I'll be completely honest, that's probably the coldest take someone can make about recent tech that I've seen, and it's being presented as a hot take.

Virtually everyone prefers native, almost aggressively so. That being said, I think there's important nuance that's missing in most talks about upscaling. In my testing, my experience of blurring and smearing with upscaling/frame gen seems to be hugely dependent on pixel density. If you get a really dense screen, then upscaling, in my experience at least, becomes virtually undetectable even at 1080p.

I don't play a lot of AAA games, but ngl I'm quite happy gaming at 1080p on my 27" monitors.

I get way better framerates, and it still looks plenty good with maxed out graphics, as long as I'm not sticking my face right up against the screen.

I still play in 1080. I believe monitors shouldn't cost as much as my build. (Yes I'm exaggerating for comedic effect).

Friendly tip: For singleplayer games, you can always disable the game's built in AA solution and use reshade for AA instead. If you have extra GPU power you can also use reshade to add all sorts of other graphical effects if you're willing to fiddle around with things to get it looking good.

If you have an NVidia card, sometimes PCGamingWiki has instructions for tweaks you can do in Profile Inspector to adjust how the driver applies AA to a game too.

I'm still running a 1060. You'd be surprised what you can play if you're willing to put up with shit graphics

Remember when you could force MSAA through Nvidia Control Panel on almost any game without issue? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Solution is to not play modern AAA garbage. For the $40-50 pricetag, I could get a handful of great indie games off my wishlist. Games that won't bat an eye at an aging GPU.

The completely unfounded death of MSAA in modern games is devastating. It was (and still is!!!) so much better than every alternative.

Sounds like you care more about eye candy than gameplay. To each their own.

Anyone want to explain to me wtf anti-aliasing even is

Most AAA games have been so shitty lately that calling something "AAA" these days is almost like saying a bad word.

Gods, the amount of disappointments I'm glad I didn't waste money on. The biggest spending I've done on gaming lately is buying myself a Steam Deck. Now I'm enjoying my backlog of indies I got from Humble Monthly.

Watch as half life 3 comes out and you won't be able to play it without dlss or fsr

DLAA with frame generation seems pretty good to me in cyberpunk.

I've replayed rdr2 recently and TAA absolutely DESTROYS the beautiful visuals of the game.

That said stuff like DLSS is a godsend and looks 90% there depending on the situation. Its simply another tradeoff you can make.

My old nvidia can punch above its weight because of it.

This is especially apparent and a major downgrade on war thunder because you need to be able to see player tanks and aircraft in the distance which ends up being like 3 pixels on your screen which DLSS will make invisible lol.

There are definitely some games that benefit from this, but the inconsistency is still enough that its not really useful for FPS and Multiplayer games where even the slightest change on your screen can dramatically affect your gameplay. A sharp 60fps is much preferable to an AI generated 120 fps which may remove detail and accuracy.

It is strange how upscaling was bad and for potato box gamers hurdur, but give it a special PC only name and they gobble it up.

The point of increased framerate is to give less input lag, and DLSS3 can't do that because it needs the next frame to be able to interpolate to it. Literally a joke feature, so people can pretend they've got a better PC.

I don't get it... my 36 inch screens are in 1080p --> games I player are in 1080p. What's the problem?

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DLSS 2 is literally voodoo magic that in some cases looks better than native res. Don't take away my DLSS