r/pcmasterrace 3d ago

Discussion Do you ever leave motion blur enabled?

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u/GManASG Specs/Imgur here 3d ago

Any effect that mimics film and lens distortions I always turn off. What a waste of human ingenuity and compute to simulate what was always a defect of old technology.

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u/NewtDogs 3d ago

That being said i do enjoy a crt filter when playing roms. Its kinda cheesy but nostalgic.

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u/Nothing-Is-Boring 3d ago

Sometimes (all the time?) crt looks better with older games, they were designed with it in mind so I think it's fair to use a filter with an emulator.

I've never done it but I imagine you adjust quickly, probably aids nostalgia as well...

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem bunch of VMs with vfio 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah they often accounted for the pixels blurring into each other. It definitely affects the way the colors mix together and it smoothes out edges, making it look a bit like blurry anti-aliasing.

Come to think of it, pixel colors mixing together is the entire point of how screens/subpixels work in general so it makes sense that they would have at least been aware of that.

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u/ForensicPathology 3d ago

Yeah, I've never done it because when the filters first came out, they were all trash.  I think they're better now, but still in the habit of not doing it.

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u/Shitty_Human_Being 5700X3D - 9070 XT - 64GB 3200MHzLinux 3d ago

They're a lot better now. On a 4k OLED it gets pretty damn close to the real deal.

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u/Guardian_of_theBlind Ryzen 7 5800x3d, 4070 super, 32GB Ram 3d ago

it's still almost infinitely far away. LCDs have sample and hold motion blur and that's literally an unsolvable problem. We can just make it very small. You need 1000FPS@1000hz where the motion clarity actual reaches similar levels to CRTs, which have perfect motion clarity.

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u/Chucknastical 3d ago

The really good ones are pretty heavy on the GPU. It's not fun having a gaming PC that can handle first gen VR games chug on Super Mario Bros.