Going from 1050p (16:10) to 1440p (16:9), what do I need to know?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
O

ovacia345

Honorable
Oct 31, 2013
87
0
10,630
hey folks,

I'm upgrading my old montor (the Samsung Syncmaster T200HD) in August to the brand new Asus ROG Swift, which has 2x more pixels. I currently own a gtx 770 and I wish to upgrade to gtx 870's in SLI by the time The Witcher 3 launches. This meaning so I can play with max settings on this new monitor from Asus hopefully at more than 60 fps. I currently am overclocking this GPU to a memory clock of 8000 Mhz and a core clock of 1300 Mhz. On the monitor that I own now I get very reasonable framerates in games like battlefield 3 (90-120 fps) or AC4:BF (40-65 fps).
I fear that those numbers will drop so significantly, that I have to tweak my settings. I let nVidia do the settings for me these days with their handy Geforce Experience. Will the games be still playable with so much more pixels, I don't care about anti-aliasing because with this new monitor I'll have so much more pixels. I'll use 2x anti-aliasing at the most, if it is really really bad to watch at.

Samsung monitor: http://nl.hardware.info/productinfo/17562/samsung-syncmaster-t200hd

 
Solution
Rationale


I would certainly never use more than 2xMSAA at 1440p. SMAA/FXAA/MLAA would be enough as well, though ofc a bit of IQ would be lost with Post AA.

Not sure about GeForce Experience. It kept recommending me semi-broken settings (putting me at ultra in games where I dropped to ~30 fps, and putting me on low in games where I got 70+ fps). Just silly. I don't recommend using it.
Sort by date Sort by votes
S

stokes1790

Honorable
Feb 18, 2013
225
0
10,760
The only concern would be hitting the vram cap, which is 2gb (unless you got a 4gb edition) at 1440p. I think you are probably fine if you turn of AA, but you may need to drop texture quality a notch in some games until the Maxwell cards hit.

Seems like a fine purchase to me, will let you really enjoy your planned future purchase.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
O

ovacia345

Honorable
Oct 31, 2013
87
0
10,630
Do the settings that Geforce Experience picks change, if you change your monitor(resolution)?
In this way I'll only have to check the anti-aliasing option, because that's (almost) not necessary in most modern games on 1440p IHO.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
O

ovacia345

Honorable
Oct 31, 2013
87
0
10,630
I'm going to enjoy the heck out of TW3 with this new uber-monitor and the new maxwell chips. They say the ROG Swift is better than a 4K screen. What?! It is more expensive, but that means better image quality and a steady framerate. I can't wait when TW3 launches and I fire the game up for the first time!!
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Rationale

Rationale

Admirable
Mar 21, 2014
3,025
0
7,960


I would certainly never use more than 2xMSAA at 1440p. SMAA/FXAA/MLAA would be enough as well, though ofc a bit of IQ would be lost with Post AA.

Not sure about GeForce Experience. It kept recommending me semi-broken settings (putting me at ultra in games where I dropped to ~30 fps, and putting me on low in games where I got 70+ fps). Just silly. I don't recommend using it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom