how to get more out of your existing monitor

[kasdashd]

1. go into your GPU control panel settings, and turn up the colour saturation from 50 to 100.

2. This might only work with Nvidia GPU's, but enable DSR in the control panel, set the sharpness to 0%, and select the highest possible resolution, which is 4K/3840x2160 for 1080p displays for instace, and now you can run your your monitor at that 4K resolution, the windows desktop and games alike, even if your monitor is only 1080p.

3. Enable RTX video super resolution in the video settings in the nvidia control panel. This will AI upscale all video content in real time. You migh no notice the difference, but might as well turn it on anyway.

4. Make sure your monitor is set to the max refresh rate. A 240hz monitor for instance might not always be set to that high refresh rate by default, so go into the windows display settings and change the refresh rate to the max possible.

 

Please add more of these tips & tricks, if some of you have any additional ones.

[podkall]

17 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

turn up the colour saturation from 50 to 100.

yeah, that doesn't look good tbh

 

 

[Kilrah]

That's a terrible set of recommendations at least without mentioning the major caveats of each of them.

[Brooksie359]

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

That's a terrible set of recommendations at least without mentioning the major caveats of each of them.

I can at least say the one about refreshrate is a solid piece of advice for people who are new to using high refreshrate monitors but yeah the other ones seem like recommendations I would never make or follow. 

[Kilrah]

20 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I can at least say the one about refreshrate is a solid piece of advice for people who are new to using high refreshrate monitors but yeah the other ones seem like recommendations I would never make or follow. 

Even that has caveats, depending on the combination of hardware the highest refreshrate could e.g. be using DSC or reduce bitdepth, which may or may not be desirable depending on the intended use case. For all of these there isn't any "one size fits all", it depends on what you're doing and what you're after.

[kasdashd]

20 hours ago, podkall said:

yeah, that doesn't look good tbh

 

 

I think it does, but it is a subjetive thing, a matter of opinions.

 

20 hours ago, Kilrah said:

That's a terrible set of recommendations at least without mentioning the major caveats of each of them.

Then mention those drawbacks here in the comments, they don’t bother me and my usecases.

 

20 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

I can at least say the one about refreshrate is a solid piece of advice for people who are new to using high refreshrate monitors but yeah the other ones seem like recommendations I would never make or follow. 

Fine, but others might follow them, or try them out, those are the people I’m writing this for, not for people who already know these things.

 

20 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Even that has caveats, depending on the combination of hardware the highest refreshrate could e.g. be using DSC or reduce bitdepth, which may or may not be desirable depending on the intended use case. For all of these there isn't any "one size fits all", it depends on what you're doing and what you're after.

Exactly, that’s why they’re tips to get the “most” out if your monitor, not “the best”.

Edited February 24 by SansVarnic
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[podkall]

25 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

I think it does, but it is a subjetive thing, a matter of opinions.

you're right,

 

some people like photo-realistic colors, some like colors saturated as if you were looking directly into the Sun

[kasdashd]

2 hours ago, podkall said:

you're right,

 

some people like photo-realistic colors, some like colors saturated as if you were looking directly into the Sun

It might look like that some displays, or if your other settings or contrast is set too high, but on my display, it works great, without any drawbacks.

[Skiiwee29]

5 hours ago, kasdashd said:

I think it does, but it is a subjetive thing, a matter of opinions.

2 hours ago, kasdashd said:

It might look like that some displays, or if your other settings or contrast is set too high, but on my display, it works great, without any drawbacks.

 

This is then your opinion, which you did not state or explain. Your post comes off as being best settings in Nvidia Control Panel to get the best out of your monitor. Almost all of your advice/"tips" have bad draw backs. Just for kicks, I enabled your 100% saturation/Vibrance and it was god awful. Skin tones were completely borked, colors were eye piercingly blinding and unnatural looking.  DSR visually looks way worse in almost every scenario. Text is blurry to the point I wonder if I have my glasses on or not. 

