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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Am I alone and being firmly against upscaling, never tried it, and everything is played or native resolution only? There have been games that only used 20% of GPU so I doubled game reaultion, but never upscaling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For some games I'm happy to turn it on as it drops power/temps and provides virtually identical output (as far as i can tell anyway) to native, but my fans don't need to go into overdrive mode.

I may even put on frame gen too if I just want to bump a stable-ish 80-90fps to stable 120fps, and again drops power and temps slightly. That sometimes does cause smearing but for the most part I don't notice enough to be annoyed. Without them I would probably be running with more power draw and higher temps, and possibly still not even hitting lower resolutions at 120, some games as you say though can hit 120 no problem even without and the gpu won't be stressed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

want to bump a stable-ish 80-90fps to stable 120fps, and again drops power and temps slightly. That sometimes does cause smearing but for the most part I don't notice enough to be annoyed.

So why do you want high fps? The issue with low fps is, that it causes smearing.

I don't notice smearing much and run my games/display at 30 fps.

And then there are games with motion blur effect, silly, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a personal preference but I would take occasional smearing over janky frame rate, I don't know why but if you are not a solid 60,90,120 it just feels really like there is a stutter every second or two even though it should be fine if it's above 60fps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the point; LCD/LED don't stutter but smear. It's some optical effect, because LCD don't "refresh" but always have the static image until next frame, unlike CRT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first priority is picture quality. Play on max/ultra everything but disable upscaling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

In some games it's super obvious that it's doing upscaling and looks awful, some games with without upscaling look awful (TAA), it's odd that in some cases tools like Dlss can look better than native TAA.

For the most part though it feels like the FLAC vs Opus or whatever, most people can't notice difference and don't care enough about it, but some people can tell the difference and want the best, I don't think either are wrong it's just down to how much you notice/can tolerate before it's annoying.

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