4K in Older Games?

[Raraku]

Hey all,

So I'm considering upgrading from a 1080p to 4K monitor. Assuming I have the power to run games at 4K (which shouldn't be an issue with older titles)... will I be able to run them in 4K, and will I notice a legitimate graphical improvement over the standard 1080p? When I say older games I'm thinking games like:

Mass Effect series (particularly 1 & 2)
Deus Ex Redux
System Shock 2
Star Wars KOTOR
Age of Empires II (HD REmastered edition)
+ any a number of other titles from 2007-2012?

Thank you for any insights you can provide!

 

[Rogue Leader]

The game needs to support 4k resolution. None of those games support 4k as far as I know, not only that ME1 doesn't even properly support 1080p.

 

[James Mason]

Some games look "better" at 4k, like AOE 2, But the games won't actually run at 4k, they'll just be bigger on your screen.

If a game like AOE2 actually ran at 4k, everything would be extremely small, as it's all pixel graphics, so suddenly your villagers are gonna be impossible to see because they have a set number of pixels they take up.

Kotor's UI also wouldn't scale properly as it's made out of fixed pixels as well.