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Some older games really weren't designed to run at 4K, nevermind 8K.

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Tried running Half Life 2 today at 7680x4320 (16 times the size of 1080p) and found the menu system just slightly difficult to read.  Also manage a 30fps average.

 

Half Life 2:

https://imgur.com/a/EFo5i

 

The story continues with Titan Quest:

https://imgur.com/a/zgUct

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I always thought this was somewhat obvious... 

 

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Alot of games weren't ment to run at 1080p from ten+ years ago.....

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Alot of games weren't ment to run at 1080p from ten+ years ago.....

I was kinda amazed when Vice City ran with no problems in 1080p :D 

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I was kinda amazed when Vice City ran with no problems in 1080p :D

Looks like shit tho. Vice city looks better on my phone than my pc.............. it's so sad

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Well when you're not running it natively, of course the text will be small.

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Looks like some simple UI scaling would fix that.

 

It looks pretty normal other than the poor resolution textures.

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Tried running Half Life 2 today at 7680x4320 (16 times the size of 1080p) and found the menu system just slightly difficult to read.  Also manage a 30fps average.

 

https://imgur.com/a/EFo5i

how did u get it at that res are downsampling or do u actually have a native 8k panel?

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Looks the same as always...

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Wait, that game is 10 years old? :o

 

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Looks like shit tho. Vice city looks better on my phone than my pc.............. it's so sad

Vice City in phones are Remastered in HD tho, so no surprise if they are better than in pc which is about 10+ yrs now

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Downsampling using GeDoSaTo (Generic Down Sampling Tool) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=807472

You know you can just enter a custom resolution in your graphics card menu. Then on the desktop change it back to normal resolution, now in game the option to output at a higher resolution will be there. I use this method to downsample 1440p to my monitor and no iffy software to do it, just native support.

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sweet thanks!

 

Didn't mention that you can do it natively in the NVidia Control Panel if you don't want the other parts of GeDoSaTo like scaryjam823 said.

 

You know you can just enter a custom resolution in your graphics card menu. Then on the desktop change it back to normal resolution, now in game the option to output at a higher resolution will be there. I use this method to downsample 1440p to my monitor and no iffy software to do it, just native support.

 

I don't have that luxury as I use AMD.  Anyway it has a bunch of other useful features like it lets me take screenshots at the rendered resolution instead of the downsampled resolution.

 

Here are some Dishonored screenshots https://imgur.com/a/Q5tHC

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Didn't mention that you can do it natively in the NVidia Control Panel if you don't want the other parts of GeDoSaTo like scaryjam823 said.

 

 

Yea ive done that but i can only go up to 4k until my monitor will just go black :/

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Tried running Half Life 2 today at 7680x4320 (16 times the size of 1080p) and found the menu system just slightly difficult to read.  Also manage a 30fps average.

 

Half Life 2:

https://imgur.com/a/EFo5i

You can probably fix this with some console commands. Look into it.

 

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Looks like some simple UI scaling would fix that.

 

It looks pretty normal other than the poor resolution textures.

Where are the poor resolution textures? HL2 is still one of the best looking games IMO.

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Where are the poor resolution textures? HL2 is still one of the best looking games IMO.

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