Temporal anti-aliasing: a blessing or a curse? (www.eurogamer.net)

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TAA is a crucial tool for developers - but is the impact to image quality too great?

For good or bad, temporal anti-aliasing - or TAA - has become a defining element of image quality in today's games, but is it a blessing, a curse, or both? Whichever way you slice it, it's here to stay, so what is it, why do so many games use it and what's with all the blur? At one point, TAA did not exist at all, so what methods of anti-aliasing were used and why aren't they used any more?

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[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

I can't stand aliasing.

[-] LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Yeah I’m anti aliasing

[-] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 8 months ago

You're just an aliasist.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago

I stick to FXAA because every other option for anti-aliasing seems to just make everything blurry or smudged.

[-] 9715698@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Really interesting video -- I honestly didn't realize SSAA worked by just downsampling a larger resolution. Love Alex's deep dives on technical topics on DF.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I've been turning off anti-alaising ever since it started being an option in games. It was never worth it in the days of pci and agp graphics cards. AA doesn't tank performance as much as it used to but I still turn it off hoping to squeeze some more performance out of my system.

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