Improve Visual Quality by Running your Monitor at a Non-Native Resolution
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,531 words · ~7 min read
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the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm
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fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to
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learn more all right guys before we get started if you're not entirely sure what
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anti-aliasing is either click here or open up a new tab to check out Linus's
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video on anti-aliasing and he can explain everything about it if you do
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know what anti-aliasing is let's move on on to down sampling down sampling or
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more properly known as ordered grid super sampling anti-aliasing or ogsa for
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short or how lonus likes to call it Original Gangster
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ssaa is the effect of utilizing your GPU's power to render an image at a
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higher resolution than your monitor is capable of displaying and having it
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rescale that image to the native resolution of your monitor instead of
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just rendering the edges of polygons at a higher resolution like some other
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anti-aliasing Solutions this solution is rendering everything at a higher
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resolution all of the time which makes your game look great but it's incredibly
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inefficient at the same time compared to traditional AA Solutions so if it's that
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inefficient why do it well the main reason that I have is that sometimes a
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game is released that doesn't have AA options or maybe just an onoff switch
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which does something these options lack in games are usually crappy console
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ports and the enthusiasts like us demand more so OG ssaa is our solution to for
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Force our own AA into the game effectively doing the developer job for
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them and making it look better with a sacrifice of a little bit of FPS but why
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wouldn't you simply Force AA through the driver you ask well this doesn't always
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work and even though it usually will work it may not be enough anti-aliasing
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for you and if you have the extra horsepower you may as well apply it
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speaking of extra horsepower you can mix ogs saaa with other types of AA so
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whether or not you're injecting AA or if the game supports different types you
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can run those different types alongside ogs saaa or down sampling to get a great
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experience of your game this is mostly tuned in my opinion to older games that
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your PC would traditionally be able to run without even really trying now you
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can throw a bunch of stuff at it make it a little bit harder for your PC to run
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but then it get a great visual experience out of the game I'd like to
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thank a few people first off Tabo bur from the lus tech tips forums for making
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a thread about this and making us realize that we should probably make a
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video about it then next up is neoga's Corky who created an amazing simple and
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very detailed guide for NVIDIA users and able to do down sampling over on guu 3DS
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forums black zero also created an awesome guide for AMD users thank all of
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you guys for making this possible and everybody if you're wondering how to do
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this please follow a link below this video to our Forum where you can find
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Tabo Burn's post you can find links there to Corky and black Zero's post you
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can get detailed information whether or not you're an NVIDIA or AMD user this
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video will focus on the solution for NVIDIA users this is because of how
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ghetto and broken the AMD solution actually is that being said if you're an
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AMD user and you're interested in doing this feel free to click on the link in
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the description below which will take you to Tabo Burn's post which will take
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you over to the Forum where black zero has a post on Guru 3D which you can
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follow and try this out for yourself if AMD had a stable and in driver solution
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we would have been happy to include them in this video as well for this guide we
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will be using Windows 7 just a heads up to users for Windows 8 and 8.1 it may
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not be 100% stable but you'll probably be fine so just continue along and I
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wouldn't worry too much about it also for this guide we will be using a GTX
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780 Ti because it's super strong and we can show you a ton of different setups
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and not worry too much about performance you don't need a 780 Ti to be able to do
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this at all I wouldn't worry too much about it another reason why we're using
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this card though is because the modern cards seem to minimize compatibility
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headaches and other issues along the way that older cards may have all right guys
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on the Forum please post what operating system using what monitor you're using
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and what graphics cards you're using and what your results were so that we can
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get a little bit of a database going on of what works for me personally my
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pa248q both of them were not able to go
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above 2560 x600 but my LGA 2965 in the
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office was able to easily down sample a
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4K signal so I'd love to see what you guys are able to do all right guys so
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the first thing we're going to want to do is go into the NVIDIA control panel
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by right clicking on our desktop and then selecting NVIDIA control
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panel once inside we're going to click on adjust desktop size and position make
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sure the check boox is selected for override the scaling mode set by games
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and programs and then click apply next under display you'll select
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change resolution click
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customize select enable resolutions not exposed by the display click create
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custom resolution under horizontal pixels type in 2560 and under vertical
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lines type in 1440 and then click
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test hopefully it was successful click yes to save that resolution if the test
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worked your screen will go black for a second and then it'll show in the crazy resolution and then it'll show up in
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this list if 2560 X 1440p was successful
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for you and you're feeling a little bit ambitious we can go on and try and create a 4K 16x9 resolution so in our
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horizontal pixels you're going to want to type in 3840 and then under vertical
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lines you're going to want to type in 2160 then click test and hopefully it
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works save that resolution as well if it did
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work for you then that'll add that to the list as well if you're stuck on a
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certain resolution and you want to push it further and you're being quite
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adventurous don't worry there's still some stuff you can do but they're quite
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Advanced and very setup specific so please check out Corky's thread on neoaf
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and post on our Forum with the different things that you try out there are some
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manual settings you can key in but they're pretty finicky so it'll take
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some playing around good luck so in terms of performance it seems like like
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in Crisis 3 at least down sampling from 2560 X 1440p down to 1080p was about the
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same as running 1080p with 8X msaa on
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and Visually they look pretty comparable as well we're going to show some shots
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here but I highly suggest going to The Forum and viewing them there as
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YouTube's going to have compression and it's not really going to look right so
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check them out on the Forum without compression maybe download them yourselves and again post screenshots of
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yourself trying this out maybe in different combinations and all that kind of stuff to The Forum so we can get a
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little of a database going on what looks good and what different setups work all
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right guys thanks for watching if you want to tell me what you guys think about this kind of experiment Style
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video post that in the comments below while you're down there don't forget to
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like or maybe even dislike the video and subscribe if you want do all other kinds
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of things while you're down there woo if you guys want to put input into
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you trying out down sampling don't forget to put that on the Forum as well
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and while you're there if you don't like the ads on the Forum be sure to contribute at any contribution level you
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get rid of all the ads on the Forum and if you guys want a linest tech tips
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shirt be sure to check out District Lines there's a link in the description you can get those there we've got some
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really cool stuff coming thanks for watching I'll see you guys next time