I am asking this because of several things from people I've talked with and I see so many post where someone says something like " i want to run game X on max out ultra settings at X fps", but then they use a fairly small 1080p display. So many people just seem obsessed with having to have it be able to do the game at the fully maxed 100% ultra settings. I really haven't noticed much of a difference if I run lets say watch dogs with shader maxed, 1920 x 1080, ultra detail but then medium shadows and x2 AA instead of ultra shadows and x4/8 and the other settings turned up. It's very difficult to see the difference and that's on a 47" tv my computers runs to. I see the biggest difference when you put shadows from low to medium and then a small difference depending on the game from medium to high with bright outdoor games making the biggest difference, but beyond high to ultra there is no noticeable difference. Same with AA from off to x2 the quality is much improved but beyond that I'm not seeing much. I bring up those 2 settings in particular because they are the 2 highest fps dragging settings and I find most games I can turn this down a little and it makes the difference between 50-60 and 30-40fps. Watch Dogs is pretty hard to really see a difference even between the detail setting at medium and ultra but I notice detail setting doesn't seem to affect the fps much at all.
It seems like the greatest difference is when you actually adjust the resolution, if I turn watchdogs down to 16 x 1040 or whatever it is there is a very big noticeable difference and even if I turn all these other settings to the highest they can go it still doesn't even look as good as turning it back to 1080p and having those settings turned back down. If your not sitting right up on your monitor that's going to affect things even more with every 8-12" you are further back will make all of these even less noticeable. If you put a 27" display with a game completely maxed out settings in 1080p and then a 23" with a mix of settings like medium / high shadows and lowered AA side by side sitting the same distance from each would you even be able to tell the difference of which had what? I've actually heard people talk about instead of turning your settings down to actually just turn the resolution down and then you can turn those settings up. does that make sense and I am just mistaken or something? No matter how much I tweak a game on a lower resolution it doesn't ever look better. It doesn't seem like it should either b/c you are actually making the entire area less dense forcing the game to take less and spread it out over the same distance.
I've talked with so many people who are actually like oh i'm not getting video card A or B b/c it runs bf4 online in only 55fps with the full ultra setting and i need 60+ like they will absolutely die if one of the precious settings were just turned down a little to give them the extra fps they want. Sometimes I wonder "hey can you actually see a real noticeable difference or do you just say you need it because you just want it for whatever reason, maybe to feel better or brag about it or something."
If I am mistaken please tell me as this is why I am asking. Also, what point would you say is the noticeable difference? past what screen size or what setting?
It seems like the greatest difference is when you actually adjust the resolution, if I turn watchdogs down to 16 x 1040 or whatever it is there is a very big noticeable difference and even if I turn all these other settings to the highest they can go it still doesn't even look as good as turning it back to 1080p and having those settings turned back down. If your not sitting right up on your monitor that's going to affect things even more with every 8-12" you are further back will make all of these even less noticeable. If you put a 27" display with a game completely maxed out settings in 1080p and then a 23" with a mix of settings like medium / high shadows and lowered AA side by side sitting the same distance from each would you even be able to tell the difference of which had what? I've actually heard people talk about instead of turning your settings down to actually just turn the resolution down and then you can turn those settings up. does that make sense and I am just mistaken or something? No matter how much I tweak a game on a lower resolution it doesn't ever look better. It doesn't seem like it should either b/c you are actually making the entire area less dense forcing the game to take less and spread it out over the same distance.
I've talked with so many people who are actually like oh i'm not getting video card A or B b/c it runs bf4 online in only 55fps with the full ultra setting and i need 60+ like they will absolutely die if one of the precious settings were just turned down a little to give them the extra fps they want. Sometimes I wonder "hey can you actually see a real noticeable difference or do you just say you need it because you just want it for whatever reason, maybe to feel better or brag about it or something."
If I am mistaken please tell me as this is why I am asking. Also, what point would you say is the noticeable difference? past what screen size or what setting?
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