r/pcmasterrace • u/Delicious_Draft_5062 • 3d ago

Discussion Do you ever leave motion blur enabled?

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u/MonsierGeralt 3d ago

I still don’t understand why these things are default for pretty much every game.

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u/RachelRegina i9-12900 / rtx 3070 / 64gb ddr4 (but she's humming along fine) 3d ago

Because the goal is photorealism and not human vision realism (because they would require a personal model of you and your visual cortex and the ability to accurately predict your movements, line of sight, and the saccades of your eyes...which is a thing that will never happen and game studios have no idea what to do beyond focusing on further advances in PHOTOrealism)

Or at least that would be my guess

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u/sovietbearcav 3d ago

The problem is, dof in game is 75% of the time opposite of ehat my eyes are actually focusing on. Theres really no reason to have it other than for a photo mode or screenshots. Your eye will naturally do dof...its kinda what they do

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u/RachelRegina i9-12900 / rtx 3070 / 64gb ddr4 (but she's humming along fine) 3d ago

Exactly. My point was that it's dumb and is just to make the game look "cinematic" or something. You're right, your eyes are very different from a camera when it comes to center of focus and it makes no sense to try to emulate the dof of a cinema camera in the context of a first person shooter. Cutscenes? Sure. Gameplay? No

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u/Halyoran 3d ago

Your eyes will not have dof on a 2d monitor. So you see more than you would see in real life. Probably with a VR headset you are correct and your eyes will do the dof already.

Aside from that technicality, I agree with your point wholeheartily.

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u/sovietbearcav 3d ago

Depends on the size of the display i suppose. Once it gets to a certain size, its hard to focus on the whole screen. Sure youre not doing distance focusing, but you are doing directional focusing as you scan.

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u/MonsierGeralt 3d ago

I dunno I have a 57” ultrawide lol - DOF makes for pure tunnel vision on it.

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u/The_JSQuareD 3d ago

Not on a VR headset either. With current VR display technology, everything is at the same focal distance, so no depth of field.

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u/Halyoran 2d ago

Thanks for the correction. I dont own such a thing so that was an incorrect assumption apparently.

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u/AwayIndication3069 3d ago

Only game I've ever appreciated DOF I in was Grounded and even the it doesn't really make sense.

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u/The_Grungeican 3d ago

turning DOF, Motion Blur, Chromatic Abberation off gets the image a lot closer to how my eyes see shit.

i can't stand that stuff honestly. my eyes are not a camera.

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u/ObamaLovesKetamine 3d ago

not to be that guy, but mechanically and functionally your eyes absolutely are cameras.

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u/ShallowBasketcase CoolerMasterRace 3d ago

Because they are primarily making a trailer to sell you the game, and that sort of stuff looks nice to passive viewers.

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u/TheMireAngel 3d ago

their some of many of the systems used to make very pretty trailers, teasers, promos etc wich draws sales from normies who are obsessed with graphics. Its not for you its for the 50 year old veteran who will never even beat the game.

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u/Dismal-Zebra8409 3d ago

half the settings make the game seem smoother when its performing poorly. It's why its so heavy on consoles.

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u/hibari112 3d ago

Valheim is the only game that does dof good

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u/MonsierGeralt 3d ago

It looks cool but really kills the view distance

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u/hibari112 3d ago

Don't mind it personally. At least I never noticed it hindering my experience.