color posphors can be partially lit, resulting in a better looking image. That just can't be recreated with a filter.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bad ones are yes, I addressed that at the end

The good ones make use of the higher resolution screens we have today to render the lower resolution images using the real pixels as subpixels to mimic the effect.

1080p is possibly not enough resolution to be convincing if that's what you last looked at; but at 4K, every 240i/480i console output pixel gets something like 8-16 real subpixels to work with

If you want 1 to 1 accuracy, yes you'll only get that with an actual CRT. But the modern high quality filters are much, much more than just fake scanlines, and can be pretty effective for the games that need them. You can usually choose the signal path to emulate, choose to use an aperture grille or different kinds of shadow mask, and often even deeper tweaks.

If you've not looked at them in a while and you've got appropriate hardware to run them well, have another look.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I last looked at a real CRT because it is my only screen 😂

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well fair play then! You're probably not gonna get much out of them then haha

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like it on Raccoin because it stylizes the game more than anything, and can give it a lower-res feel without making the UI elements painful.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ooh a roguelite I've not heard of

Thanks for the Christmas gift, I think I'll buy it

Edit: wait it's not out? wat

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not yet released but there have been several open demos. Not sure if the latest demo is still available today. It's really good though.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Okay wishlisted, seems like I missed the demo by 4 days unfortunately