Put A 4K Display In My Gaming Laptop? Run games at 2k for the same performance?

[iamdarkyoshi]

So I've got a laptop at work with a 4K dispkay (well, 3840x2160) and if I run at half the resolution for demanding games, I'll have exactly 1920x1080. But for normal use, I can use it at 4K or on games with lower demands, 4k.

 

Good idea/bad idea? Assuming the laptop works with it, I'd assume it would. If not, I'll just swap it out again

 

Would a 2:1 scale look noticably worse?

[Shiv78]

Changing displays to a different display that isn't designed for your laptop won't work very well. Playing games on a native 1080p vs 1080p on a 4K will be much better; playing on lower resolutions doesn't look very good.

 

1080p is 1/4, not 1/2 of 4K by the way. 2K is cinematic 1080, not 1920x1080

[iamdarkyoshi]

6 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

1080p is 1/4, not 1/2 of 4K by the way. 2K is cinematic 1080, not 1920x1080

I know its 1/4 the pixel count, but each individual resolution is exactly half. I meant to write 2k in quotation marks

 

Anyway I'm pretty sure the laptop will work with it. Both use an eDP interface.

[Mira Yurizaki]

From my experience, using lower resolution than the native one for a monitor doesn't look ugly as long as you don't go below the 96 PPI mark (which is what's considered 100%). I have a 4K 27" monitor and playing games at 1440p on it doesn't seem to have any noticeable ugliness because 1440p is the "standard" resolution for 27" monitors.

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24 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

So I've got a laptop at work with a 4K dispkay (well, 3840x2160) and if I run at half the resolution for demanding games, I'll have exactly 1920x1080. But for normal use, I can use it at 4K or on games with lower demands, 4k.

 

Good idea/bad idea? Assuming the laptop works with it, I'd assume it would. If not, I'll just swap it out again

 

Would a 2:1 scale look noticably worse?

It kinda depends on the screen size...

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, NoNamer12345 said:

It kinda depends on the screen size...

15.6in

[Tedster]

Running games at 2560x1440 would be terrible because of the horrible upscaling that you'd need to do?

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, Tedster said:

Running games at 2560x1440 would be terrible because of the horrible upscaling that you'd need to do?

I can't really run games at 1440p with a GTX 960M, but 1080p is fine. So with a 4K display, I could run games at 1080p with a perfect 1:2 scale

[Tedster]

12 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I can't really run games at 1440p with a GTX 960M, but 1080p is fine. So with a 4K display, I could run games at 1080p with a perfect 1:2 scale

I guess, it's just that the title says 2k...

[iamdarkyoshi]

38 minutes ago, Tedster said:

I guess, it's just that the title says 2k...

I was making a SLIGHT joke, because half of 4k is 2k, Half of 3840 is 1920, half of 2160 is 1080

[Shiv78]

5 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I was making a SLIGHT joke, because half of 4k is 2k, Half of 3840 is 1920, half of 2160 is 1080

1/2 times 1/2 = 1/4. 2K is an actual resolution (2048x1080) and is NOT 2560x1440 or even 1920x1080.