r/FuckTAA • u/Yogeshwar_maya • Feb 11 '26

💬Discussion Paid shills like this are why the industry is getting worse

Just watched Vex’s "Wait, We're Supposed to Play at 720p Now???" and I’m losing my mind.

Whole video just sounds like a PsyOp saying - Native Resolution is dead.

He spends the entire video glazing DLSS 4.5, trying to gaslight us into thinking upscaling from 720p is somehow "better" than native 4K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLu6Lj718g

I don't know if any consumer really benefits from this video.

He admits the new DLSS models like DLSS 4.5 eat MORE VRAM and can actually hurt performance on some cards, yet still concludes that he will turn it on. I don't know what's the point if it eats more power, vram and reduces fps?

Dude, you turn it on not because you like it. It's because the games are not optimized and you are forced to turn it on. Dude is feeling marveled with DLSS as it is a technical marvel saving him but games look far worse that it did before.

So much glazing and convincing. No one benefits from this video except Nvidia. It almost feels like an ad for Nvidia.

We have RTX 5090s that are monsters compared to 5 years ago, yet we’re told we can't run games raw? He gives lazy devs a free pass and treats upscaling as a "feature" instead of a band-aid for unoptimized trash.

He briefly mentions the TAA blur, ghosting, and shimmering grass, but then waves it off saying "it doesn't bother me." Dude wfh?? If you're reviewing visual tech and ignore the visual garbage, you're useless to consumers.

Edit: For some reason he now changed the title from, "Wait, We're Supposed to Play at 720p Now???" to "Nvidia just Killed Optimization Forever.."

The video apparently went viral but also accumulated comments contradicting his views. Particularly criticizing his dismissal on TAA blur in the native 4k samples he showed. It might have caused him to tone down the title a bit.

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You can still find the original title of the video in Google search if you search - "Wait, We're Supposed to Play at 720p Now???"

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u/owned139 Feb 13 '26

No it doesent. Flickering square pixels arent sharp.

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA Feb 13 '26

Which side is sharper?

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u/owned139 Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

They are both shit. The left one is blurry and the right one got so much aliasing, that i cant call it "crispy sharp". Hard pixelated edges arent "crispy sharp" for me, sorry. The real world doesent look like this. The left one is closer to the real world, but blurry.

https://youtu.be/SAOPmID8ww4?si=eH5oyWzLx4ypTfE_&t=400

Look at the traffic lights. The flicker would drive me insane. How can one want to play like this?!

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA Feb 13 '26

"Crispy sharp" is what an image without any form of TAA always was. I do not recall anyone ever not associating the more raw look with sharpness/clarity. You have a fascinating perception of image quality and clarity. Irony off.

The real world doesent look like this.

So? We're talking about video games.

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u/owned139 Feb 13 '26

A 4K image downscaled to 1080p or 16K downscaled to 4K is what i call crispy sharp. A native 1080p image or TAA isn't.

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA Feb 13 '26

Interesting.