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1080P Gaming on a 4K Monitor Issues?

Makifo
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This is the current monitor I have. I have two GTX 970s SLI with a display port running to my Monitor. When I play games in 4K or even 1440p the colors look just great. But when I scale it down to 1080p the text looks badly scaled and there's a horrible blue tint to the display. It started ever since I had the monitor and 1 970. I have never figured out how to get rid of this issue for about a year now. I haven't even found any posts about this issue.

 

Driver updates didn't help, Editing the color settings didn't help. messing with the Color scale in NVIDIA Control Panel.

 

Can anyone help me?

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could you post a picture of it? Does that monitor have any kind of upscaler?

 

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thats strange, 1080p should scale better than 1440p on a 4k screen. can you take a picture of it? maybe it has something to do with it beeing a freesync monitor and youre using nvidia cards.

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9 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

thats strange, 1080p should scale better than 1440p on a 4k screen. can you take a picture of it? maybe it has something to do with it beeing a freesync monitor and youre using nvidia cards.

that is a common misconception... 1440p will always look better

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3 minutes ago, MrSuperb said:

that is a common misconception... 1440p will always look better

well depends on the interpolation i guess, i own a 4k monitor and 1080p looks sharp to me where 1440p looks blurry-ish. and i own quite a few monitors for comparison.

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6 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

thats strange, 1080p should scale better than 1440p on a 4k screen. can you take a picture of it? maybe it has something to do with it beeing a freesync monitor and youre using nvidia cards.

I am not home right now. I will be able to take a picture when I get home. But its really strange...

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27 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

could you post a picture of it? Does that monitor have any kind of upscaler?

Not that I know of. I have it set in gamemode now. So now it disables any upscaling in preference of performance. Ill have to grab one when I get home...

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30 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

could you post a picture of it? Does that monitor have any kind of upscaler?

This isn't my monitor but this is more or less what it looks like when the screen has a blue tint. I have found that it happens when I am not in 3840 x 2160 or 2056 x 1440. Any other resolution is hit and miss.

 

 

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26 minutes ago, Makifo said:

This isn't my monitor but this is more or less what it looks like when the screen has a blue tint. I have found that it happens when I am not in 3840 x 2160 or 2056 x 1440. Any other resolution is hit and miss.

 

 

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tried using another DP/HDMI cable/port on your gpu?

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3 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

tried using another DP/HDMI cable/port on your gpu?

Yes sir... Both DPs...

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55 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

well depends on the interpolation i guess, i own a 4k monitor and 1080p looks sharp to me where 1440p looks blurry-ish. and i own quite a few monitors for comparison.

that is more than strange. I am not aware of any 4k monitor doing pixel doubleing so 1440p should always be sharper.

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Something worth trying is going into your Nvidia Control Panel and under scaling tell it to scale on your GPU, not on your monitor.  It defaults to your monitor and with mine it took at lot of the contrast out of the picture.

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2 minutes ago, MrSuperb said:

that is more than strange. I am not aware of any 4k monitor doing pixel doubleing so 1440p should always be sharper.

cant compair to another 4k monitor since i own only one. the other ones are 1440p and ultrawide 1440p

just telling like it is for me :D

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Just now, Minsekt said:

cant compair to another 4k monitor since i own only one. the other ones are 1440p and ultrawide 1440p

just telling like it is for me :D

which one?

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4 minutes ago, MrSuperb said:

which one?

PG27AQ, PG278Q, PG279Q and Predator X34 :ph34r:

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6 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

PG27AQ, PG278Q, PG279Q and Predator X34 :ph34r:

only really was interested in the 4K model :P ...

Still seems strange that you find 1080p to be better than 1440p.

Reviews would disagree.

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The monitor may be switching color and scaling modes to "TV"-optimized defaults whenever you switch to a " TV" resolution like 1080p or 1366×768. As suggested before make sure in the NVIDIA control panel you've set scaling to be performed on the GPU, not display. Set it to "Aspect Ratio" as well.

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1 hour ago, Glenwing said:

The monitor may be switching color and scaling modes to "TV"-optimized defaults whenever you switch to a " TV" resolution like 1080p or 1366×768. As suggested before make sure in the NVIDIA control panel you've set scaling to be performed on the GPU, not display. Set it to "Aspect Ratio" as well.

Will do and I will update you this evening. Thank you!

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20 hours ago, Glenwing said:

The monitor may be switching color and scaling modes to "TV"-optimized defaults whenever you switch to a " TV" resolution like 1080p or 1366×768. As suggested before make sure in the NVIDIA control panel you've set scaling to be performed on the GPU, not display. Set it to "Aspect Ratio" as well.

That did in fact fix the issue. I needed to change the Scaling for the GPU to manage it. 
 

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5 minutes ago, Makifo said:

That did in fact fix the issue. I needed to change the Scaling for the GPU to manage it. 
 

Thank you!

I have the same monitor as you - this is good to know xD

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