Why is there no game tag for 4K compatible games?

[Six Assed Monkey]

I'm looking for UHD games here on Steam. Shockingly, there does not seem to be any tags for such games. Why is there no way for me to search them here in steam without having to rely on the web for the answer?

[Glimmer]

Because people aren't tagging games as being 4k.

[Darren]

Because not enough people are tagging the games with a tag like 4K or UHD, or something of that nature. Unfortunately the people using 4K resolutions is only about 5% so unless there is a group actively tagging games it's not going to happen anytime soon.

Your best bet short of that is a curator like: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/2710-Widescreen-Gaming-Forum/

[Mikasa Ackerman]

honestly, most non indie games can be upscaled to 4k , so theres not really a point , also as Darren said , only a small percentage uses it , i currently have 4k monitor and i will get a 1440p monitor with 144hz for most games since 4k is just not worth it imo , its good for eyecandy games like final fantasy 13 but thats it , for most other games it means having to turn down the graphics just to get a good framerate , and most games dont really have 4k textures either

[999999999]

HW Survey suggests the % is lower than that even...

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 999999999:

HW Survey suggests the % is lower than that even...

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

well , my monitor resolution should be somewhere around 8320 times whatever monitor it wants the vertical height off , like 2160 for my 4k one , 1440 for the left or 1080p for the right monitor

i mainly game on the 4k one for now , but i have a multi monitor set up

[wuddih]

that tag would make no sense. if the devs are not complete idiots, a game will render in any resolution available, hardware performance is the limiter.

[Nicolas_dos_Games]

yes

[VaLiuM]

You could ask the same for 60 FPS, SLI or Crossfire, D3D or OpenGL and the list can be so much longer.

[Aahzmandias]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Predator:

I'm looking for UHD games here on Steam. Shockingly, there does not seem to be any tags for such games. Why is there no way for me to search them here in steam without having to rely on the web for the answer?

Because on PC that makes no sense. We are able to configure almost any game to that resolution.

"4K" is pure console marketing nonsense. Similar to "cinematic experience" for the inferior 30 fps modes.

Here it is more a problem of balance. Can YOUR gaming PC balance "4K" graphic and 60 fps. Or do you need to buy better hardware, to play in that resolution. Or simple scale it down on your actual hardware.

And to use native 4K that weren't delivered with the game, you only need to find textures fitting that resolution. You are able to change the textures even later in most games. It's no rocket science.

I did this in Fallout 4 and Skyrim ... at least to 2K resolution. My gaming "potatoe" isn't capable of handling 4k. I balanced it for 1920:1080 resolution and over 60 fps. It's the matter of the balancing, I spoke about, you see? You need to find the sweet spot for every game on PC on your own.

I got even a texture mod for assassins Creed. The old one.

And don't forget, textures and resolution are only one tiny aspect of the whole package. You have to consider anti-alaising, the shadow engine, depth of field, post processing type, some special functions like tesselation, godrays, nvidia hairworks, the physics engine and many more screws you can turn for an optimal result. In the future even ray tracing.

The 4k information is totally irrelevant, in comparison to some of that. Because like I said, it's only the scaling and the texture size.

[Customer Care Specialist]

Because nobody except overkill hardware maniacs plays games in 4k.
(Most dont even have 4k screens)

alsmost all modern aaa single player games will support it, and on all others theres no point anyway.

[wubbelflup]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Lo So Fare:

Because nobody except overkill hardware maniacs plays games in 4k.
(Most dont even have 4k screens)

alsmost all modern aaa single player games will support it, and on all others theres no point anyway.

i can see the pixels lol. 4k is overrated i agree.

i want a tag for games for my smart fridge though..

[rincewind]

Diposting pertama kali oleh epicpotato:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Lo So Fare:

Because nobody except overkill hardware maniacs plays games in 4k.
(Most dont even have 4k screens)

alsmost all modern aaa single player games will support it, and on all others theres no point anyway.

i can see the pixels lol. 4k is overrated i agree.

i want a tag for games for my smart fridge though..

Skyrim Very Special Edition!

[Vargarv-Des]

the tags are made by ppl not by steam, so essentially it's your fault

[wuddih]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Vargarv:

the tags are made by ppl not by steam, so essentially it's your fault

new tags have to get approval before they show up to someone else other then the submitter.
Battle Royale f.e. was just added recently.

and the tags have to make sense and cannot be negatively implied.
this here is just dumb buzzword marketing. might work on consoles, on PC it just makes no sense.

[Six Assed Monkey]

Well, to answer some of this, I just bought 2x nVidia RTX 2080 Ti Founder's Edition cards. I was speaking primarily to games that can play native 4k, such as Fallout 4 and the new Tomb Raider as examples. From my search, there are only a handfull of games that can do this. Was not so much interested in up-scaling. I was merely asking why nobody was tagging anything as 4k. Probably a bit too soon for the masses, but I never considered myself as an "overkill hardware maniac" until this very moment.