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  • moody@lemmings.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t play a lot of AAA games, but ngl I’m quite happy gaming at 1080p on my 27" monitors.

    I get way better framerates, and it still looks plenty good with maxed out graphics, as long as I’m not sticking my face right up against the screen.

    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Have you actually tried 4k though? Yes, framerates are lower, but boy does it look better. For me, and it’s that’s just my take on it, 1080p ends at 24" monitors.

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Same. Honestly my eyes aren’t good enough to notice a difference between 1080p and 1440p (or 4k) at the scale of my pc monitor, but I damn sure notice a difference between 60 fps and 200 fps…

    • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      5 months ago

      Glad it works for you. Since I upgraded to a 1440p monitor (I still have the same GPU) I went from comfortable high-ultra settings to mid-high settings + FSR Quality in more demanding titles. From the games I played in both 1080p and 1440p, I’d say that less GPU-intensive titles definitely look better in high-res, but I found the overall experience quite whelming.

      Simply playing on a higher res monitor won’t necessarily give you better visuals if you don’t have the GPU power to match settings, however at that point it’s not “higher res = better visuals” but “more powerful PC = better visuals” which, duh, of course it will look better.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Well there’s your problem, you wanted better resolution but didn’t match it with a GPU upgrade.

        Gotta have both or you’ll suffer a bit of loss.

      • moody@lemmings.world
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        5 months ago

        That’s basically the feeling I get. I’ve been gaming on PC since the days of CRT monitors that could run many different resolutions. The tradeoff was always quality vs resolution vs framerate, but nowadays LCD/LED monitors have a fixed native resolution, so that’s one factor to take out of the equation. Nobody wants to play games at a non-native resolution.