Upscaling 720p Monitor to 1080p for gaming

[Stephen_88]

So for people who dont have the money to go out and buy a whole new monitor can i use my current 720p monitor and upscale it to 1080p to game and if so how close will it look to native 1080p or should i just keep it at 720p.

 

[superninja12]

I got not clue how a 1080p upscale looks on a 720p monitor.

but I know how 720p on a 1080p monitor looks.
Sure for games like the witcher 3 1080p looks better. but u play pubg dota csgo or something it doesn't matter.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Nope. You can't make anything look like 1080p on 720p monitor.
Rendering game in 1080p and downscaling to 720p is just a form of antialiasing. It smoothes edges of objects at significant cost of performance.

 

[Rdslw]

Nope. You can't make anything look like 1080p on 720p monitor.
Rendering game in 1080p and downscaling to 720p is just a form of antialiasing. It smoothes edges of objects at significant cost of performance.

problem is that you will lower your performance and lower your graphic for nothing. 1080p does not downscale by any means NICELY. You will end up with non 2 or 4 to 1 downscale which means some pixels will have to be spreaded between neighbors, which will result in very crappy effect.
you will end up with something like nr.4
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/images/research/downSampleTeaser.png

 

[guanyu210379]

1080p to 720p is not upscaled but downscaled or downsampled or supersampled.
1080p to 2160p (4k) is upscaled.

I never see supersampling as something that is interesting. I always ignore this possibility. This one just cause extra performance load almost for nothing.

 

[Stephen_88]

1080p to 720p is not upscaled but downscaled or downsampled or supersampled.
1080p to 2160p (4k) is upscaled.

I never see supersampling as something that is interesting. I always ignore this possibility. This one just cause extra performance load almost for nothing.

im not going from 1080p to 720p im going from 720p to 1080p

 

[Glenwing]

You are talking about making your computer produce a 1080p image, which will be changed [from 1080p] to 720p before being displayed on the screen. That is downscaling.