Sacrifice Resolution to play a game?

[Wwadsworth]

Just a curious question, are there any gamers out there that would turn the resolution of a game down to like 720p to play a game on an old piece of hardware? I am building a PC here in the next few days and I can't afford the 1060 6GB or RX 480/580 because of the current mining craze. So I'm just going to get a cheap GPU to play games at 720p until I can get something for 1080p..... will that discourage my experience? 

 

Currently play on a 4 year old laptop with a 640m with res to 720p and getting about 15-20 fps for an hour before the laptop crashes... playing games like Darksiders. Awesome story so far BTW reminds me a bit of Legend of Zelda. 

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Wwadsworth said:

Legend of Zelda. 

not even close, legend of zelda is much better in every way.   

budget? 

[Techicolors]

nothing wrong with reducing settings. PC gaming allows you to do such things. tho i wished 1060s and 480/580 were in stock... it's really bad at the moment, so i can feel the frustration 

[ProjectBox153]

Turning the resolution down wouldn't really matter too much, as long as the monitor handles the scaling properly. The best way to do something like that is use an older, cheap monitor that has a native resolution of whatever lower resolution you're looking for. That way you won't have the weird looks of a lower resolution on a higher resolution monitor.

[Daniel644]

I would wait, honestly it makes no sense to buy (even used) a cheap GPU just to swap it out for another one, in the end that just costs more money because good luck reselling the old GPU for what you pay for it.

[Wwadsworth]

13 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

not even close, legend of zelda is much better in every way.   

budget? 

$850. Emphasis on the Ryzen platform for the workstation aspect for my wife who edits photo's and videos for events. 

I do agree though LoZ is better in a lot of ways I just said it reminds me of it a bit.

[Wwadsworth]

9 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

I would wait, honestly it makes no sense to buy (even used) a cheap GPU just to swap it out for another one, in the end that just costs more money because good luck reselling the old GPU for what you pay for it.

I need a GPU though since Ryzen doesn't have integrated graphics. I can always recycle the GPU too (Probable a 1050) when I build my mother a new PC that is 8 years old.

[Wwadsworth]

14 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Turning the resolution down wouldn't really matter too much, as long as the monitor handles the scaling properly. The best way to do something like that is use an older, cheap monitor that has a native resolution of whatever lower resolution you're looking for. That way you won't have the weird looks of a lower resolution on a higher resolution monitor.

Yeah any lower than 720p and my characters head is chopped off for some reason ha-ha. Any advice on cooling a laptop? I have a fan pointed at the laptop and it elevated on the corners to help ventilation but it still runs at 90 and after about 20-30 minutes of shuts off. 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Wwadsworth said:

Yeah any lower than 720p and my characters head is chopped off for some reason ha-ha. Any advice on cooling a laptop? I have a fan pointed at the laptop and it elevated on the corners to help ventilation but it still runs at 90 and after about 20-30 minutes of shuts off. 

Other than opening it to replace the thermal paste and clean the dust out, nothing much really. You could use it in a freezer. Just kidding, don't put your laptop in a freezer, especially while running.

[Dwwop]

@WwadsworthCheck craiglist or similar site before u make your final choice. There's a guy selling Asus Rog Strix gtx 1060 o6gb for 180€ after half a yoear of using it. Check these sites

[Wwadsworth]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

1) Darksiders is a brawler hack and slash game where Zelda is an action RPG with hack and slash elements.

 

2) How much are you looking to spend and what location/currency?

I'm looking to spend about $850 in US dollar

[Wwadsworth]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

You could probably get a 1080ti and call it a day.   

Oh this is for the whole build not just the GPU. 

[Bananasplit_00]

I have played a lot at 720p on my laptop and on the LAN PC, I don't mind it usually. It's not great and I prefer my 1440p screen at home but there is nothing wrong with good ol standard HD if you have too

[Dwwop]

@Wwadsworth Check this build:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bnBB3F

 

You can save a buck on the case and you will go under 850. And don't worry the temps on the GC are under 75°C even on high load

[typographie]

I would turn off absolutely anything and everything else before I resorted to lowering the render resolution below your monitor's native. Dropping your resolution makes games look truly wretched, like you're going back to the original Playstation.

 

And I really don't think saying Darksiders (1, at least) is a similar sort of game to the Legend of Zelda is that controversial a statement. It's obviously inspired by Zelda-style RPGs.