> We did try to ship some reasonable defaults but people kept complaining that they > didn't look "CRT-enough" and so you now have to tone back your settings. This is one > of those areas where you really can't win, everyone had a different experience.
Shit, back when I first implemented the HLSL system I even tried making it so that it looked 1:1 identical to -video gdi with bilinear filtering enabled. Then suddenly it was "WAAAA I TRUNS ON TEH HLSLZ BUT IT NO LUK DIFERNT, U SUK" from BOTH sides of the issue.