DF: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - Switch vs Wii U

[Jumpin]

SpokenTruth said:

Jumpin said:

How can a 720p screen render higher than 720p? That doesn’t make sense to me.

The screen itself doesn't but the image is rendered internally at the higher resolution and then reduced back to the screen resolution.  It's a form of anti-aliasing but it's very taxing on hardware...more so than any other form of AA.

Here is the difference supersampling can make. 

https://www.technopat.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ssaa-anti-aliasingnedir.png

Ah, I see. So it’s blending the pixels. E.G. if you had a screen of 5 pixels across, but the image was 6 pixels, 3 blue, 3 brown, the supersampling would essentially blend the middle pixel to be blue and brown.

Is that correct?

 

I think what threw me off is the word "render"

Last edited by Jumpin - on 24 April 2018