can i reduce the viewing area in ALL games?

movingtables · 19 Aug 2018 at 18:35

So i have a 40" 4k TV in my bedroom on a Desk but ...

I was going to buy a gaming PC..
If i was to play counter strike:GO i don't wanna get motion sickness

as i'll be sitting about 1ft away from the screen.
so is there an option in ALL games to reduce the viewing area size: IE- black border all the way around
the game, effectively shrinking the viewing size?

hope that makes sense.

also i'd be running the games at 1920X1080 as i'm only going for a GTX1060
so scaling will be down to the tv (panasonic) as to if they look decent ?

thanks.

Devrij · 19 Aug 2018 at 19:46

movingtables said:
So i have a 40" 4k TV in my bedroom on a Desk but ...

I was going to buy a gaming PC..
If i was to play counter strike:GO i don't wanna get motion sickness as i'll be sitting about 1ft away from the screen.
so is there an option in ALL games to reduce the viewing area size: IE- black border all the way around
the game, effectively shrinking the viewing size?

hope that makes sense.

also i'd be running the games at 1920X1080 as i'm only going for a GTX1060
so scaling will be down to the tv (panasonic) as to if they look decent ?

thanks.

1080p windowed mode is probably your best bet. You can still run your desktop at 4k then.no scaling to worry about

movingtables · 19 Aug 2018 at 19:57

Devrij said:
1080p windowed mode is probably your best bet. You can still run your desktop at 4k then.no scaling to worry about

i thought that may be the option but frames take a hit in windowed mode,hmmmm.
think i'll just get a gaming laptop

jakspyder · 19 Aug 2018 at 22:30

sit back an extra foot.

Minstadave · 19 Aug 2018 at 22:54

Cut out some black paper that fits your monitor with the required window in the centre, apply as needed.

james.miller · 19 Aug 2018 at 23:00

Turn on 1:1 scaling or whatever it's called.on your TV, then run at a lower resolution. Job done.

PinkFloyd · 20 Aug 2018 at 07:38

movingtables said:
i thought that may be the option but frames take a hit in windowed mode,hmmmm.
think i'll just get a gaming laptop

The framerate you'll gain from running 1080p will massively outnumber anything you'd lose from windowed mode, the latter is going to have trivial impact.

james.miller · 20 Aug 2018 at 08:25

you dont need windowed mode at all. just use 1:1 scaling, either on the tv or using the GPU driver. Then you can run games at a lower resolution and the desktop at native resolution.

agnes · 21 Aug 2018 at 00:30

Is this thread a troll? lol