how to downscale 1080p 144hz to 720p 144hz

[overturnedv1]

so in games i like the feel of 720p better than 1080 for some reason. but when i go to nvidia and make a custom resolution, set it to 1280x720 and 144hz, letters and details are very blurry. why is this? 

[overturnedv1]

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[overturnedv1]

also the color for 1080p is way more vibrant 

[Tylerebowers]

because you are putting 1280 x 720 pixels into a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

[overturnedv1]

 

52 minutes ago, Tyleredbowers said:

because you are putting 1280 x 720 pixels into a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

but i know someone who has it like this. also i use to use  1600x900 on the same monitor and it wasnt blurry.

[Tylerebowers]

try the windows monitor configuring tool, or set the resolution in games.

[Tylerebowers]

by lowering the resolution you are forcing every 25 pixels to be combined into 16 pixels, that's why it looks blurry.

[overturnedv1]

56 minutes ago, Tyleredbowers said:

try the windows monitor configuring tool, or set the resolution in games.

windows monitor tool? where can i find it?

[Tylerebowers]

Just now, overturnedv1 said:

windows monitor tool? where can i find it?

in the windows search bar type display

[Unimaginative Name]

Think about it this way. I have a 1440p monitor, which is exactly twice the size of a 720p monitor. It has 3,686,400 pixels, each one with their own distinct color. When you downscale 1440p to 720p, you effectively have 921,600 pixels, meaning that you effectively have 1/4 of the pixels. You take four 1440p pixels and average the color value between them and assign that average to those four pixels. You now have 1/4 the pixels and 4x the pixel size. That's why large TV's are generally 4K (now) or 1080p (then) and even 1080p ones look blurry close-up. Each pixel has to be very large, that's why display scaling on large displays often looks really weird, each pixel is effectively much larger and displaying less information.  For your case, it's even weirder, because you're trying to scale 1080p to 720p, the aspects don't scale to a perfect square so the result is that interpolation happens.

 

 

This video explains it pretty well. There really isn't much you can do. Native resolutions almost always look better.

[chckovsky]

If you prefer 720p over 1080p, it might be that your comuputer can pump out more frames per second, giving you lower frame times and a smoother gameplay experience. You haven't stated your PC specs, but if your PC isn't top notch, I'd say this is more than likely the case, as it's a lot less taxing on a computer to render frames in 720p than 1080p.

 

If you like the added performance or just like to game on a smaller screen estate, go to NVIDIA control panel. First set your custom resolution to 1280x720, then select the "adjust desktop size and position" (something like that, my Windows isn't in english). Set the scaling to 1280x720, select the option for "no scaling", then select the option execute the scaling on the graphics card (not on the screen). To me, certain games, especially older ones, simply don't look good when blown up to a large screen, even with a big resolution, and I have used this with success in certain games.