Non-native resolution?

Lord_Karango17 · December 19, 2015

So long story short, Linus' enthusiasm about the 2014 razer blade was part of the reason I got it.

One of the points that got me pretty excited was when he said that you could work around the interpolation caused my non-native resolutions if its an even multiple.

https://youtu.be/syYpKaREbQE?t=1h19m58s

Since the blade has a 3200x1800 screen it would make sense that a in game resolution of 1600x900 would not have any interpolation. The problem is that there is no benefit to running an even multiple resolution that I can see. It looks as bad, if not worse than running that game at 1080p.

I would post pictures, but my phone does not take good photos, and I dont have a native 900p monitor to compare to.

My question is, what is the reason for this? because it makes sense, and should look good, but it does not.

Glenwing · December 19, 2015

So long story short, Linus' enthusiasm about the 2014 razer blade was part of the reason I got it.

One of the points that got me pretty excited was when he said that you could work around the interpolation caused my non-native resolutions if its an even multiple.

https://youtu.be/syYpKaREbQE?t=1h19m58s

Since the blade has a 3200x1800 screen it would make sense that a in game resolution of 1600x900 would not have any interpolation. The problem is that there is no benefit to running an even multiple resolution that I can see. It looks as bad, if not worse than running that game at 1080p.

I would post pictures, but my phone does not take good photos, and I dont have a native 900p monitor to compare to.

My question is, what is the reason for this? because it makes sense, and should look good, but it does not.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/278610-display-technology-faqmythbuster/

Read #8. Same principles apply here.

FAQBytes · December 19, 2015

Well, for one, you are playing at a lower resolution.

Besides that, the more pixels you have, the more likely they will line up with pixels on screen, while this may seem counter intuitive as some scaling would have to be done as it is not a perfect multiple, it's just a weird thing that happens and it works better on some games than others. I recommend playing whatever looks best to you.

Glenwing · December 19, 2015

Well, for one, you are playing at a lower resolution.

Besides that, the more pixels you have, the more likely they will line up with pixels on screen, while this may seem counter intuitive as some scaling would have to be done as it is not a perfect multiple, it's just a weird thing that happens and it works better on some games than others. I recommend playing whatever looks best to you.

1600x900 is not a perfect multiple of 3200x1800?

FAQBytes · December 19, 2015

1600x900 is not a perfect multiple of 3200x1800?

Sorry, I was playing the pronoun game and was referring to 1080p. I realize how badly it is worded now, but eh, whatever. Doing this in between packing.