Running 1080p games on 4k monitor

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Hi Everyone,

I've recently got into PC gaming and want some advice. I bought a bundle off my friend, it consisted of a PC, monitor and everything i need for now.

The PC has a GTX 970 GPU, Intel i7 4790k CPU and an acer predator 4k moniotor (XB281HK).

i'd like to run games at 1080p and higher frame rate however the picture quality isn't great. At 4k its beautiful but frame rates are inconsistent. I mainly play Apex and a few other titles. Is there anything I can do to run at 1080p without butchering the quality?

I am new to all this so any help would be great.

Thanks
 
1920 x 1080 is going to look rough
Because it's a 28 inch monitor
Personally 24 inch is the biggest screen 1080p
Should be seen on
Try setting 2560 x 1440 resolution and see if that helps
A gtx970 should cope with 1440p though depending on the game might need to turn down some settings
 
Radeon image sharpening would solve this issue - rendering at a lower resolution and then upscaling to 4k.

I don’t know the Nvidia equivalent, sorry.

Edit: you could also run in Window mode - that would be like using a 24” monitor!
 
Radeon image sharpening would solve this issue - rendering at a lower resolution and then upscaling to 4k.

I don’t know the Nvidia equivalent,





Edit: you could also run in Window mode - that would be like using a 24” monitor!



It's called nvidia DSR chris

Never tried it so no idea of how much performance hit it causes
But you are right it's worth trying anyway
 
You’re right! I’m thinking of Trixx boost that utilises Radeon Image Sharpening.

it’s for exactly this use case.

i can’t find an Nvidia equivalent
 
As said could try DSR upscale to 4k

Or try 2560 x 1440
If that doesn't look too bad then the gtx970 is still a card capable of decent 1440p play
Might need to lower some settings but I remember playing witcher 3 on a gtx970 at 1440p pretty well
 
DSR is basically what the SuperSampling was in the past, the game will render at the RES internally but output to a lower RES monitor like 1440p on a 1080p monitor to make it look little better or remove a CPU bottleneck.

The Frames hit will be nearly the same as if you were at 1440p on a 1440p monitor.

Smoothness is a separate setting related to it and right bellow it in the NVCP but I leave it default 33%
 
DSR is basically what the SuperSampling was in the past, the game will render at the RES internally but output to a lower RES monitor like 1440p on a 1080p monitor to make it look little better or remove a CPU bottleneck.

The Frames hit will be nearly the same as if you were at 1440p on a 1440p monitor.

Smoothness is a separate setting related to it and right bellow it in the NVCP but I leave it default 33%

huh - Trixx boost does the opposite; render at a lower rea than the monitor and then upscale to improve performance.
 
huh - Trixx boost does the opposite; render at a lower rea than the monitor and then upscale to improve performance.

And look like poop, I advise you look up SuperSampling to learn what it is, some games still do this but call it (insert word here) Scaling < I cannot remember the name/term, you will see two RES option in the game menus.
 
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