Downscaling from resolution higher than monitor native resolution.

[Nekropl]

Hi guys! I have a rather strange question. I have a Full HD monitor, if I use upscalers, then my picture obviously turns into a mess. But then I asked myself a question. What if I set the resolution of my monitor higher than the native Full HD? For example 4k (AMD software allows you to do this), and then after the game is rendered in 4k downscale it back to Full HD, will the picture be more beautiful from this, or on the contrary, will it become more grainy and fuzzy?

[Midnight Aurais]

that is basically what that feature already does

upscalers and downscalers scale from or to native

[_I_]

dsr or vsr

gpu rendering at a higher res and scaling down

any image scaling will be a bit blurry
you will lose some details no matter what type of scaling is used

[HIVEmind]

I used downscaleing before. You can squeeze more resolutions but not much and can wreck your eyes later down the road. Better buy that new monitor. I went with qhd, decent size and speed. And 300 bux.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you want to test for that then disable FSR/ DLSS in games and use VSR / DSR via OS GPU Control Panel.

For example, turning on DSR in NVIDIA CP on a 1080p Display and enable 2 basic options; 178% and 400%

1080p @ 178% = 1440p
1080p @ 400% = 2160p (4K)

Set the DSR smoothness at 10% (this can be adjusted later on if needed) the apply.

After this now those screen resolution options are available in OS and most Games. Change the OS Desktop Screen Res to something higher. Then load up a game and change it there as well and see how everything goes. However the GPU will be accounting for that higher res, so performance will be impacted. It's a good way to test something like 1440p or 2160p before actually upgrading your Display that has that as a native res.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Nekropl:

will it become more grainy and fuzzy?

If you use super resolution it should give better image quality than native 1080p. Just try it and see how it looks for you.

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Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to enable NVIDIA dynamic super resolution aka DSR on your GeForce graphics card. DSR lets you run your monitor on a higher than native resolution, i.e.

[Illusion of Progress]

That would effectively be supersampling anti-aliasing.

If you want to to be truly technical, it will be a bit blurrier, but you'll really only notice it with certain things (you can set your desktop to twice the resolution and observe stuff like the cursor or text if you're not scaling it to see what I'm talking about). Anti-aliasing usually does result in a subtle loss of sharpness.

Despite this, it shouldn't appear blurry overall in games, and it will be a quality boost. You'll need a lot of GPU performance to support it though, especially in more modern games. Those are going the other way and often need upscaling to get acceptable performance, and downscaling will often be too much for them, sometimes even on fast hardware.

[Nekropl]

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

I used downscaleing before. You can squeeze more resolutions but not much and can wreck your eyes later down the road. Better buy that new monitor. I went with qhd, decent size and speed. And 300 bux.

not my case because i tried 27 inch monitors before and it's hurting my eyes so much, my maximum comfort diag is 24,5 inches, and now very few monitors lesser than 27 T_T

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Nekropl:

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

I used downscaleing before. You can squeeze more resolutions but not much and can wreck your eyes later down the road. Better buy that new monitor. I went with qhd, decent size and speed. And 300 bux.

not my case because i tried 27 inch monitors before and it's hurting my eyes so much, my maximum comfort diag is 24,5 inches, and now very few monitors lesser than 27 T_T

It sounds like your screen is too close. Maybe try a bigger screen on a bigger desk? Bigger and further away should be healthier and easier on your eyes.

[Nekropl]

Originally posted by C1REX:

Originally posted by Nekropl:

not my case because i tried 27 inch monitors before and it's hurting my eyes so much, my maximum comfort diag is 24,5 inches, and now very few monitors lesser than 27 T_T

It sounds like your screen is too close. Maybe try a bigger screen on a bigger desk? Bigger and further away should be healthier and easier on your eyes.

i have like 80cm desk and my monitor is on bracket so my monitor is minimum 70cm from me, i think this is comfortable enough, I just really hate it when my monitor starts to look more like a TV and instantly hurting my eyes