Monitors at lower resolutions than native?
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Soldato
Set your monitor to 1024x768 and I'll bet it's blurry.
Associate
Why doesn't that sound right?
If you're monitor is meant to be 1920 x 1080 and you're running it at 1280 x 720 then of course it would be blurrier. Why not check for yourself?
Soldato
if you run a monitor below its native resolution then yes there is a chance it will be blurry.
Don
Depends on what resolution the monitor is, what resolution you are running, and how good the scaling settings of your monitor are.
E.g. running a 4k (3840x2160) monitor at 1920x1080 is fine, as each pixel is just doubled in both directions.
If the resolution doesn't divide evenly, then that is when you potentially end up with blurriness
E.g. running a 4k (3840x2160) monitor at 1920x1080 is fine, as each pixel is just doubled in both directions.
If the resolution doesn't divide evenly, then that is when you potentially end up with blurriness
Oh, so not all lower reses, just ones that don't fit the screen right will be blurry. I am thinking of getting a LG - UltraGear 32GR93U-B, on a vid. it was 2 on a list of top 6 of 2024. My GPU is a RTX 3060ti 8Gig. So no games at native res.
Soldato
You will use the native 4k in windows so there wont be blurriness there, and the only time you will really be using a lower res will be in games and that environment generally doesn't suffer from the same blurriness issues as the desktop would. My handheld is a 1080p display and most games I either run at 720p or 900p without any complaints.
Don
You should be able to use DLSS to upscale to 4K for games that you can't run natively at 4K
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Have zero issues playing older games that don't support the native res on my 1440p, also play CS2 at 1080p on the same monitor due to it now being attached to an older less powerful MITX rig, no blur issues, 720P CS2 does look disgusting, but not blurred.
Must be monitor dependent, but the last 2 AOC 1080P monitors I had hooked up to a 2012 mac mini that I'd dual boot with Windows for older games (that it could run) was fine at 720P.
Must be monitor dependent, but the last 2 AOC 1080P monitors I had hooked up to a 2012 mac mini that I'd dual boot with Windows for older games (that it could run) was fine at 720P.
FYI: back when these monitors were new, hardware sites used to test for it (interpolation) and afaik prad.de still do (e.g. here), but you don't see it many reviews nowadays.
Man of Honour
For text/desktop use yes. If the monitor has a scaler built in then it doesn't matter much as the scaler will sort out most of the issues. Case in point my old LG 34UM95P, a 3440x1440 IPS with a scaler, it looked good at 2560x1080 on the desktop but there was no need to run it at that res on the desktop anyway, but newer games at the time needed to because upscaling didn't exist, so the only way to boost fps was to run at a lower than native res.
Games looked sharp and excellent at that lower res on such a monitor.
Modern screens do not tend to have scalers built in as they add to the cost, but it doesn't matter because we now have upscaling tech from all the main GPU makers so can output at native res whilst internally rendering at a lower res to gain frames with little to no impact to visual quality, and in many cases gain image quality thanks to AI image reconstruction in that pipeline.