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Is 4K (or below) good enough for you?
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Yep. 1080 is good enough for me to be honest. I like 4k in games, but it's far from essential, I'd rather the extra resources went into framerate or fancy graphics.
1080p is good enough for me. 4k is more than enough for me. Resolution beyond 1080p is the least interesting aspect of an image to me.
I can still handle SD. The way I see it, bragging about being able to only handle 4K or higher is akin to bragging about a bizarre handicap.
1440p or higher is fine with me as long as peformance is above 40 fps and the visuals justify it. Anything lower is too low of a resolution for my bad eyes.
Hell 1080p is good enough for me. Yes I finally got a 4k tv and if games can run on it at 4k I'm not stopping it. Still if a game or movie is under 4k I don't really care. I don't pay extra for 4k Netflix and I can easily watch sports that are shown at 720. I manage and it's fine.
1440p to 2160p is perfect. Lower is blurred on my tv, higher is an absurd waste of resources. 1440/60/RT would be the optimal.
Playing anything at a locked 4 K without compromise just cannot be beat. However, even on the best hardware, that's not always possible. MS developed games on PC seems to have no trouble with this.
I thought 2K = 1440p?
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I can't play on anything under 32k. I've had to stop playing video games all together until technology catches up with my eyes. Once I realized that 4K times 2 is 8k, then 8k times 2 is 16k then 16k times 2 was 32k... I just can't fathom how anyone could bare to look at anything else. I mean imagine realizing that 4K isn't the limit and STILL thinking 4K is good enough. It's so blurry, I mean if I can't make out the individual atoms in a strand of hair it's literally unplayable.
With a 4K tv and a 1440p monitor, 1080p is a little too low nowadays. I can play at 180p, all right (well, I do play PS2 games at their native res from time to time), but the problems in the image are immediately noticeable.
1440p is just fine though, even at the 4k TV. And then I can't really see a difference between 1800p and native 4k. I drop the resolution to 1800p even in games my card can run at 4k, just so it runs colder, consumes less power and leaves some more power available if the game eventually requires it at some point.
1440p is just fine though, even at the 4k TV. And then I can't really see a difference between 1800p and native 4k. I drop the resolution to 1800p even in games my card can run at 4k, just so it runs colder, consumes less power and leaves some more power available if the game eventually requires it at some point.
I thought 2K = 1440p?
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Nope
I've never owned a UHD panel so FHD is all I know. I've never felt the urge to upgrade though, so yes? It's good enough for me.
Although, I did just get a PS5 and will probably upgrade for that. It's a lot more powerful than my PC hardware and now that console games are running at higher resolutions, now's the time to upgrade. Kinda got a reason to upgrade now.
I imagine for me specifically as all I've ever really played on the last decade is 24-27inch FHD monitors that the jump will be quite big going to a 4k monitor.
Although, I did just get a PS5 and will probably upgrade for that. It's a lot more powerful than my PC hardware and now that console games are running at higher resolutions, now's the time to upgrade. Kinda got a reason to upgrade now.
I imagine for me specifically as all I've ever really played on the last decade is 24-27inch FHD monitors that the jump will be quite big going to a 4k monitor.
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It would be nice to have a few generations of focusing on higher framerates and/or graphical settings. Though I can pretend to live in that world on PC at least lol.
Fair points.
Because people buying new TVs now are probably getting 4K by default due to how cheap it's becoming, so adoption grows. And because stuff is already starting to be marketed for 8K or at least as 8K compatible.
Man it's crazy how some of y'all are so put off by the idea of asking people if they are content with what they have before the huge marketing blitz for the next thing begins.
Depends on the screen size, though there are many other factors. I've seen games that look blurry on a 4K TV, but I've also seen 1080p games that look sharp. It depends on the AA solution and some other things, I guess.
First of all, I think every UI needs to be 4K for next gen games. That I can notice - and it usually doesn't look good on a 4K TV. As for gameplay itself, I'd say something between 4K and 1080p is quite enough. Also, checkerboard rendering and similar techniques are just great.
I don't think games should be "real 4K" this generation on consoles and I see little benefit in it - but I also think they should be above 1080p. Again, this is for 4K TVs with large screen sizes. A 1080p gaming monitor is fine, but things look different there.
As for 8K, I can only see the benefit in some TV-based upscaling to make a 4K image slightly sharper in some ways (and these TVs come with nice upscalers). As for actual 8K content - that is not something we need for a long while (until, one day, the performance cost is so low, that it falls into "why not" category - which won't be anytime soon.)
First of all, I think every UI needs to be 4K for next gen games. That I can notice - and it usually doesn't look good on a 4K TV. As for gameplay itself, I'd say something between 4K and 1080p is quite enough. Also, checkerboard rendering and similar techniques are just great.
I don't think games should be "real 4K" this generation on consoles and I see little benefit in it - but I also think they should be above 1080p. Again, this is for 4K TVs with large screen sizes. A 1080p gaming monitor is fine, but things look different there.
As for 8K, I can only see the benefit in some TV-based upscaling to make a 4K image slightly sharper in some ways (and these TVs come with nice upscalers). As for actual 8K content - that is not something we need for a long while (until, one day, the performance cost is so low, that it falls into "why not" category - which won't be anytime soon.)
55 and lower, 1440p and 1080p is perfectly fine. I think 4k doesn't really matter all that much until you get 65 and above. On a 27 monitor, 1080p is way more than enough. 8k is useless and I don't see the early hype. Would need like a 82 and above to even matter.
1080p is enough for me. So when my 27" monitor dies I will just buy another one at the same resolution but with more than 144 Hz.
For now it is okay. In several years we will likely start pushing more towards 8K or 4K but with much higher refresh rate.
Even at 4K we still need to do antialiasing trickery to make things look nicer. At 8K, that more or less is not a thing anymore.
Even at 4K we still need to do antialiasing trickery to make things look nicer. At 8K, that more or less is not a thing anymore.
I'm all for the advancement of resolution as things like VR will benefit greater, but 4K is still really hard to pull off in an open world game with all the bells and whistles. 8K, outside of a select few titles on very expensive hardware, is a novelty. 4 years from now though, sure!
Yes... I don't have the media or the machine to even properly enjoy 4K (and not even talk about the $$$ aspect). 1080p is fine for me at the moment.
Just upgraded to 4K gaming on my 3080 a couple weeks ago and I absolutely can't even look at 1440p, much less 1080p on this new monitor.
Not sure I need 8K, but Cyberpunk in 4K at near 60fps on ultra raytracing feels properly next-gen.
Not sure I need 8K, but Cyberpunk in 4K at near 60fps on ultra raytracing feels properly next-gen.
scaling res isn't useless you get way cleaner lines and better fx to say the least. reduces shimmering as well. This vid makes it clear at about 10:30 and beyond of the benefit.
You don't need 82" either to take advantage of downsampling, unless your monitor is utter shit in DPI there are benefits. Whether people want to pay for them is another matter.
At this point in gaming if you got the extra power why not. I say this about to test a 3rd party DSR tool for 10-14k on 3080 in older games.
