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Step 1. Turn on ray tracing

Step 2. Check some forum or protondb and discover that the ray tracing/DX12 is garbage and gets like 10 frames

Step 3. Switch back to DX11, disable ray tracing

Step 4. Play the game

Out of all of these, motion blur is the worst, but second to that is Temporal Anti Aliasing. No, I don't need my game to look blurry with every trailing edge leaving a smear.

Has the person who invented the depth of field effect for a video game ever even PLAYED a game before?

motion blur is essential for a proper feeling of speed.

most games don't need a proper feeling of speed.

Now... in fairness...

Chromatic abberation and lense flares, whether you do or don't appreciate how they look (imo they arguably make sense in say CP77 as you have robot eyes)...

... they at least usually don't nuke your performance.

Motion blur, DoF and ray tracing almost always do.

Hairworks? Seems to be a complete roll of the dice between the specific game and your hardware.

Taps temple Auto disable ray tracing if your gpu is too old to support it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I don't understand who decided that introducing the downfalls of film and camera made sense for mimicking the accuracy and realism of the human eye

If only I could just turn off the chromatic aberration in my eyeglasses.

I’d add Denuvo to that list. Easily a 10-20% impact.

Depth of field and chromatic aberration are pretty cool if done right.

Depth of field is a really important framing tool for photography and film. The same applies to games in that sense. If you have cinematics/cutscenes in your games, they prob utilize depth of field in some sense. Action and dialogue scenes usually emphasize the characters, in which a narrow depth of field can be used to put focus towards just the characters. Meanwhile things like discovering a new region puts emphasis on the landscape, meaning they can use a large depth of field (no background blur essentially)

Chromatic aberration is cool if done right. It makes a little bit of an out of place feel to things, which makes sense in certain games and not so much in others. Signalis and dredge are a few games which chromatic aberration adds to the artstyle imo. Though obviously if it hurts your eyes then it still plays just as fine without it on.

And film grain. Get that fake static out of here

These settings can be good, but are often overdone. See bloom in the late 2000s/early 2010s.

I don't mind a bit of lens flare, and I like depth of field in dialog interactions. But motion blur and chromatic aberration can fuck right off.

Don't forget TAA!

Shadows: Off
Polygons: Low
Idle Animation: Off
Draw distance: Low
Billboards instead of models for scenery items: On

Hating on hair quality is a new one for me. I can understand turning off Ray Tracing if you can have a low-end GPU, but hair quality? It's been at least a decade since I've last heard people complaining that their GPU couldn't handle Hairworks. Does any game even still use it?

PS3-> everything is sepia filtered and bloomed until nearly unplayable.

I will say that a well executed motion blur is just a chef's kiss type deal, but it's hard to get right and easy to fuck up

But what about Bloom?

I always turn that shit off. Especially bad when it's a first-person game, as if your eyes were a camera.