1080P 27" 144Hz Monitor. How do I Upscale?

[Jice]

I read that having a 1080p 27" monitor has bad quality because low pixel density or something. How can I upscale my resolution to 1440p or something that fits that monitor size better? Is it an anti aliasing option, render scale, or virtual super resolution i need to change to do this. I have an AMD rx5700 GPU. Also does the refresh rate matter when it comes to affecting resolution? Is there a better way to increase sharpness and reduce the blur?

[Tom]

Change monitor

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Jice:

...1080p 27" monitor... How can I upscale my resolution to 1440p or something that fits that monitor size better?

1440 won't fit better or make it look better.

[Washell]

The change you need to make is buying a new monitor. The low pixel density is a physical limitation/result of having only 1920x1080 pixels across the fairly large surface area of a 27" display.

There's no setting or trick that can fix this, other than increasing the physical distance between your eyes and the display.

[Jice]

Originally posted by Washell:

The change you need to make is buying a new monitor. The low pixel density is a physical limitation/result of having only 1920x1080 pixels across the fairly large surface area of a 27" display.

There's no setting or trick that can fix this, other than increasing the physical distance between your eyes and the display.

Then what is upscaling technology for?

[Kietan]

On Nvidia cards the feature is called Dynamic Super Resolution.

Here:
AMD Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) allows games to render at higher resolutions (above the native resolution of the display) and then rescales them down to a lower native display resolution. When this feature is enabled, virtual resolutions beyond the native resolution of the display will be available in a wide variety of games and applications, including the Windows® Desktop.

So it's Virtual Super Resolution you want.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-010

[Schloss Ritter]

You'd actually be better off lowering the resolution to 720p on that screen. Or what I do with mine, use 1360x768 since 720p looks fuzzy on my old 26" TV that I use for a monitor.

[Autumn_]

Originally posted by Jice:

Originally posted by Washell:

The change you need to make is buying a new monitor. The low pixel density is a physical limitation/result of having only 1920x1080 pixels across the fairly large surface area of a 27" display.

There's no setting or trick that can fix this, other than increasing the physical distance between your eyes and the display.

Then what is upscaling technology for?

To reduce jaggies and shimmering.

Originally posted by Schloss Ritter:

You'd actually be better off lowering the resolution to 720p on that screen. Or what I do with mine, use 1360x768 since 720p looks fuzzy on my old 26" TV that I use for a monitor.

No, because you's have scaling issues.
On 1440p, it would be better to lower it to 720p, because you would have 4 pixels the same colour, equaling one pixel for that res.
This is a 1080p monitor, using 720p would make it fuzzy/blurry, and further reduce visual quaility because you'rw playing 720p@27inch.
Bad idea.

OP, as said before, the only thing you can do other than buying a new monitor is to move it / yourself back from it.
That would improve the look of it, because of the limitations of the human eye.

[Jice]

Originally posted by Autumn:

Originally posted by Jice:

Then what is upscaling technology for?

To reduce jaggies and shimmering.

Originally posted by Schloss Ritter:

You'd actually be better off lowering the resolution to 720p on that screen. Or what I do with mine, use 1360x768 since 720p looks fuzzy on my old 26" TV that I use for a monitor.

No, because you's have scaling issues.
On 1440p, it would be better to lower it to 720p, because you would have 4 pixels the same colour, equaling one pixel for that res.
This is a 1080p monitor, using 720p would make it fuzzy/blurry, and further reduce visual quaility because you'rw playing 720p@27inch.
Bad idea.

OP, as said before, the only thing you can do other than buying a new monitor is to move it / yourself back from it.
That would improve the look of it, because of the limitations of the human eye.

Ah okay thank you. I'm super confused why lowering the resolution would ever help image quality...?

[Snow]

27" is indeed quite a big screen for FHD.
The best option is to use AMD's VSR you mentioned. Turning it on will add higher resolutions to most of the games, and using them will result in a bit better image. You can also try ReShade - SMAA/FXAA with a bit of a sharpening can help a lot.
Oh, and, by the way, what you want is downscaling, not upscaling.

[Jice]

Originally posted by Snow:

27" is indeed quite a big screen for FHD.
The best option is to use AMD's VSR you mentioned. Turning it on will add higher resolutions to most of the games, and using them will result in a bit better image. You can also try ReShade - SMAA/FXAA with a bit of a sharpening can help a lot.
Oh, and, by the way, what you want is downscaling, not upscaling.

What Resolution should I select in game after i enable VSR? I tried 1440p and it made my screen black and said "resolution out of range". What is Re-Shade is that something other than Anti aliasing?

[Snow]

Originally posted by Jice:

What Resolution should I select in game after i enable VSR? I tried 1440p and it made my screen black and said "resolution out of range". What is Re-Shade is that something other than Anti aliasing?

Turn on GPU scaling, this should help with "out of range" issue.
ReShade is a little utility that can make selected game use custom DX libraries instead of default ones. Those custom ones can be tampered with on fly, so you can add various post-processing effects to a game. There are a bunch of different sharpening techniques and a couple of AA techniques, it's the first thing I do if the game doesn't have proper AA or has a bad one. ReShade can do a lot of stuff to improve game's visual representation.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Jice:

Originally posted by Washell:

The change you need to make is buying a new monitor. The low pixel density is a physical limitation/result of having only 1920x1080 pixels across the fairly large surface area of a 27" display.

There's no setting or trick that can fix this, other than increasing the physical distance between your eyes and the display.

Then what is upscaling technology for?

To scale a low resolution source up to a high resolution output. As in, scaling a 1080p source up to a 4k TV.

Your issues are the result of a physical limitation and while you may be able to sand off the worst edges through settings and tricks, it's never going to look really good. Other than increasing the physical distance between you and it, which effectively turns it into a smaller screen.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

VSR / DSR won't improve your picture quality. Unless your monitor is really low resolution like 720p (that's an exception, from my real life experience).

If you enable VSR / DSR, it only enable the GPU to output image at higher resolutions. But you won't notice any difference because your monitor is unable to show those extra pixels.

[_I_]

^ this

you can make the pc render videos/images at a higher res, but without a display capable of showing it its pointless

you can take a screenshot or make a video of the higher res
but for gaming alone its not going to help (will cause extra cpu/gpu load for no gain or even image quality loss)

[Jice]

I'm confused why most movies and animated shows are 1080p dont look blurred on my 65" tv