It feels weird to even try to be nice about it and bargain.

This is you being nice?

The issues with TAA are so widely known, I’m surprised you can be ignorant of them. People in the know generally acknowledge it, but consider it worth the downsides for efficient AA. 99% of the time the effects are much less severe than what I posted, as I had to put in effort to find a moment to illustrate what was happening to diagnose it, but once you see it you can’t unsee it.

Essentially it’s like if I was talking about screen tearing, and you were arguing that screen tearing didn’t exist because “hundred of millions of people” weren’t experiencing it. Most people don’t even notice the screen tearing until you tell them it’s happening. The TAA blurring is even harder to spot. Also, people ARE experiencing the blurring, which is why enough people talk about it to annoy you. They also have documented evidence of the exact same thing I’m talking about, if you actually cared to look.

To be honest I’m not convinced you’re here in good faith and not to troll me, so I’m going to block you and move on. If you actually are curious, google “what are the issues with TAA” and plenty of people will have clips just like mine taken with capture software with their specs and settings listed.

Aaaand there we go. Subreddit it is.

If you had bothered to actually read my post you would realize that I found the sub after the fact.

FWIW, it’s hard to tell from gifs, but that amount of ghosting and frame-blending is neither TAA nor a normal thing that is happening on everybody’s computers without them noticing.

This is both reproducible and repeatable. I can reliably make it happen in several games, and it goes away completely when I turn off TAA in all cases. It has done this on all 3 of my previous computers, and it happened on two of my friend’s (who insisted it did not) computers when checked. I’m not running any custom post processing. All of our cards were Nvidia, so it’s possibly an Nvidia only thing, but even then the point stands.

I’m much more inclined to believe the effect I’ve done my due diligence to investigate is real, and that it’s simply too mild in most cases for people to notice, than believe some rude stranger with an uninformed “nu uh” and nothing else.

If you put some of that effort you put into sounding right into actually being right, you can find many clips of the same effect on youtube.

If you are suggesting that I got this position from listening to an influencer, I’m afraid not. I earned this opinion through my own efforts.

I had three computers in a row experience horrible shadow blurring and nothing seemed to fix it. I spent maybe 100 hours meticulously troubleshooting what the hell was wrong before asking a computer savvy friend to come over and take a look, and he was just like “Oh, that’s just TAA, everyone’s computer looks like that.” And lo and behold, if you turn anti-aliasing off, it disappears.

A couple of examples I took while troubleshooting: https://imgur.com/a/cqdgIRq https://imgur.com/a/x6mTKx0

It turns out everyone sees the same thing in almost every game, but until you notice it your brain just filters it out. In many modern games they don’t even give you the option to turn it off. I would have started a hate movement myself, but found out a r/fucktaa community already existed. No lemmy equivalent yet, I believe.

The real point where this argument falls apart is that modern AAA games almost exclusively use TAA, which ruins graphics. I’m so sick of shadows blurring and everything looking terrible and people saying it’s next level.