Is my resolution correct?

[Bourne_Endeavour]

Having a sort of odd "problem"? I recently played around with my resolution; switching it to various ones quite a few times. At the moment, it's set to 3840x2160, but according to this site here, it's still locked at 1920x1080. So I'm wondering if there's a problem. Opening up the Nvidia control panel has my GPU (GTX 980ti) at a native 1920x1080 despite both my resolutions changed, and I'm using a 4k TV as a monitor.

As you can tell, I'm very new with a lot of this, so any help is very much appreciated.

[Bittenfleax]

@Bourne_Endeavour Did you change it with Windows Control Panel or Nvidia Control Panel? (I am not even sure you can with Nvidia but just incase I might as well ask.)

[vanished]

you should be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4K... if not, your monitor is probably too small to be worth having 4K

[alexhelvetica]

Scaling. The same thing happens to me.

I set my monitor which is 1680 X 1050 to 100% scaling and I got 1344 x 840 on http://www.whatismyscreenresolution.com/

 

I only turned scaling on to test that.

 

[Glenwing]

If you've got Windows scaling turned up above 100%, it messes with resolution detection for applications.

[Paralectic]

you should be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4K... if not, your monitor is probably too small to be worth having 4K

He said he has a 4K tv.

[Bourne_Endeavour]

Okay, I figured it was something silly. My scaling is set 200%, but the native resolution thing in nvidia's control panel threw me off. And yes @Bittenfleax both are set at 3840x2160.

First PC I've ever built. So even the little things make me nervous. Thanks again!

[vanished]

He said he has a 4K tv.

Well all the more easy to see the pixels then. Should be able to tell the difference

[Bourne_Endeavour]

Well all the more easy to see the pixels then. Should be able to tell the difference

Oh, I could tell, especially after loading youtube at 4k. I just wanted to know what was causing that site error.

[vanished]

Oh, I could tell, especially after loading youtube at 4k. I just wanted to know what was causing that site error.

oh ok  Yeah I would always take system info detected by a webpage with a grain of salt since if they could actually get any real info reliably, it would probably be a privacy concern