Can I play on 1080p with my 720p tv

[JeI2emy]

I plan on joining the PC master race and I already have a 23inch tv that I used for console gaming, can I still enjoy 1080p gaming on my 720p display? This is my TV model: http://icecat.us/p/sony/kdl-24r400a/led-tvs-KDL-24R400A-19330401.html

[Guest]

If your GPU supports it you can upscale to 1080p (not true pixels) via DSR or VSR but it won't look good as native 1080p

Your TV is a 720p and there isn't a way to make it higher

[MasterChromatica]

Yes just upscale

[rn8686]

Up scaling or AA, but not quite the same as native resoluction. 

[JeI2emy]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

If your GPU supports it you can upscale to 1080p (not true pixels) via DSR or VSR but it won't look good as native 1080p

Your TV is a 720p and there isn't a way to make it higher

Just read that upscaled may be a little "blocky" compared to Native 720p, will this affect me at all? Or is it only noticeable on larger displays 

[Guest]

I'd just go for 720p. It'll look insanely better than consoles regardless. 

[VG Docs]

NOT upscaling, downsampling. Very different thing and the results can drastically vary. For me, I've never been able to downsample and have it look good (with either AMD or Nvidia GPUs - it always looks VERY blurry for some reason). Although if you can get it to work for you, it should definitely look much better than if you were to upscale from 720p to 1080p, for example.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, JeI2emy said:

Just read that upscaled may be a little "blocky" compared to Native 720p, will this affect me at all? Or is it only noticeable on larger displays 

What? I play 1080 with my TV, and there's no blocky bits. Mine's a 32" 720P model, so your TV should be fine.

[JeI2emy]

5 minutes ago, Trogdor8freebird said:

NOT upscaling, downsampling. Very different thing and the results can drastically vary. For me, I've never been able to downsample and have it look good (with either AMD or Nvidia GPUs - it always looks VERY blurry for some reason). Although if you can get it to work for you, it should definitely look much better than if you were to upscale from 720p to 1080p, for example.

Read Downsampling really hurts the GPU performance,I´ll be buying this GPU:https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N970G1-GAMING-4GD-rev-10-11#ov dont know if it can handle it well

[Glenwing]

16 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

If your GPU supports it you can upscale to 1080p (not true pixels) via DSR or VSR but it won't look good as native 1080p

Your TV is a 720p and there isn't a way to make it higher

 

15 minutes ago, StepinCurry said:

Yes just upscale

 

12 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Up scaling or AA, but not quite the same as native resoluction. 

Producing a 1080p image and scaling it to 720p for display is downscaling, not upscaling

[VG Docs]

5 minutes ago, JeI2emy said:

Read Downsampling really hurts the GPU performance,I´ll be buying this GPU:https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N970G1-GAMING-4GD-rev-10-11#ov dont know if it can handle it well

Think of downsampling like rendering a resolution in full and... well downsampling that to fit your display. Essentially, it's rendering at 1080p even on your 720p display. GTX 970 is still good at 1080p but you do want to watch out for some games depending on the target frame rate. If you end up having issues in terms of performance, I think it's generally preferable to have greater in-game settings instead of the downsampling but it's always going to be a matter of preference of one thing over another. 

[JeI2emy]

4 minutes ago, Trogdor8freebird said:

Think of downsampling like rendering a resolution in full and... well downsampling that to fit your display. Essentially, it's rendering at 1080p even on your 720p display. GTX 970 is still good at 1080p but you do want to watch out for some games depending on the target frame rate. If you end up having issues in terms of performance, I think it's generally preferable to have greater in-game settings instead of the downsampling but it's always going to be a matter of preference of one thing over another. 

Thank you, I will try downsampling if it doesn´t affect performance that much, if it does I´ll just stick to 720p. 1080p monitors are really cheap rn so it won´t take too long to upgrade.

[manikyath]

the question is why?

 

quality wont improve much from upscaling 720->1080, you'll essentially just be wasting gpu cycles and have text be harder to read.

[Glenwing]

1 hour ago, JeI2emy said:

Thank you, I will try downsampling if it doesn´t affect performance that much, if it does I´ll just stick to 720p. 1080p monitors are really cheap rn so it won´t take too long to upgrade.

Playing at 1080p and downscaling to 720p is the same performance hit as playing at 1080p (in fact, it is playing at 1080p, it isn't a different thing).

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Glenwing said:

 

 

Producing a 1080p image and scaling it to 720p for display is downscaling, not upscaling

yeah wrong terminology sorry

[Glenwing]

4 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

yeah wrong terminology sorry

Apparently it is a common mistake

[AshleyAshes]

1 hour ago, Glenwing said:

Apparently it is a common mistake

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