4k 3840x2160 looks terrible - solved

[insaner3]

hi guys, I am testing my new UP2718Q screen with Ark, Epic Settings and 3840x2160 and HDR on. I can immediately see the brilliant illumination from HDR but I swear the resolution is downsampled. I put resolution scale to max of course. To see if I am imagining stuff I turned off Antialiasing and when I get really close to my screen I can clearly see that a pixel in the game consists of around 4x4 dots of my screen. the Options say it's definitely running in 3840x2160. With antialiasing turned to max everything looks blurry again, no sharp lines to see. It just looks bad if you come from other games where it works. Any information out there that confirms my theory that the engine is only pretending to run 3840x2160 but samples stuff down? I get around 60fps with my 1080ti.

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If you go in real close and view textures point-blank or very up close it's going to look blurry, all games do this. You only get detail a short distance away no matter if you're 4K or HDR or 8K or not. I don't know of any games that have native 4K textures that I've ever heard of to date.

[insaner3]

sorry for being unclear. I am not checking textures. I was checking high contrast lines like e.g. a rock outline infront of the sky. you can clearly see the "stair" effect. each stair step pixel consists of several screen matrix dots.

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Originally posted by insaner3:

sorry for being unclear. I am not checking textures. I was checking high contrast lines like e.g. a rock outline infront of the sky. you can clearly see the "stair" effect. each stair step pixel consists of several screen matrix dots.

Oh! This game only does AA up to 4x even at epic. If you want higher you'll have to force it with nvidia inspector and edit the profile directly and overwrite it. Be warned though your performance is going to -TANK-, you're already I'm sure below 60's FPS even on maximum epic settings. A single 1080 Ti can't handle 4K with all options on highest possible setting and still maintain 60 FPS minimums.

Also did you go and manually push up the slider for resolution scale as far as it would go? That should help. The default epic profile (just clicking on epic and not doing anything else) doesn't maximize that slider all the way.

Also are you using any launch options like -SM4 or anything? Make sure you remove and disable those if you are.

Also keep an eye on your card and temperatures, most likely your 1080 Ti will be running at 99% constantly in ark at your settings.

[A Terrible Modder]

WAIT you get 60 fps on 4k max, my 1080ti is stuck at 30 fps with studders on 4k max.

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Originally posted by BOOMH34D$HOT:

WAIT you get 60 fps on 4k max, my 1080ti is stuck at 30 fps with studders on 4k max

Yeah, they don't really get 60 FPS on 4K with max settings with just a single 1080 Ti. It's physically impossible and they're lying. Unless they're just looking at the sky or their feet.

[insaner3]

60 fps average when i spawn on a new island map with a random number of dinos and nothing built yet. I am sure it would drop below 20 in a big base. Anti Aliasing is meant to reduce the "stair" pixels and normally it is applied in order to interpolate strong contrast pixels. in 4k resolution AA becomes less important or almost not visible anymore because of the high pixel density of a 4k screen. To see if the meshes/polygones really scale with the resolution, it should help to turn off AA and then have a real close look. Ok people I ll try to demonstrate this with some screenshots. I prepare something and will be back later.

[insaner3]

...ok guys problem solved. I needed to restart ARK aparently. Now it is really using 4k and frames are down to 20-30fps. Apparently after all this time ARK cannot handle resolution changed without indicating a necessary restart of the game. SORRY for the confusion!

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Originally posted by insaner3:

...ok guys problem solved. I needed to restart ARK aparently. Now it is really using 4k and frames are down to 20-30fps. Apparently after all this time ARK cannot handle resolution changed without indicating a necessary restart of the game. SORRY for the confusion!

That's more like reality, yep. Sorry, I forgot about the restart thing.