Let's talk about Render Scaling - Why? Advantages? Disadvantages?

[FlyingBear01]

There was a big blowout around this in one of the threads just a few days ago, searching for “super sampling” or “SSAA” should find it… It was pretty funny.

Edited to add one of many useful posts from that thread:

Discussion + Poll: World Update VI (1.19.8.0)

The game doesn’t offer SSAA, and render scale 200 is the same as 2xSSAA. Super sampling anti aliasing = rendering at double the resolution then down sampling Or watch this slide show Anyway it seems you understand the benefit of SSAA, now you only need to take the step to realizing that SSAA is rendering 4x the pixels (for example 2160p) to display the mathematical average of those pixels (for example 1080p)

In short, render scaling higher than 100% is a way of making the sim use a form of SSAA, or super sampling anti aliasing. I don’t use render scaling above 100% since I have a 4k monitor with only an RTX 2070 Super, but it seems some people with lower resolution monitors have great results with it. I use render scaling of 80 or 90% for performance.