Display and Performance
Alpha-to-coverage gives cutout textures another route to smoother edges
Alpha-to-coverage uses multisample coverage to soften cutout edges such as foliage. Learn what it changes and why it is not ordinary transparency.
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Display and Performance
Display and Performance
Frame pacing explains why a high average FPS can still feel uneven
Average FPS can hide uneven frame delivery. Learn what frame pacing reveals and how to compare settings without losing track of the test conditions.
Display and Performance
Foveated rendering spends detail where the headset expects you to look
Fixed and eye-tracked foveated rendering distribute detail differently in VR. Learn what the setting changes and how to judge it in an actual game.
Display and Performance
Dithered transparency builds a soft edge from a pattern of pixels
Speckled hair or fading objects can come from dithered transparency. Learn why temporal anti-aliasing can smooth the pattern and why motion may reveal it.
Display and Performance
A ray-traced image needs denoising as well as more rays
Real-time ray tracing uses limited samples, so denoising helps build the final image. Look for motion and fine detail when comparing graphics settings.
Display and Performance
Sampler feedback helps a renderer ask which texture details are actually needed
Sampler feedback records texture sampling information for a renderer. Learn how it can support streaming and why hardware support alone does not improve every game.
Display and Performance
Occlusion culling: the game world can continue beyond what gets drawn
Occlusion culling reduces rendering work for hidden objects. Learn how it differs from the camera’s view boundary and why a game may still simulate what you cannot see.
Display and Performance
Trilinear filtering: the graphics setting that softens texture transitions
Learn how trilinear filtering blends between mipmap levels and how to compare its effect while keeping other game graphics settings unchanged.
Display and Performance
Variable rate shading changes where a game spends its shading work
Variable rate shading changes where a game spends shading work. Learn how it differs from lowering resolution and how to compare the result.