POLL: Which default video mode do you prefer? (video_smooth on or off)

Tagged: bilinear filter, video_smooth

This topic has 18 replies, 18 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 7 months ago by katsudoro.

Viewing 19 posts - 1 through 19 (of 19 total)

Author

Posts
02/25/2016 at 21:18 #118122

dankcushions
Participant

Below are a series of images of the video_smooth option on or off. Currently, ‘on’ is the default, but which you do you prefer? NOTE: either way, you can change this setting in your options :)

(please click on the images to see them full screen, to get the best idea)

video_smooth off
[img]http://i.imgur.com/erbG4oq.png[/img]

video_smooth on
[img]http://i.imgur.com/LTHL6ct.png[/img]

video_smooth off
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7FOF7Qy.png[/img]

video_smooth on
[img]http://i.imgur.com/hVmqPju.png[/img]

video_smooth off
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ANQLydw.png[/img]

video_smooth on
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ZWuHUPP.png[/img]

(there doesn’t appear to be poll functionality in this forum, so just leave your answer as a reply, cheers!)

02/25/2016 at 21:23 #118126

herbfargus
Member

I think it depends on the system you’re using but especially for most of the older systems my vote is for

OFF

02/25/2016 at 21:24 #118128

labelwhore
Participant

off

02/25/2016 at 21:27 #118129

rookervik
Participant

Like Herbfargus said, it depends on the system and what resolution you’re running the games at. If you’re running at 1080p, then OFF is best, most of the time. If you are forced to run a game at 640×480 or even lower, it’s sometimes better to use ON so that you don’t get different DPI pixels.

02/25/2016 at 23:26 #118163

stevetb
Participant

I always set smoothing to:

OFF

02/26/2016 at 00:00 #118169

Omnija
Participant

Smooth OFF, it always makes the game look blurry instead of clear.

02/26/2016 at 00:37 #118172

rascas
Participant

OFF

02/26/2016 at 09:56 #118216

sunjammer
Participant

OFF

02/26/2016 at 15:11 #118229

petrockblog
Keymaster

ON (I wasn’t going to vote – but since herb did :-) )

It actually depends on which monitor I use – one of my monitors looks good with it on, another is too blurry.

02/26/2016 at 15:49 #118237

Floob
Member

I like both…

OFF – to make it more clear to users that the view is unaltered. That then (I think) makes the process of changing video settings more clear. Otherwise you tend to get posts saying “Why does the video look all blurry”. That said, having smooth as on can often be enough to give that CRT look for many people.

ON – I like this setting in combination with scanline overlays, as I feel it gives the best representation of how I remember CRT gaming.

Horses for courses I guess.

02/26/2016 at 21:18 #118280

zerojay
Participant

Off.

02/27/2016 at 02:56 #118320

somebody
Participant

I agree that it is depending on the game. If you’re playing something with decent graphics like N64 or GC, i’d probably use smooth. Anything that takes it’s charm from being pixelated though, definitely off. For what I mainly do on my Pi, I’d prefer off. But then again, I don’t know how to turn it on or off…

03/02/2016 at 02:16 #118785

fistwielder
Participant

Off

03/02/2016 at 20:17 #118864

redfarmer
Participant

Off.

03/02/2016 at 20:42 #118871

kronspliffs
Participant

I like Off better, more of an original feel to me.

03/03/2016 at 17:26 #118976

lostmuppet
Participant

Off, I like nice clear vibrant pixels.

03/04/2016 at 15:05 #119043

retrocam
Participant

Off

I remember when I first discovered turning filtering or smoothing off in an emulator. Say goodbye to fuzz. Say hello to pixels. :)

03/05/2016 at 15:25 #119150

petrockblog
Keymaster

the default is now off

03/15/2016 at 15:14 #120447

katsudoro
Participant

OFF. As the others said, I think turning video_smooth ON makes the game look too blurry on my monitor.
Author

Posts