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Comment by SirMaster

14 days ago

I really miss MSAA. I still dislike DLSS personally. I realize many people seem to like it, but it just does not look that good to me. Or as good as things used to look or I believe could look.

Sure it's better than TAA, but come on, this can't be the ultimate end for gaming graphics... At least I hope it isn't.

The problem with MSAA is that it only handles aliasing from geometry edges. It's pretty much useless against shader aliasing, which became a massive problem after normal mapping and HDR lighting became standard in the PS3 era.

  • This is only a problem if you naively undersample the normal maps in your fragment shader. No AA algorithm can can generate a high quality result from undersampled lighting calculations.

    For normal maps specifically, you can preserve lost information from downsampled normal maps as roughness: https://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/2015/Alex_Vlachos_...

    MSAA also doesn't require you to have only one color sample for each pixel but this can be varied per draw call (at least for desktop GPUs) - effectively allowing you to supersample some objects when needed.

Same here. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, but it just never feels and looks as good as lower quality at full resolution.

  • DLSS even in Balanced mode is annoying when the camera laterally moves, I start seeing all kinds of artifacts. Strangely enough I prefer FSR 2.0 even though there’s slightly less overall detail.