The very bad news is, Nvidia says turning DLSS 5 on will currently reduce performance by 50-60%. And that's across the board—no matter the game.

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[–] 36 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

i miss when GPUs just rendered the game, and that was all.

None of this upscaling, AI graphics altering bullshit that is there ultimately to distract from the impotent promises of 4k gaming, which is unnecessarily ridiculous to begin with.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    While I do agree, upscaling is nice when your primary monitor is 4k, because playing 1080 on a 4k monitor looks like a pixel art game.

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  • [+] -6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    And I mean you bought the 4k monitor, so for it not to be a good choice for gaming needs to be addressed. Can't have that money go to waste. Not your fault you fell for the marketing again.

    At least movies will look good on it.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    4k monitors look fine rendering 1080p

    If you have a pixel

    1

    A 4K monitor can in the same physical space draw

    1 0 0 1

    Showing more real detail it can also display in 1080p mode

    1 1 1 1

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  • [–] -2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, thank you for explaining that. No I will not buy a 4k smart TV, as I don't care and like my 1080p (and even old tube 480p tvs) the way it looks.

    This is just more "please buy our shit" sort of crap we have to deal with way way too much these days.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Given a reasonable amount of horsepower it makes sense to run your games in 4K. I was just pointing out that you CAN run a given game in 1080p if you don't have enough juice and it won't look worse than if it was running on a 1080p monitor. 4K is in fact great.

    Pretending that it doesn't actually look better is just pure copium. It's no more real than the flat earth.

    You don't have to be wiling to spend on it but it makes little sense to pretend its not better.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Pretty L sarcastic take tbh. I work on my pc, I also have 3 screens at my pc, 4k is invaluable as I can get so much more done more easily when I don't spend my time scrolling through code. Working on anything below 1440 feels cramped.

    I guess movies could look good, I wouldn't know tho.

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  • [–] -4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Cool, yet my point on gaming still stands. Most places I installed screens at had us (mostly done by the roll up software) turn the res down (so people can read it). You can use 4k I am sure, knock yourself out, but we are in crazy land where your need to have 4k has left us all in a nightmare of shit performance and fake frames.

    "Such a L take" is funny from the people with more money then sense who always seem to revert to a "get gud" defense when confronted with the idea that maybe spending more is not always a good idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    If you had to turn the res down so people can read it then you failed at basic computer usage. Resolution doesn't dictate font size.

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  • [–] -1 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    HA! But it does! try setting your 4k display to 1080p.... Look! Bigger letters!

    Keep in mind this was also due to most places wanting the same settings with all pcs, so hey the shittiest res becomes everyones! YAY!

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Eh, okay dude, sure thing, I usually have my browser set by default to 80% zoom on lower res screens and my font is quite small on the 4k, I also disable any kind of scaling.

    Believe it or not, not everyone sees the world like you do.

    It sounds like you made up your mind though, which is cool for you I guess.

    I appreciate advances in tech, especially stuff like display tech, you kind of remind me of my dad the time he told us we'd never need a hard drive bigger than 2gb, lol.

    I'm just gonna go be gud over here, you do you over there..

    I'll also add that anti aliasing is not as important nowadays because realistically, it was a way to hide lower resolutions by smoothing edges, now edges can be smooth at native resolutions without it. (there's nuance to that ofc) I'm not sure if you hated AA too.

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  • [–] -2 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Believe it or not, not everyone sees the world like you do.

    Heyyyyy look good advice!

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    I wasn't belittling others over my own views. But anyway, I'm done engaging with you, peace ✌️

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  • [+] -13 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    4k is only ridiculous if you play games seated at a desk. Videogames are still ultimately a livingroom toy at their heart, and there are people who’ve graduated from game consoles to PCs and still want to play on the couch. That means distance from your TV, which means the TV has to be pretty large. Lower resolutions on a TV that size do not look good.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Ummmm 4k is way less important at couch distance compared to desk distance. Most of us don't have TVs that occupy the same field of view from the couch as a monitor does at the desk. For example I have a 32 inch monitor at my desk 1.5 feet away and a 65 inch TV about 10 feet away. Sure the TV has 4x the viewing area but my viewing distance is more than 4x so the picture is not as crisp.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    You are almost right. It depends on viewing distance as you correctly noted the given viewing distance and screen sizes its pretty easy to tell the difference between 1080p and 4K in most people's living room especially since big ass screens are cheap and big ass houses expensive.

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  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago*

    If you were watching a movie you might be right, but that won’t compensate enough for how low that pixel density is on that size of a TV on a video game. The subpixel aliasing will be notably worse on the TV.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    The relationship between screen size and distance to viewer decides at what resolution you won't be able to notice more detail at a higher resolution. 4K on a desktop monitor can make the same amount of sense (or not) as on a TV (or phone, or any other device with a display really).

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Which is bull, because we've been playing games from our couches for like 40 years and there were beautiful, amazing, wonderful graphics long before the 4k propaganda.

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    I mean… no?

    I’m not sure what else to say to that.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (1 child)

    you have a big stache of C O P I U M.

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    No, I think you denying reality because of sunk cost fallacy has said enough.

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  • [–] -1 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Weapons grade copium on your part lol

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    You know it, buddy.

    Your dismissiveness of reality doesn’t change the reality

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    Pretty sure lots of old games still look great. Why else would there be modern pixel art games still coming out? The graphics of yore may not have been advanced but they had an art style which is more important than graphics and more than most modern AAA games.

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