 

5 hours ago, kasdashd said:

Then mention those drawbacks here in the comments, they don’t bother me and my usecases.

 

You started this list/thread,  you're the one who has to expand on YOUR "tips" and there limitations and drawbacks from using native/normal settings. Thats part of being the author. You have to explain WHY its better and WHAT limitations/drawbacks it has compared to normal/native.

 

 

[Andrewtst]

8 hours ago, kasdashd said:

colour saturation from 50 to 100.

This is seriously OMG! You probably love insanity over saturation, this is madness by tuning up the saturation to maximum… in your case, double than standard value.

 

8 hours ago, kasdashd said:

go into the windows display settings and change the refresh rate to the max possible.

This is the only your tips looks helpful as many don’t know and Windows is not smart enough to always pick the maximum refresh rate.

 

The rest sorry to said not that helpful, especially your first tips…

[kasdashd]

14 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

This is then your opinion, which you did not state or explain. Your post comes off as being best settings in Nvidia Control Panel to get the best out of your monitor. Almost all of your advice/"tips" have bad draw backs. Just for kicks, I enabled your 100% saturation/Vibrance and it was god awful. Skin tones were completely borked, colors were eye piercingly blinding and unnatural looking.  DSR visually looks way worse in almost every scenario. Text is blurry to the point I wonder if I have my glasses on or not. 

 

 

You started this list/thread,  you're the one who has to expand on YOUR "tips" and there limitations and drawbacks from using native/normal settings. Thats part of being the author. You have to explain WHY its better and WHAT limitations/drawbacks it has compared to normal/native.

 

 

I didn't wanna spend my time doing that, since I knew other people won't point that out. I just started a thread/conversation, for it to expand, and for others to give their input. I'm not writing a full how to guide, with all the pros and cons, don't have the time.

 

12 hours ago, Andrewtst said:

This is seriously OMG! You probably love insanity over saturation, this is madness by tuning up the saturation to maximum… in your case, double than standard value.

 

This is the only your tips looks helpful as many don’t know and Windows is not smart enough to always pick the maximum refresh rate.

 

The rest sorry to said not that helpful, especially your first tips…

It might be helpful for some people, just not you.

Edited February 24 by SansVarnic
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[Skiiwee29]

48 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

I didn't wanna spend my time doing that, since I knew other people won't point that out. I just started a thread/conversation, for it to expand, and for others to give their input. I'm not writing a full how to guide, with all the pros and cons, don't have the time.

If you don't want to take the time to post thoughtful threads and discussions surrounding things, then the forum setting may not be what you're looking for. This isn't like Facebook or Twitter where you can just post whatever you want, however you want. The forum setting is meant for meaningful engagement with proper discussion.

[kasdashd]

2 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

If you don't want to take the time to post thoughtful threads and discussions surrounding things, then the forum setting may not be what you're looking for. This isn't like Facebook or Twitter where you can just post whatever you want, however you want. The forum setting is meant for meaningful engagement with proper discussion.

That’s also ehat I’m doing by spending the time to answer all of your comments, even though I still don’t agree with your viewpoints.

[Kilrah]

On 2/23/2024 at 10:20 PM, kasdashd said:

Then mention those drawbacks here in the comments, they don’t bother me and my usecases.

But if you want to be helpful to people you have to mention them, because they might not feel the same.

 

On 2/24/2024 at 4:47 PM, kasdashd said:

I didn't wanna spend my time doing that

So you don't want to spend your time, but are happy to "force" people to spend theirs completing your lackluster posts or giving additional information so the people you're trying to "help" don't waste their time trying things with incomplete/incorrect information?

That's not how you get seen as helpful / get forum rep, that's rather getting people angry at you.

 

If you want to make guides to help people then put the time it requires to explain all relevant sides of things and your reasons for suggesting something, ideally with references. If you don't want / can't spend the time then don't post because incomplete or incorrect "guides" are worse than nothing.