Blur effect

Hi Commanders!

First of all, and since this is my first thread on this forum, I would like to thank FD and the community for their their hard work and inputs, which altogether made ED an amazing and wonderful game. I can say I love everything in this game, the good and the imperfections alike :)

Due to material constraints (no gaming PC in my apartment) I did not have the possibility to enjoy the game a lot, and i confess I spent more time watching people playing ED than actually flying my freagle. The 6-to-10 hours I spent playing however were very satisfying. That being said I quickly realized something: I have the strange but very strong feeling that the game somewhat looks better on youtube than while playing.

For those wondering, I can already tell you that I am playing in 1080p with all settings to maximum. My "issue" is actually not the quality of the graphics as they are quite amazing. No, I realize this is something different: it has to do with the "cinema effect". I realized that video on youtube are a bit blurred (for different reasons that are not relevant here I guess), just like when you go to the movie and the details are sometimes not as clear and precise as your top-notch LCD TV. As you can guess I like the old-school movie rendering a lot, even though it is quite subjective.

I was wondering whether I was the only one to have that feeling and, more importantly, whether FD would eventually consider adding an optional blur filter to make the game look a bit more movie-ish. I keep watching amazing videos on youtube/twitch and can't help thinking I would like my game to be the same. What are you thinking Commanders? :)
 
i think you can use fxaa injectors, aka enb series, to alter the visuals of the game a bit.

lowering the resolution will obviously make the game look more blurry (and potentially smoother), try 720p. or try fxaa as antialiasing method. this will also make the image look more blurry.

however, i'm not really a fan of this. i like things to look sharp. i currently don't have the hardware but if you have a beefy gpu, you should try downsampling. nvidia recently implemented driver based downsampling, aka dynamic super resolution. amd recently released something similar but i don't know how they call it. with this you can render the game in super high resolutions (4k etc.) and the driver scales it down to 1080p (or whatever your native monitor resolution is). this makes actually any game look fantastic. no more aliasing, everything just looks super sharp.
 
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