• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Gaming was supposed to be one of the best drivers for 8K adoption.

    Whu? Where 4k still struggles with GPU power? And for next to no benefit?

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      3 days ago

      What’s dumb is that 3D failed because of lack of resolution and brightness, and now we have more pixels than we can handle and screens so bright they can hurt to look at. PS3 had a couple games that showed different screens to two players wearing 3D glasses. I’d love to see full screen couch coop games with modern tech. 8K isn’t solving any problems.

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        3D failed for the exact same reason VR is failing now. Nobody wants to wear headsets at home.

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        Screen dimming is technically possible over HDMI/Displayport no idea why its not properly supported and integrated into monitors, graphics drivers, windows and Linux. KDE shows dimming for monitors sometimes? Don’t know if that is software or real hardware dimming though.

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      2 days ago

      Introducing the new DLSS 9, were we upscale 720p to 8k. Looks better than native, pinky swear.

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      I dunno. Oxygen Not Included looks crisp on a 4K monitor. And it makes my job easier, being able to have an absolute tonne of code on-screen and readable. I reckon I could probably use an 8K monitor for those things.

      Yeah, I generally have FSR running on any 3D game made in about the last decade - even if I can run it at 4K at a reasonable framerate, my computer fans start to sound like a hoover and the whole room starts warming up. But upscaling seems a better solution than having separate monitors for work and play.

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        2 days ago

        Everything above 1440p isn’t offering any display space. I have a 4K monitor but 150% DPI is needed to make things big enough to work with.

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          Depends on the usecase (how far away your eyes are) and how big the display is (again, how far away). TV is far away, has ideally 50 to 70" but low dpi. Computer display is good around 30 to 40" (would need to move your head otherwise, wasted money), maxes out at around 4k. Notebook 10 to 20", high dpi, 2k is good enough. While a phone has very high dpi, but 5 to 7" and around 1k resolution.

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          2 days ago

          I’m using a 5k by 1200 monitor and it’s awesome with Kde. I suppose it would be equally great with other interfaces.

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              16 hours ago

              Sure, native resolution, it’s fine.

              Not so on my laptop with an insane resolution of like 2k by 3k on a 13 or 14 inch screen though.

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                14 hours ago

                What do you mean 2k by 3k? And 5k by 1200? 4K is a resolution of 3840 × 2160. 1440p is normally 2560 × 1440.

                My 4K monitor ( 3840 × 2160) is 27 inches and with 100% DPI is not usable. Resolution is 4K only bigger UI. (150%, which is as if I had 1440p).

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                  14 hours ago

                  The 5k monitor is a 49 inch model from MSI. The laptop is a compact model from Lenovo, a Yoga Pro something or other. Not sure what its resolution is (3k something by 2k something from what I remember), just that it’s needlessly high for its screen size, requiring UI scaling.

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      Pretty sure my GPU could run 4k Rimworld, just play good games instead of AAA games.

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        But we are talking TV. RPG with a controller is more suitable here. And there are some great RPG games.