How to get 4K pictures? or improve texture quality?

[consisting]

Sorry if I seem ignorant, but I honestly am.

So, my screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 and this is as high as it goes.
My video card is an Nvidia GeForce 1050 Ti.

Is it possible for me to make 4K pictures? or how do I otherwise improve the quality? Right now my screenshots from the in-game camera button are 1920 x 1080 and less than 2mb when I set screenshot quality to high. It seems like texture quality on objects is sometimes better based on screenshots I've seen, but perhaps I won't get that unless I am able to save as 4K eh?

Thanks for reading

[𝕰𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆]

I have seem some videos in YouTube about this. If you have a chance take a look at some of them. Maybe that give you an idea.

[1stKaiser]

The short answer: you need a 4K monitor if you want to go 4K.

The longer answer: Your 1050Ti should have performance settings to help improve your quality. Create a settings profile for FlowScape only. Now you can play with settings & test. One thing to test is a setting called DSR - Factors. You can set it to as high as 4x the native resolution. It captures more detail into your shots and post-processes it to fit your native 1080p resolution. It isn't going to be 4K, but it will improve your experience if your FPS/GPU can afford it.

Since you have that card, you should be able to use Nvidia Ansel as well. Be sure to take advantage of that.

[pixelforestgames]

In settings there is screenshot resolution. goes up to 4x your native resolution, so 8k

[consisting]

Originally posted by 1stKaiser:

The short answer: you need a 4K monitor if you want to go 4K.

The longer answer: Your 1050Ti should have performance settings to help improve your quality. Create a settings profile for FlowScape only. Now you can play with settings & test. One thing to test is a setting called DSR - Factors. You can set it to as high as 4x the native resolution. It captures more detail into your shots and post-processes it to fit your native 1080p resolution. It isn't going to be 4K, but it will improve your experience if your FPS/GPU can afford it.

Since you have that card, you should be able to use Nvidia Ansel as well. Be sure to take advantage of that.

Thanks Kaiser I will try to look into this! I found the performance settings for my video card but DSR factors are not listed, maybe I will try updating drivers and software at some point. I'll play around with it.

[consisting]

Originally posted by pixelforestgames:

In settings there is screenshot resolution. goes up to 4x your native resolution, so 8k

I did find that, and I think somehow I turned that off, so I turned it back on. So while it is "8k" some of the grasses and plants still look a bit jagged to me or something. I feel like some screenshots I see on Reddit or here are just really amazing while mine don't always render as nicely. I'm thinking it is just a hardware limitation perhaps

[consisting]

Originally posted by 𝐸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒶:

I have seem some videos in YouTube about this. If you have a chance take a look at some of them. Maybe that give you an idea.

Thanks Eterna, I ended up finding some other tutorials for controls that I didn't know existed, really helpful!

[1stKaiser]

Thanks Kaiser I will try to look into this! I found the performance settings for my video card but DSR factors are not listed, maybe I will try updating drivers and software at some point. I'll play around with it.

Sure thing. You can also download Nvidia Inspector to get access to grayed out & hidden settings. This is advanced, however, so you'll have to do a lot of testing - but you can get more out of your card if you invest the time.

[pixelforestgames]

The plants will look lower res, as that has to have a cutout shader on it and they are not anti aliased. Just so you are aware, the screenshot resolution is not saved per session. Thats because if it is higher than your system can handle, it will crash. For now i figured the safe option is to keep it at the default 1080p.

So you have a few options.

1. if its set to 4x it will capture 4 times your current resolution, so if you have a 4k monitor or even tv, you can then output 16k images (if your card can handle it)

2. Use your graphics super sampling to upscale

3. Play with your Graphics cards advanced settings, there may be AA and image quality options you can adjust

4. Use Ansel if you have an Nvidia card, you can access it with ALT F2, in there is super resolution, you can try that. It basically takes a lot of screenshots and then stitches them together. Sometimes it works some times it does a bad job, but its there if you want to try it.

for a great quality image, capture it higher than you need and then downscale it in an image app, which gives you a nice smooth image

[consisting]

Originally posted by pixelforestgames:

The plants will look lower res, as that has to have a cutout shader on it and they are not anti aliased. Just so you are aware, the screenshot resolution is not saved per session. Thats because if it is higher than your system can handle, it will crash. For now i figured the safe option is to keep it at the default 1080p.

So you have a few options.

1. if its set to 4x it will capture 4 times your current resolution, so if you have a 4k monitor or even tv, you can then output 16k images (if your card can handle it)

2. Use your graphics super sampling to upscale

3. Play with your Graphics cards advanced settings, there may be AA and image quality options you can adjust

4. Use Ansel if you have an Nvidia card, you can access it with ALT F2, in there is super resolution, you can try that. It basically takes a lot of screenshots and then stitches them together. Sometimes it works some times it does a bad job, but its there if you want to try it.

for a great quality image, capture it higher than you need and then downscale it in an image app, which gives you a nice smooth image

Thank you for the additional tips!