Lower resolution gaming on 1080p screen

neonyziee · Jun 2, 2015

Hello,

I posted this question before, but it didn't get a lot of reads and answers, so I'm posting it again (hope it doesn't violate any rules). The thing is that I'm planning on buying a laptop soon, for college. I may use it for some games like CS:GO, FIFA or GTA, so it doesn't have to be anything special. However I a need good CPU, so I'm going with the i7-4720HQ. For the money I have, I can afford a notebook with GTX 950M GDDR3 (maybe I could find one with GDDR5, not sure), but what seems to be the problem is that every notebook has 1080p resolution on 15.6" screen. That may cause problem for games, I want to lower down the resolution to get better FPS while gaming.

So I need answer from someone who knows, or has tested gaming in the same circumstances.

Will games look terrible and jagged when played at lower resolution (eg. 1366x768) on a 1920x1080 15.6" screen?

Thanks for your answers. Cheers.

drixkarasu · Jun 2, 2015

They will not look as good as in a real 1366x768 screen, but it won't be much worse either.
The 950m should be enough for low/mid details @1080 on CS:GO and FIFA though.

MarkW · Jun 2, 2015

Very few laptops are going to be able to play GTA V well. It is a very demanding game, and laptops get the mobile graphic chips, which are almost always grossly underpowered. Then you mix in the average cheap display panel used on most laptops, the low amount of memory in most of them, and it all adds up.

As far as lowering the resolution, you might be able to do that, but some panels are hard wired to run at their default spec. Make sure whatever you plan on buying can do that before you spend the money.

Xibyth · Jun 2, 2015

Any windows machine can adjust the resolution through display properties; however this can cause the display to appear very blurry because LCD panels do not adapt well to other resolutions than their native. This can be adjusted within the individual games settings with very little impact on the visual appearance on the game (it gets worse the lower you set it) but running on mid/low settings for GTA V at 1600x900 resolution should get you at least 35 FPS at the lowest point.

Another note, mobile graphics actually have more VRAM than their desktop counterparts. This has been the case for a while to improve their performance. Mainly this was done because the GPU cannot process data as fast on mobile chips so they added more memory to que more frames for rendering.

neonyziee · Jun 2, 2015

Xibyth :

I know that I can adjust the resolution on display properties and in the individual game settings and lowering the resolution is going to make my screen more blurry, and I am not asking about the FPS in games.

I am just asking if it would have a noticable impact on the visual appearance of the game if I turned down resolution in my games. Am i going to notice the blur too much on 15.6" screen or it won't be that much of an issue?

Xibyth · Jun 2, 2015

neonyziee :

Xibyth :

I know that I can adjust the resolution on display properties and in the individual game settings and lowering the resolution is going to make my screen more blurry, and I am not asking about the FPS in games.

I am just asking if it would have a noticable impact on the visual appearance of the game if I turned down resolution in my games. Am i going to notice the blur too much on 15.6" screen or it won't be that much of an issue?

Not by much but yes, it will create some but very little blurring. Less on a 15" display.

3ogdy · Jun 2, 2015

Well, that GTX 950M GDDR5 is more or less the equivalent of a 2GB HD6950. Therefore, with the i7-4720HQ and 8GB of RAM the system should be capable of the following:
CS:GO - Highest settings @ 1080p
GTA V - Medium settings (the GPU would hold you back on High) @1080p & High @ 1366x768
FIFA 15 on Highest settings @ 1080p
FIFA 16 on Highest settings @ 1080p

Low - Medium for CS:GO? The recommended system requirements for that game state a GT630 / HD6670. A GT 630!
For the record: A GDDR5 630 is capable of transferring data at 51.2GB/sec whereas the GDDR5 950M has transfer rates of 80GB/s, with an L2 cache four times as big, over 7 times the shader processing units, about 3x times the texture rate and over 4x the pixel rate. All while using 15W less than the desktop version of the GT630.

As far as FIFA16 is concerned, it requires a GTX460 (again, desktop version) .
The 950M has about 50% less bandwidth than the desktop GTX460, but comes with twice as many shaders and similar texture rate - the difference between the 2010 GTX460 we're talking about here and the GTX950M would only be about 20% - in favor of the GTX460. Keep in mind, we're talking about recommended settings here.

Minimum system requirements for FIFA 16 would include a GT650, considerably slower than the GTX950M. Consequently, you may not run the game maxed out, but there's a long way from Minimum to Maximum - you'll play it with settings a bit lower than max.

I don't think you will have problems regarding how the image looks like @1080p on a 15.6" screen. But as you already mentioned, you can always change the resolution to 1366x768 if you think they look better that way and get a performance boost as a bonus.

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