Originally posted by dungeon
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I have never understood the need to change the resolution.
If the screen is larger than the resolution supported by the game, why not run in windowed mode? At least I (though I'm not a gamer) hate the pixel graphics I get when running a game which supports only 1024x768 on my full HD computer screen.
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I hope we could agree that nobody wants to change the resolution, but that faking the "right" resolution for the game window should be enough.
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I think on this thread a good approach has been highlighted: upscaling in the compositor and not changing the resolution.
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Don't get me wrong: I'm all for improving the situation, I'm just someone who is very sceptical and am looking for the best solution not from a theoretical aspect but from a practical one.
If the screen is larger than the resolution supported by the game, why not run in windowed mode? At least I (though I'm not a gamer) hate the pixel graphics I get when running a game which supports only 1024x768 on my full HD computer screen.
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I hope we could agree that nobody wants to change the resolution, but that faking the "right" resolution for the game window should be enough.
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I think on this thread a good approach has been highlighted: upscaling in the compositor and not changing the resolution.
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Don't get me wrong: I'm all for improving the situation, I'm just someone who is very sceptical and am looking for the best solution not from a theoretical aspect but from a practical one.
The above is just an example. Many core people in the Linux stack are totally clueless about video games. They have the very strong view that video games are just like other desktop applications, and that video games should be changed to work like desktop applications. In this example, we have a person who doesn't know anything about video games trying to convince a video game expert (Ryan C. Gordon) that he's wrong. Like, seriously. He's suggesting that video games should *go through the compositor*. I shit you not... Look it up yourself.
You can not expect those people to make Linux gaming awesome, as they have no idea what's even needed, why it's needed, and why Windows gets it 100% right and Linux gets it 100% wrong.
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