DCS in 4K?

[DSR_T-800]

For a while now I've been gaming at 1440x900 19", which is a tiny resolution. I didn't think it was that bad until I noticed I couldn't spot planes nearly as well as my friends who play at 1080p. I thought my high pixel density justified my smaller resolution. Kinda like when your friend would say "Hey come over, I've got a giant TV!" But the image quality is that of a small 30" TV at 360p, but stretched out to 55". So it just looks awful. But even a 27" monitor looks pretty good at 1080p. So I was thinking instead of getting a 1080p monitor, how about I get a 4K monitor at ~29". That would be an upgrade from 1296000 pixels to all the way to 8264400 pixels. Over 6 times my currently resolution. That is a better upgrade than going from 480p to 1080p. My biggest problem right now is my graphics card, currently I'm using a GTX 960 2GB edition. I regret buying this Nvidia card now that I'm looking 4K gaming I should of went with the R9 290. Another reason why I'm going 4K is that AMD(mostly) and Nvidia are pushing 4K pretty hard. We've pretty much just skipped 1440p and are going to 4K.

 

So for anyone who has a 4K monitor and is playing DCS, can you share your FPS, settings and GPUs. For now I'm only looking to play games at medium settings at 4K for 2-0AA. I'm not trying to max anything out. Also, I don't play any insane triple A titles, so I really only care about DCS and IL2 BoS.

 

Even by looking at 4K medium settings on BF4, pretty much every card is getting amazing FPS(By the way, look at the R9 290X preformance, at launch it was no better than a GTX 780, but it just shows you just how much AMD has improved their drivers.) Hopefully, I can get my hands on a R9 290 or a R9 390.

 

Also if you could be kind of enough to tell me your FPS, on medium to highest settings without AA. Obviously at 4K.

 

Thank you.

 

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph8526/67718.png

 

1440x900(19")=89 dpi

 

1280x720(32")=46 dpi

 

1920x1080(21.5")=102 dpi

1920x1080(22")=100 dpi

1920x1080(23")=96 dpi

1920x1080(24")=92 dpi

1920x1080(27")=82 dpi

1920x1080(42")=52 dpi

1920x1080(52")=42 dpi

 

2560x1080(25")=103 dpi

2560x1440(27")=109 dpi

2560x1080(29")=96 dpi

 

3840x2160(25")=176 dpi

3840x2160(28")=157 dpi

[Chief1942]

I have an ACER XB280HK w/G-Sync. It is capable of 4K with my Titan X GPU but I don't run it at that as I simply cannot make out the script in DCS modules. I believe it is simply a matter of scaling and hopefully ED will rectify that with 2.0 Am currently running at 256x1440. Works for me until such time as DSC scales better without having to incorporate a bunch of .lua hacks.

 

My FPS stays pretty much at 60FPS (screen res) with all settings at max.

Edited July 5, 2015 by Chief1942
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[will-]

have a 70 sony 4k tv i could hook and try if you want. but just been using montior or dk2.. gtx980, i7...

[SharpeXB]

I have been using a 4K (actually UHD is the correct term for 3840x2160) monitor for several months now with DCS, BoS and many other games like Far Cry 4 etc.

 

You said you only want to run flight sims like DCS and BoS and yes they look superb in UHD. I can see individual soldiers on the ground in DCS and read the tiny text in the cockpit zoomed out.

 

The down side of running UHD is that it's extremely demanding. In fact running games like Far Cry 4 or Crysis 3 in UHD at Ultra and 60 FPS requires two GTX Titan X cards. Now I see you just said that's not important to you, which is fine. My own opinion is that the extra resolution isn't so worthwhile on normal games and having to turn down the eye candy is disappointing. Normal shooter type games don't necessarily need such resolution and the cost of going there is very high.

But if you're only running flight sims and don't care about Ultra graphics then the extra resolution is very nice.

As far as GPUs there's always been an issue with ATI cards and DX9 driver support so sims like DCS and BoS prefer Nvidia. That's set to change of course with EDGE. You'll need the most powerful GPU you can afford, depending your budget it looks like the best card running now is the 980Ti unless money is just no object in which case it's a Titan X but the performance gain there is minimal.

 

I ran some tests here

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=142942

 

And here

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=142849

 

PS an important consideration with GPUs is their connections. Looks like some of the ATI cards like the Fury X do not have HDMI 2.0 connectors. If you want to use an HDTV those are required for 4K. Otherwise for PC monitors you can use DisplayPort 1.2.

Edited July 6, 2015 by SharpeXB

[HiJack]

Celebrating my new 40" 4K monitor and the Sapphire 390X with 3 fresh screen shots :thumbup: Immediate frames with no adjustments is 20 - 80 in 3840x2160 - 60 Hz, really nice to fly with this :) I'm ready for DCS World 2 now.

 

 

 

 

[blackbelter]

OP, did you try DSR using your 960 card? It helps quite a bit in spotting distant targets. My 680 2GB is able to pull X4 DSR off. I am sure your 960 can do it as well, if not better.

[Flycat]

Hijack, that pic is really awesome and marvelous!

and could you tell me which level anti-aliasing have you set for 4k monitor?

My friends told me it doesn't need high level anti-aliasing on 4k resolution.

and do you have Mig-21 module? could you upload a screen shot of its cockpit on 4k resolution?