Games looking bad in non native res

Hello, i have acer FULL HD laptop with gt 730m. As you know gt 730m is too weak to play games in full hd , so i tried to switch to just hd resolution in many games ( 1366*768) and it looks SO TERRIBLE! Its all blury, flickering and so.. BAD. What can i do about it , is there a solution?
Because i want to play new games in good fps , but it looks really bad

 

Sorry, there's no way to get around the blurriness, aliasing, and flickering when you run a non-native resolution, and the lower you go the worse it gets. Try 1600x900; it should be a better. Or run native resolution and turn graphical settings down as far as needed until you have a playable FPS.

It was a bad idea to pair a 730M with a FHD screen to begin with; you're trying to drive a resolution way higher than the GPU can handle.

 

You can play the game in Window mode that will not be blurry but definitely watching the desktop while playing the game is not fun either

 

Flickering? I can play at 1280x720 on a 1080p screen and it looks decent. A tad bit on the "blurry" side but not that bad. Not sure what the flickering is all about, that shouldn't exist.

 

The flickering/shimmering/crawling when in motion is due to the increased temporal aliasing at the lower resolutions.

 

Are you sure that's what OP is referring to? Flickering is usually texture or vRAM issues. Shimmering can be a result of aliasing, but the way games are scaled it's been reduced/eliminated for the most part. Sure, reducing to 640x400 on a 1080p screen might look awful, but 1280x720 is not. Usually 2x FXAA will fix that with minimal FPS hit.

 

Since flickering due to temporal aliasing affects sub-pixel elements, ex. extremely thin lines, the most, reducing resolution will obviously increase the flickering as it enlarges the sub-pixel artifacts. Which is why sampling-based AA techniques such as MSAA and especially SSAA do the best job of reducing shimmering/crawling while analytical methods such as FXAA and MLAA do basically nothing. OP can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty certain this is the kind of "flickering" he's referring to.

FXAA at a non-native resolution will only make an already blurry image even muddier. And there is no such thing as 2x FXAA as it's not sampling-based.

 

Does the IPS panel of the NP7338 (or IPS/PLS in general) downscale better than TN displays?

 

Good question. I don't know. But I don't know why/how it would? Maybe just the smaller screen helps with the higher DPI.

 

So only solution is to play in scaling center mode ( with black bars)
I really regret buying laptopt with 1080p. No pros , only cons...

 

1080P is only for high end cards, unless ofcourse you don't play games
non-native resolution is blurry and windowed mode is not fun at all, maybe you can replace LCD

 

Pros are more desktop space for managing your applications. If you bought primarily for gaming, then you need to buy the LCD resolution to go with the power of the video card, or scale. But as Captmario notes, you could possibly change your LCD to a 1366x768 one. There are tons available and usually less than $50 and in most cases take only about 30 minutes to install, as long as there is easy access to the cables and connectors on the mainboard.

 

Your problem isn't the screen it's the 730M.

 

Totally agreed... If you can return it, get something else...

 

Yep. I know, the truth hurts.

 

Watching movies in 1080p is much better then then 900p or whatever. In fact everything looks more crisp, sharper and nicer. The only con is indeed if you have a weak GPU it wont be able to handle that kind of resolution. But if you have what it takes then you should always get the 1080p.

 

Yea you will just have to reduce details

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As stated first drag every setting to an absolute minimum but keep the native resolution. Many games look surprisingly decent doing this. Last resort is lowering the resolution.