Anyone went 1440p/4k and is unimpressed?

[regulus]

I finally gone and bought a 4k TV. I wasn't looking for a 4k TV specifically but I managed to snag a great deal on a 40' one and brought her home.

Excitedly I hooked it up to the PC and fired up The Witcher 3. It didn't want to load ...

Ok never you mind, I loaded GTAV and went to the settings and pushed it to 4k. Now, I have a 980GTX, not space alien technology but I would've expected it to run better than it did. I had to turn a heap of settings down and while there was a noticeable difference in resolution, hardly enough to warrant the hype. I changed it to 1440p and it ran much better with settings a bit higher. I couldn't see much, if any difference over 1080p.

The same case for a few other games. 4k and it turns to a crawl. I tested for about an hour, gave up and went back to 1080p. If I bought this for 4k specifically I would've felt really really done over.

Anyone else find the same thing?

 

[regulus]

Sadly you picked two of the most demanding PC titles to try and play at 4k, so no wonder you are unimpressed, especially with a single GPU. Try something that runs well at those settings like alien isolation and enjoy

Just remembered I bought that on the Steam summer sale.

Had a go and if I'm completely honest, I didn't see any difference over gaming at 1080p. In theory I should've as there's more pixels around, but it just weren't making me go WOW! But you're right, it did run much much better.

On the Windows desktop there's a good difference and going back to 1080 as my desktop resolution made my eyes hurt for a second. So yea, that might be worth keeping at 4k but as far as gaming goes, I'll stick to my trusty 27' and stick the TV in one of the rooms.

 

[regulus]

What is it like as a 4K TV?

Nice actually. Was just looking to buy a normal TV (as in 1080p) when I was told of someone in financial dire straights and looking to sell a TV asap. Imagine my surprise when I found out it's 4k!

Not that I'm aware of any 4k content out there so

 

[regulus]

you picked up a budget 4k tv to play pc games no wonder you were left unimpressed. your ips monitor will be better for that. Try a 4k ips monitor

Nah mate, funny that you should mention an IPS panel. One caught my eye today when I was in my local computer store. It was an Asus 27' (4k). Looked really good but truth be told, so did the 27' 1080p next to it.

Like I said, I didn't go out looking for a 4k gaming monitor, I went looking for a TV and had a go using it as a 4k monitor.

 

[regulus]

You're not unimpressed, you just made the mistake of not having a system to decently perform @ 4k and are misplacing your judgments on it.

Also, are you really running 1080p on a 4k monitor? I'm not familiar with any sort of scaling tech but won't that look extremely ugly compared to native?

No, I'm using 1080p on my Asus 27' monitor. I plugged the PC in to the TV to use it as a 4k monitor which didn't pan out too well. So I unplugged it again and went back to my PC monitor.

Hope this clears things up