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> When you do a 150% scale, it renders to a framebuffer at 3x the resolution of your display and then scales the framebuffer down by 1/2, which compromises the
by diffeomorphism 4y ago
> When you do a 150% scale, it renders to a framebuffer at 3x the resolution of your display and then scales the framebuffer down by 1/2, which compromises the video quality,
Isn't that exactly how apple does fractional scaling?
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052960
- vetinari 4y agoIt is exactly how Apple does fractional scaling. There is also some kind of belief, that scaling down framebuffer is somehow demanding. It isn't. The output encoder (the modern equivalent of VGA DAC) can do it on the fly. For several overlaid planes, each at different scale, at once (one of these planes is going to be your cursor).