Tip for playing below your native resolution (sharper graphics)

[Standie]

Figured I would share this. I have a native resolution of 1080p, but I play most games at 900p. With MGS V, changing my resolution to 900p resulted into the game becoming far less sharp than you'd expect, which is most noticable in the text. However, after I changed the resolution of my computer itself, the text and everything else looked how it should. So if you have the same problem, go change your resolution by right clicking your desktop, going to your display settings and change it to the same resolution you use in the game. Now start up MGS V and check if it looks better.

I'm not sure why this is the only game that forces me to do this. I think MGS V has a rather odd fullscreen mode. With any other game, going from fullscreen to my desktop takes a second, however with MGS V it happens instantly almost as if I was using bordless windowed (which I'm not). Changing the resolution also happens instantly, while every other game turns black for a second during this process.

[andersonm]

um, I'm not sure how reducing resolution would lead to "sharper" graphics.

Like, if you have a screen made in the last 10 years, it's an LCD screen with a fixed number of dots.

If the rendering resolution of the game is identical to your screen, then each dot in the graphics engine will match up with 1 dot on the screen.

But if the rendering resolution of the game is less than your screen, let's say the game is set to 900 pixels and your screen has 1080, then some of the game pixels will be streched across two on-screen pixels.

I'm not sure how this is intended to make things more sharp.

Does this go all the way down, like if you reduce the resolution to 320x200 it becomes ♥♥♥♥ hot sharp?

[Neonwarrior]

Wait, so you have a 1080p monitor, but you're lowering your game's resolution to 900p? Do you mean in a 900p window or fullscreen, because fullscreen means you're stretching pixels. That's the opposite of sharpness.

[Standie]

I don't think you guys actually read what I wrote... I did not claim 900p is sharper than 1080p. I claimed that changing the game to 900p made it unusually blurry/jaggy, which I fixed when I also changed my computer to 900p. By using this method, 900p looks like what 900p is suppossed to look like. So I'm saying that the game itself does not handle changing resolutions very well unless you also change it in your pc settings. And yeah, I'm solely talking about full screen.

As for why someone would a lower their resolution, it is simply the easiest way to improve performance. The Phantom Pain is fortunately very well optimized, but there's always going to be people who need to lower their settings a bit for a more stable performance.