4k gaming

[Hamusii]

so im tryna play some games on 4k but i have a 1080p monitor i tried playing with the dsr factors but it looks a bit blurry anything i can do with that ?

[Oswin]

why would you want to run 4K on a 1080p monitor? it wont have much benefit other than looking worse imo.

[zeusthemoose]

Why? It won’t look better and your FPS will likely be trash.

[The Sloth]

5 minutes ago, Oswin said:

why would you want to run 4K on a 1080p monitor? it wont have much benefit other than looking worse imo.

anti aliasing, if you have the GPU power, why not? 

[Oswin]

2 minutes ago, The Sloth said:

anti aliasing, if you have the GPU power, why not? 

how would upping the resolution help than enabling AA in the settings? the monitor wont have enough pixels to display the image in the first place.

 

also if you habe the money to buy a GPU capable of 4K gaming, why a 1080p monitor?

Edited August 9, 2020 by Oswin

[The Sloth]

Just now, Oswin said:

how would upping the resolution help than enabling AA in the settings? the monitor wont have enough pixels to display the image in the first place.

 

Thats called supersampeling 

 

 

[Oswin]

9 minutes ago, The Sloth said:

Thats called supersampeling 

 

 

even if SSAA was option

18 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

your FPS will likely be trash.

this^ will also likely happen

[The Sloth]

8 minutes ago, Oswin said:

 

this^ will also likely happen

What's why i said 

 

 

23 minutes ago, The Sloth said:

anti aliasing, if you have the GPU power, why not? 

20 minutes ago, Oswin said:

also if you habe the money to buy a GPU capable of 4K gaming, why a 1080p monitor?

What if you are poor and want high refreshrate monitor for CSGO/ Apex and 4k for Witcher 3. I used to have a 980ti paired with 1080p 144hz, 144 for CS, 4k supersampled for Witcher 3, i was too poor for an actual 4k monitor, those were very expensive. 

[Oswin]

6 minutes ago, The Sloth said:

What's why i said 

 

 

What if you are poor and want high refreshrate monitor for CSGO/ Apex and 4k for Witcher 3. I used to have a 980ti paired with 1080p 144hz, 144 for CS, 4k supersampled for Witcher 3, i was too poor for an actual 4k monitor, those were very expensive. 

i'm surprised if that the witcher would run 60+ fps on that resolution on a 980ti

[PlayStation 2]

20 minutes ago, Oswin said:

i'm surprised if that the witcher would run 60+ fps on that resolution on a 980ti

What if he just wants some eye candy screenshots? That's what I like to do. My RX 580 sure as fuck can't pull off 3840x2400 in Forza Horizon 4 but that's fine, because the frame rate isn't low enough to bother me for taking screenshots.

 

OP, image scaling is always going to look a little blurry or soft, even when supersampling. Image scaling tends to do that.

[SkilledRebuilds]

If your on Nvidia and use DSR, DO NOT USE SCALE FILTERING on JUST 4K (because it already scales 1:1 and your guassan filtering isnt needed)

Only use filtering for DSR in sub4K (1440p/1600p/1800p options available to DSR) that 33% Default works well for 1600-1800p.

 

You CAN leave desktop on 1080p and set games in 4K.

I currently (zero filtering) have 4K Desktop and run anything I want at 4K or 1080p.

 

Shadowplay (NV-REC) also limits you to 50Mbps datarates at 1080p and 1440p, with 4K/InGame Res settings it can go to over double that (130Mbps)
I mainly used it for 4K Quality Recordings so I don't get limited to 1080p 50Mbps (basically using 4K for youtube enhanced datarates on higher resolutions which IS a thing)

 

Leave it enabled, run however you want. (4K, whatever, extra options exist)

[The Sloth]

1 hour ago, handymanshandle said:

What if he just wants some eye candy screenshots? That's what I like to do. My RX 580 sure as fuck can't pull off 3840x2400 in Forza Horizon 4 but that's fine, because the frame rate isn't low enough to bother me for taking screenshots.

 

 

yup, 60 fps in 4k is doable( with some settings tweak) with a 980ti FYI( especially if you do a bit of legwork and OC it). 

 

1 hour ago, Oswin said:

i'm surprised if that the witcher would run 60+ fps on that resolution on a 980ti

With a OC, its basically a 1080. 

[Sahl]

The bigger question is why you want to run 4k on a 1080p monitor. Before we know that, then it will be hard to hit you with any advice other than, don´t try to scale to 4k?
You gain nothing from doing it and you hurt your FPS.. seems counter productive to me.