Gaming on a 4K monitor at half the resolution?
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If you have a 1080p monitor, try 720p on it - it'll be almost exactly like that I expect.
If you can't do that to gauge how it should look, be assured that it should be exactly the same as playing at 1080p on the same size screen. The reason for this is that it will have full pixel representation, except instead of 1 rendered pixel being represented by 1 physical pixel, each rendered pixel will be represented by 4 physical pixels.
If you can't do that to gauge how it should look, be assured that it should be exactly the same as playing at 1080p on the same size screen. The reason for this is that it will have full pixel representation, except instead of 1 rendered pixel being represented by 1 physical pixel, each rendered pixel will be represented by 4 physical pixels.
That's what you would hope. But from what I've been reading, it sounds like the scalers in the monitors aren't that clever.
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Or better still scale it to 1440p.
This was one of the reasons why I went for the dell p2415q for my 4k upgrade (aside from lack of desk space) being 24" asking it to run at 1920x1080 still looks pretty decent. The scaler built into the monitor is pretty good by all accounts compared to other monitors.
So are you playing games at 1920x1080 then?
At the minute I am playing a lot of dota2 and WoW, both of which run fine at 2160p no problems and look great for it.
More demanding stuff which my 970 can't hack at 4k I drop the resolution, I run BF4 at 1440p and evolve at 1080p.
More demanding stuff which my 970 can't hack at 4k I drop the resolution, I run BF4 at 1440p and evolve at 1080p.
Hey Folks - also considering the p2415q and u2515h and stuck at which to choose.
My setup consists of 3 x U2311H @ 1080p in eyefinity and I wanted to add a 4th monitor for watching films, browsing when playing across 3 x screens and also periodically running eyefinity on 4 screens with the fourth monitor running in 1080p.
Therefore I'm also concerned about loss of quality when scaling 1080p on a 1440p or 4k display, another concern was if 4k on a 24" display is worthwhile or 1440p a better choice...
Ready to hit the button today so edging towards the U2515H at the moment but don't want to miss out on 4K if it is that good.
Currently have 2 x 290s in Crossfire.
My setup consists of 3 x U2311H @ 1080p in eyefinity and I wanted to add a 4th monitor for watching films, browsing when playing across 3 x screens and also periodically running eyefinity on 4 screens with the fourth monitor running in 1080p.
Therefore I'm also concerned about loss of quality when scaling 1080p on a 1440p or 4k display, another concern was if 4k on a 24" display is worthwhile or 1440p a better choice...
Ready to hit the button today so edging towards the U2515H at the moment but don't want to miss out on 4K if it is that good.
Currently have 2 x 290s in Crossfire.
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Even though it should be possible to get a completely sharp image when showing a 1080p image on a 2160p screen, the scaler will still apply its normal upscaling methods (some sort if interpolation) which are designed to strike a balance between accuracy and smoothness of the resulting image. This is normally preferred in most instances, but where the scaling factor is say x4 or x9, it's better to just map 1 pixel to 4 pixel or 1 pixel to 9 pixels, etc as this would give a perfect representation of the original image, without and any smoothing.
I'll just leave a few thoughts on the p2415q,
I made the upgrade from a 1080p TN panel and the dell absolutely blows it away in terms of colour and image quality, my missus also uses the PC for photo editing when I'm not gaming and she loves it as well.
The pixel density is amazing, games which I can run at native resolution look amazing, even games like DOTA 2 and WoW look great and personally I feel that I can get away without needing any anti-aliasing settings when running at 4k.
So far (aside from the GPU power required to run AAA titles at 4k) the only real problems I have with using the p22415q is the scaling in certain applications. Windows 7 with the dpi scaling set to 175% works really well for me. My main gripe is with steam, which is utterly terrible at 4k, nothing scales and end up being 1/4 the size of what it should be, making chat windows almost impossible to read!
I made the upgrade from a 1080p TN panel and the dell absolutely blows it away in terms of colour and image quality, my missus also uses the PC for photo editing when I'm not gaming and she loves it as well.
The pixel density is amazing, games which I can run at native resolution look amazing, even games like DOTA 2 and WoW look great and personally I feel that I can get away without needing any anti-aliasing settings when running at 4k.
So far (aside from the GPU power required to run AAA titles at 4k) the only real problems I have with using the p22415q is the scaling in certain applications. Windows 7 with the dpi scaling set to 175% works really well for me. My main gripe is with steam, which is utterly terrible at 4k, nothing scales and end up being 1/4 the size of what it should be, making chat windows almost impossible to read!
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Have you tried steam in Big picture mode? would be interesting to see how in scales in that. Obviously no good when you're on the desktop but in-game it could be handy.
Thanks Daz - ordered a U2515H now as I couldn't really justify the £100 difference of the 4K plus I think it might be overkill for me
Will see how I get on with the 1440p and I guess I can always sell it at a later stage and upgrade to the 4K....
Hoping I made the right decision
