by Graf Zahl » Tue Mar 26, 2019 6:25 am
Rachael wrote:This is technically already possible if you use "vid_setscale" (but this is an unsupported method and should never be used for such things - and if you attempt it, then you will see why I closed this suggestion).
The reason why the scale factor is limited to 2.0 is because at higher factors, the presentation drops pixels, thus completely eliminating the benefits of using super-sampling.
I found this out running 11520x7200 on a 1440x900 monitor. It looked very ugly and lagged like hell.
4x supersampling would have to be done with two scaling steps - first from 4x to 2x and then down to 1x - but the only hardware that's fast enough for this is some of the very latest, most expensive cards around. I believe in 4-5 years such an option makes sense because it looks indeed a lot better tham MSAA. But right now it's simply too slow for consumer grade hardware.
invictius wrote:
Why was the resolution changing system changed? I liked the old one far better.
It was changed because there was too much mess involved. To actually change the resolution of the screen it was not only necessary to change the desktop size (which is rude, to say the least) but also required taking down the entire renderer when done in mid-game. More than half of the video backend code was only there to handle this case and didn't even work right. So we decided to do the same as is the only possible way on non-Windows anyway: Use borderless fullscreen and scale in the postprocessing stage. This simplified the code a lot and removed some of the most problematic parts of the video code.
[quote="Rachael"]This is technically already possible if you use "vid_setscale" (but this is an unsupported method and should never be used for such things - and if you attempt it, then you will see why I closed this suggestion).
The reason why the scale factor is limited to 2.0 is because at higher factors, the presentation drops pixels, thus completely eliminating the benefits of using super-sampling.
I found this out running 11520x7200 on a 1440x900 monitor. It looked very ugly and lagged like hell.[/quote]
4x supersampling would have to be done with two scaling steps - first from 4x to 2x and then down to 1x - but the only hardware that's fast enough for this is some of the very latest, most expensive cards around. I believe in 4-5 years such an option makes sense because it looks indeed a lot better tham MSAA. But right now it's simply too slow for consumer grade hardware.
[quote="invictius"]
Why was the resolution changing system changed? I liked the old one far better.[/quote]
It was changed because there was too much mess involved. To actually change the resolution of the screen it was not only necessary to change the desktop size (which is rude, to say the least) but also required taking down the entire renderer when done in mid-game. More than half of the video backend code was only there to handle this case and didn't even work right. So we decided to do the same as is the only possible way on non-Windows anyway: Use borderless fullscreen and scale in the postprocessing stage. This simplified the code a lot and removed some of the most problematic parts of the video code.