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RoccoErnest 9 Jan @ 6:48am
Why does my laptop display look better than my desktop monitor?
I have a 17" HP laptop, just a general one for work, not a gaming laptop. I usually play UMF on my desktop when home.

However, sometimes I'm out/at clients/working remotely etc and I have the laptop and I play UMF. The display seems to be much nicer. On my desktop its fine. On the laptop, the screen looks brighter and higher contrast. The raster-like graphics look like a real raster display on the laptop, sharp, etc while on the desktop not so much.

The home system is an ASUS low-level gaming laptop that's a few years old, plugged into an external HDMI 40" desktop monitor as the primary display. I'm wondering if maybe the main display monitor is ♥♥♥♥♥♥, or if there's a setting or something that makes it not as crisp.
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retsa2b 10 Jan @ 1:37am 
> The raster-like graphics look like a real raster display on the laptop, sharp, etc while on the desktop not so much.

This part is due to how the game renders its graphics. It's a problem, and the very first thing I commented on in these forums. I've requested a change to fix it.

In a nutshell, all of the graphics are rendered at about 1000 x 1000, with no real antialiasing. Then the "vector monitor" filter is applied to it, which does a little antialiasing to the hard stairstepping of the input frame just as a natural part of how the filter works. Because the input frame is basically nothing but blocky pixels, the final frame after the filter still looks blocky.

The reason it looks sharp and "like a real raster display" on the laptop is because of the smaller screen. You can get the same exact effect simply by playing the game in windowed mode and shrinking the window down. Obviously this should NOT be the case, and it wouldn't be, if the game was being rendered at your display's native resolution rather than ~1000 x ~1000 internally AND the render was using anti-aliasing.

I don't think it's a very tall ask. MAME has been doing it better for many years.
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