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Honored Contributor
June 21, 2019
Question

How do you enable 4k on a television to play games in 4k?

I just got a Samsung Qled 4k television today and the first thing I wanted to do was to play my games in 4k obviously. I went into the Nvidia setting but I can only set the resolotion to 1920 x 1080? Also when I go into the setting of a game I can only go to 1920 x 1080p? How on earth do you play games in 4k LoL? I really have no idea how to do this. Cheers!

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    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    June 23, 2019
    Sounds great, maybe I'll get a PS5 later and test some 4k gaming, unless the Index honeymoon days extend way into 2021, lol 
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    FazzAuthor
    Honored Contributor
    June 23, 2019
    @RuneSR2 - Yes it's better then I thought it would be and makes games look so different. I'm still going to use my 1080p projector to watch movies on though because I can't beat a 100" screen for watching movies on. There's also not a lot of difference from a 1080p projector and a 4k one from what I've seen of them in shops.
    I also suffer eye strain when looking at a television screen for too long and that's what I've found with this Samsung Qled. Still it's great for games and watching a television series on where I can take breaks from looking at the screen. Do you know of anyway of reducing eye strain on these televisions? I don't get that with my projector because the light is being beamed onto a wall and not directly at me like on a television.
    Shadowmask72
    Honored Contributor
    June 23, 2019
    Well I knew you would say this. And I just checked your history and it was you who made the thread would a bigger TV get you back into pancake gaming. I think you've just answered as expected. Massive difference compared to 1080p and the clarity details are just much better than VR can achieve at present. Although should be viewed as different mediums really.

    However, once you game 2160p HDR you will be blown away in some games that support it; well if you can get it working properly that is. It's often a little fiddly and takes some time for the eyes to adjust to the differences in tones. But once your eyes settle, the details are just superior to SDR. You almost get a pseudo 3D effect in some instances. 

    Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a good game to try as is Resident Evil 7. Mass Effect Andromeda. There are actually plenty of good games which support HDR now.
    System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
    FazzAuthor
    Honored Contributor
    June 23, 2019
    @shadowmask72 - Yes that's the next thing I'm going to look at doing trying to get HDR to work. Do you know of any quick guide to getting this to work correctly?
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    June 24, 2019

    RedRizla said:

    @RuneSR2 - Yes it's better then I thought it would be and makes games look so different. I'm still going to use my 1080p projector to watch movies on though because I can't beat a 100" screen for watching movies on. There's also not a lot of difference from a 1080p projector and a 4k one from what I've seen of them in shops.
    I also suffer eye strain when looking at a television screen for too long and that's what I've found with this Samsung Qled. Still it's great for games and watching a television series on where I can take breaks from looking at the screen. Do you know of anyway of reducing eye strain on these televisions? I don't get that with my projector because the light is being beamed onto a wall and not directly at me like on a television.


    HDR will give you a lot of extra brightness - QLED generally has more brightness than my Sony TV, but the Sony has more than enough brightness for me - my wife thought she needed to uses sunglasses when watching some HDR movies, lol. You can try to deactivate HDR if possible, often I don't think HDR is so important, but it differs between movies. My Sony 4K player makes it possible to disable or enable HDR. In fact I changed Netflix to 2K instead of 4K to avoid HDR, I felt HDR was too much (also because the Sony processors do a great job making HDR effects in non-HDR material). 
    Or maybe you can create a custom setup with reduced brightness? I haven't experienced eye strain from the Sony 85", I sit about 9 feet (3 meters) from it. Another way is to turn on a lamp or two instead of sitting in the dark - if that doesn't ruin the experience. 
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"