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Poll: What Do You Do? Resolution v IQ

What Do You Do?

  • Turn the resolution down till it's playable

    Votes: 10 5.7%

  • Turn quality options down till it's playable

    Votes: 101 58.0%

  • Buy a new GPU

    Votes: 63 36.2%
  • Total voters
    174
I like your thinking, unfortunately I think she will notice my old 21" Hanns.G has become a sleek sexy new 27" Samsung 950 when she comes into the study
 
If it's more than one game then i would buy a new gpu. I don't do compromises!! :D

In reality though, i upgrade so often it's not a issue in the first place.
 
Last I knew IQ tends to impact performance more than resolution.


If its a single player game with limited replay I would just lower the IQ.

If its a multiplayer online game I will tend to play it more and as they require higher and more consistent fps so I will never have ultra high IQ that adds little to a fast paced game.
If lowering the IQ fails to get playable multiplayer fps on a game I play lots, then I would upgrade.
 
I'd turn the quality down.....while browsing for a new graphics card.

I'm a sucker for playing things as they're meant to look :D

Thankfully a 580 should be good for a while yet since I only game in x1080
 
If I find something that I can't run to my satisfaction, I'll usually put it on the back burner until the next generation of GPUs :D (metro 2033 being the only game on that list for me right now). I'll certainly turn off specific resource-gobbling features to boost framerate (like tessellation and DOF in metro for example), but I don't like turning down detail levels en-masse, and would rather just wait for the hardware to catch up before I play it.

Turning down resolution is a big no on LCD screens. I tried playing metro at 1920*1200 for a while, but everything looks blurred and smudged when it's scaled down from native.
 
I already do this with Crysis Warhead and Crysis 2, native res is 1080p but my rig struggles to maintain a decent framerate so I jump down to 1600x900 or at a push 1280x720.
 
Buy a new card :D

To be fair I buy a new card every generation for the last three anyway, 9800>5850>xfire6950's>580>Kepler.

Winzorz :D
 
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