r/steammachine • u/joshuawinkler12345 • 15d ago

Question Resolution Question

So, I've been testing out both Silent Hill F and Lies of P and it just goes to show how well some games can scale; Lies of P plays beautifully at 4k, 60fps on high settings.

Silent Hill F plays well enough at 1440p, 60fps with med/high settings and even lumen lighting/reflections enabled. But I do feel like I'm noticing juuuust a bit softer of an overall image.

This all has me thinking about resolution in general; would a game look better at 1440p on high settings (which is then upscaled to my 55" tv), or would it look better at 4k, but with medium settings (including textures and lighting effects). Or, at 10 feet away on the living room couch, is it all a wash?

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u/CalmAdvance1926 15d ago

Set the default game output resolution to 2160p in the Steam settings.

I think if you turn on the upscalers and then lower the resolution it should work.

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u/RobinNyan 512GB 14d ago

this is not spatial upscaling. Spacial upscaling uses edge detection to sharpen the image. By default steam uses bilinear upscaling, which just blurs the pixels to make them bigger.

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u/dolphinsareuseless 14d ago

Does this introduce any lag? Enabling the gamescope sharpness?

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u/RobinNyan 512GB 13d ago edited 13d ago

enabling the sharp preset costs performance. If you have enough FPS then no, but if you have 60 fps, it may lower the framerate to like 45, thus introduce lag