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[jcorb]

I've been gaming my whole life, and a good chunk of that has been on PC. For some reason, though, there are a just a ton of terms when it comes to technical performance that I just... don't know. Often times when a game is running slow on my PC, I just go through my settings and just pick whatever "feels" like it would improve my performance, even when I have no idea what the setting I'm actually messing with does. I have no idea what "anti-aliasing" is, or if increasing or lowering "Sharpening" has any impact whatsoever on my performance.

I'm curious if any of you guys have any resources or videos you'd recommend for learning more about all these different aspects of how games run, and what all these different terms mean? Or do you just start googling each individual setting you come across, one by one?

 

[HRK69]

Chatgpt

 

[Meifu]

Digital foundry does a good job of translating jargon and showing it. Watch their vids and you’ll pick it up

 

[CrustyBritches]

Antialiasing gets rid of jaggies. There’s lots of different techniques of varying quality and performance impact. Usually has AA in the name. Top grade AA these days is probably DLAA.

This is a decent reference that even covers older techniques…

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/what-is-anti-aliasing

A lot of that functionality, TAA in particular, is built into AI upscaling usually called some variation of Super Resolution like PSSR, FSR 4, DLSS. If you have a RTX GPU then try the new transformer AI version of DLSS, it’s pretty amazing…

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-dlss-4-patch-out-now.1679937/

 

[StereoVsn]

Chatgpt

Yeah, seriously, use ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini. This sort of stuff is going to be well suited for chatbots. Ask it to play a role of instructor or expert and explain like you are in middle school.