1080p on 4K Display?

[JohnstonOctober]

Hey, I recently got a 4K monitor and I love it of course, but I am not getting the frames I want on certain games and I am curious is there is a better way to display 1080p on a 4K monitor, if you just select 1080p it stretches the picture and makes it look all blurry, so I am trying to figure of if there is a way to put it in the 4K resolution but on have a 1080p rendering resolution if that makes sense, it just doesn't make sense for my old 27 inch 1080p montitor to look as good as it did compared to my 27 inch 4K being all blurry and stretched looking.

 

[MarkW]

You really need to get a GPU that is strong enough to play games at 4K res for best results.

You can set most games to 1080 *and* windowed mode, but it will not fill the screen obviously. This is not the perfect solution, but it might be a least good enough for awhile.

 

[13thmonkey]

check the scaling options, and try letting the screen do it, or your GPU do it, one might work better than the other.

Unselecting this as the best answer.

 

[Jester Maroc]

I will send you my 1080p monitor, and pay for shipping for yours to reach me 🙂

 

[JohnstonOctober]

I am running 980ti's in sli, but certain games don't support sli so I am forced to use 1, and 4K still seems like a lot for it, only getting around 30fps but can push 120-150 in 1080p kinda irritates me cause I replaced my outdated 770 with the 980s a week after I bought em heard about the 1080's, but I will check just looked at the box for my monitor and it says it can upscale I'll check into it

 

[JohnstonOctober]

I know tv's are different and all but my 4k tv displays 1080p like 1080p why can a monitor not do the same? I been messing with all of the nvidia settings since i got home and everything I do its all blurry. What I will do to get a steady 60fps on all my games, Tempted just to sell the 4k and get a 1440p 144hz monitor.

 

[13thmonkey]

so you've tried all of the nvidia scaling options in the nvidia control panel?

 

[MarkW]

Technology does not always move forward at the sme pace. We had 4K monitors long before anyone had even tested 4K monitors @ 60Hz.In fact, the early 4K monitors required 2 GPU feeds resulting in a whopping 4K @ 30Hz image.

Roughly a year later, the 4K @ 60 Hz standard started to appear on the market. Something like 3 years later, and we are finally reaching the point where we do not need to spend $1000+ for a GPU that can push 4K output.

Be patient. Over time the cost of everything computer related drops, while performance increases.

 

[Epicness937]

I am running 980ti's in sli, but certain games don't support sli so I am forced to use 1, and 4K still seems like a lot for it, only getting around 30fps but can push 120-150 in 1080p kinda irritates me cause I replaced my outdated 770 with the 980s a week after I bought em heard about the 1080's, but I will check just looked at the box for my monitor and it says it can upscale I'll check into it

are they evga 980s??