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Will Displaying A Higher Resolution Than 1080p On My 1080p Telly Do It Any Damage..?

thesnowdog1971

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Wasn't sure where to put this question but I thought here was as good a place as any. I'm going to be getting an NVidia GTX 1080 some time during the next couple of months and there's a piece of software that I'm using that needs a higher resolution than 1080p for it to be displayed properly.

If I increase the resolution on my telly to a higher resolution than 1080p for an hour or two at a time will this kill my telly..?

Many thanks in advance for any help or advice. :D
 
It won't work. There are ways to force a higher resolution on a lower resolution screen (either through showing part of the screen or downsampling the input signal), but that doesn't harm the TV/monitor in any way if that's what you're worried.
 
If its a 1080p telly then higher res won't be particularly useful but it shouldn't kill it - or you could use nVidia DSR that does all scaling on the GPU.
 
The GTX 1080 isnt really enough for 4k, and even if you think it is now, it won't be for long. For 4k you would have been better off waiting for the 1080Ti
 
Dont be daft, of course the 1080 card can do 4k, some games very well. Some games you just lower a few settings and you should have decent enough fps.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Dont be daft, of course the 1080 card can do 4k, some games very well. Some games you just lower a few settings and you should have decent enough fps.
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That's really dependent on what kind of framerate you find acceptable - I wouldn't want to be playing at the framerates the 1080 will provide at 4k TODAY let alone in the future when games get more demanding. That said, it sounds like the guy has some specific software in mind that may not be related to gaming, so this might all be a moot point.
 
thesnowdog1971 said:
Wasn't sure where to put this question but I thought here was as good a place as any. I'm going to be getting an NVidia GTX 1080 some time during the next couple of months and there's a piece of software that I'm using that needs a higher resolution than 1080p for it to be displayed properly.

If I increase the resolution on my telly to a higher resolution than 1080p for an hour or two at a time will this kill my telly..?

Many thanks in advance for any help or advice. :D
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No. It will do nothing to your TV. You may even be lucky an it just downscale the incoming signal, if it even allows you to display the higher res in the first place.

Second.. the TV will have a native resolution anyway, and that's the only one you should be using. you gain NOTHING by using a higher resolution. The only thing you can do is us the upscaling feature on your card (if you have this feature) that will help remove jaggies from the image. It will upscale the image, do some fancy stuff, then downscale it again before sending it to the TV in the normal resolution (which is 1080p most likely).

I honestly think you need to get a better understanding of flat panel tech btw.
 
Sampsy said:
That's really dependent on what kind of framerate you find acceptable - I wouldn't want to be playing at the framerates the 1080 will provide at 4k TODAY let alone in the future when games get more demanding. That said, it sounds like the guy has some specific software in mind that may not be related to gaming, so this might all be a moot point.
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Well said, Sampsy.
 
If your going to wait a few years for a 4K telly then the 1080 just won't be sufficient for the games of the future in 4K. It would be like trying to run a 4K game of today in a 980.
 
DSR doesn't really work for desktop productivity use.

Anyone who has tried DSR on the desktop will know what a blurry mess it is, it's only really of use for games.
 
Cooper said:
DSR doesn't really work for desktop productivity use.

Anyone who has tried DSR on the desktop will know what a blurry mess it is, it's only really of use for games.
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Still looks rubbish in a lot of games that I have tried it in - looks nowhere near as crisp and defined as native res. Especially when text is just as blurry in game as it looks on the desktop.
 
Secret_Window said:
Still looks rubbish in a lot of games that I have tried it in - looks nowhere near as crisp and defined as native res. Especially when text is just as blurry in game as it looks on the desktop.
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Somebody needs to learn how to use the 'DSR Smoothness' scaling in the Nvidia control panel.

Use the correct amount and you won't have any issues and everything will look as sharp as it would on a higher res screen.
 
Cooper said:
DSR doesn't really work for desktop productivity use.

Anyone who has tried DSR on the desktop will know what a blurry mess it is, it's only really of use for games.
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Best of the options short of having native res though - 4K to 1080p doesn't look too bad but it is far from native res.
 
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