As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also as a person that grew up when game consoles could connect to the TV via an RF Switch, the image-damaging effects of Temporal Anti Alias smearing are extremely visible, and NOT a "miserable invisible miniscule artifact." They're massive on the screen. The particular examples shown in this video do not show it particularly well because it only focuses on raytracing, but the effects of TAA are still visible because turning on raytracing almost always forces on TAA, since the low resolution raytracing benefits from the smearing TAA causes.

Here is a video that goes into way better detail about this problem, watch it and see if you still feel the same.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Gamers massively overstate minor inconveniences. TAA smearing, upscaling artifacts, VA ghosting and blooming, ray tracing noise, all of that you get used to it on a day or two and never notice it again but leave it to the gamer to go on a crusade like their lives and the world are doomed because of it

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Different people also have different sensitivity to different types of artifacts. No doubt a degree of the complaints is overblown due to a big of tribal / mob mentality going on, but a few of the people complaining might just be more sensitive to it.

With TAA specifically there's probably also implementation differences going on, where someone has a bad experience with it once or twice and then generalizes that experience to all implementations of it.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

M8, yer old, the kids have better acuity so they notice it. Maybe they are right on this one.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, wanting better looking games that also perform better is a "crusade." Of course. How bigotted of me.