Game does not upscale resolution above 1080p. Any help?

[Psychonaut]

So I've had this issue ever since I upgraded to a 1440p monitor, since at least June last year.

The problem is that CS does not actually increase the resolution of the game when selecting 2560x1440. In fact, it's literally just 1920x1080, except it says it's 2560x1440 in the options menu. This results in the game looking blurry and it's pretty much unplayable.

This is also a historical issue:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/changing-resolution-doesnt-do-anything.842387/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/resolution-does-not-change.1027560/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/3840-x-1600-resolution-not-supported.1037174/

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/max-resolution-issue.986238/

Things I've tried:

Forcing DX9

Enabling the 'Dynamic Resolution' mod

Choosing optimal settings and reverting in Nvidia Geforce Experience

Disabling my 1080p second monitor and only using the 1440p monitor

Playing around with windowed and fullscreen resolutions (in DX11 and DX9)

Changing refresh rates on monitor

Changing native resolution on monitor and swapping back

However, none of these actually work. If by any miracle, someone has figured how to get 1440p to work properly for this game, please grace us all with how you managed to fix it. I'm craving this game again.

(edit) Tried doing '-popupwindow -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width [your-desired-width] -screen-height [your-desired-height] '

With 2560x1440, still just uses 1080p, except I can no longer change the resolution around in-game (reverts to 2560x1440, but still looks like it's 1080p) so this fix does NOT work

Also attempted turning off all Windows 10 game functionality and steam overlay support, changes nothing

I've also tried:

--noWorkshop
-popupwindow
-force-d3d9
-adapter 0 (to force game to open on my native 1440p monitor)
-force-gfx-direct
-force-glcore30 (thinking it's a DX issue)

None of these have worked

[MarkJohnson]

I don't seem to have any issues.

Try temporarily launching the game with --noWorkshop for test. Report or results.

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

I don't seem to have any issues.

Try temporarily launching the game with --noWorkshop for test. Report or results.

That did nothing sadly

[Huperspace]

try SHIFT(WIN)/ALT(MAC) at startup or use -show-screen-selector. and set your settings
have you disabled DPI scaling

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

try SHIFT(WIN)/ALT(MAC) at startup or use -show-screen-selector. and set your settings
have you disabled DPI scaling

Shift and the Windows key on game startup does nothing, I'm using the -show-screen-selector for the game launch settings, but nothing has changed. Am I doing that correctly?

I do not have DPI scaling enabled, and do not have any windows scaling settings enabled

This literally only happens with this game, all other games work fine in 1440p

[Psychonaut]

What I've also found is that forcing a resolution via Steam will work up until the game's main menu. The logos before game start are actually in 1440p, however it seems to revert back to in-game settings when done.

[Psychonaut]

bump

[Psychonaut]

bump

[MonkehMaster]

edited...

game runs fine for me in 1080p and up, everything under those resolutions are "blurry" (full screen, dx11, win 7 pro), may still be a gpu driver issue on your end.

you should post your specs when asking questions like this.

should also check your mods.

[Possum Sauce]

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same issue.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by PossumSauce:

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same issue.

This has never been an issue for me. If updating your drivers don't fix it, and -noWorkshop flag doesn't fix it. You may have other issues.

If your video card supports it, you can enable supersampling. nVidia calls it Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) and AMD calls it Virtual Super Resolution (VSR). It will upscale it for you automatically on any resolution up to 3840 x 2560 from the driver of the video card.

Supported GPUs for nVidia:
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/dsr/supported-gpus

Supported GPUs for AMD:
https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/vsr

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by PossumSauce:

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same issue.

After contacting their support, we realised that the game's UI doesn't scale up the resolution properly, but the game itself does.

[Cyborg]

Apologies for the bump, has anyone been able to resolve this? I'm on a 32" screen @2160 and the UI stretched up to around 10% of the screen.

[MarkJohnson]

This worked for me a while back.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/discussions/0/1473096694446521455/

[Cyborg]

Thanks, but doesn't work. Ive tried running with --noWorkshop just in case it was a mod conflict, but unfortunately got the same results.

This is what I've been seeing (imagine this on a 32", its ridiculous). Lots of mods are having their icons overlapping and the vertical space occupied is too much.
https://imgur.com/ce5afEI

Is this the normal display size of these icons and the game's ui just sucks or is something wrong in my config?

[MarkJohnson]

The UI looks fine. I only see a tiny overlap with the ? icon.

I think your only concern should be no black bars on your monitor. otherwise it is working perfectly. You can adjust a lot of the UI still in game/mod/