Citadel Space

WH 48 ( our whatever the latest one is; Dec 6) had CR answering questions and I'm just slightly confused. He says that a gtx 780 will run the final version of the game (standard full hd; 1080) on medium settings. He also states that to run it on a 4k TV we will need either the latest card available at the time or two 780s.

Seeing as how I don't have a 4k TV and probably won't care to have one, am I really gonna have to buy a second 780 to run this game on the highest settings at 1080?

the smaller the screen/resolution you have, the easier it is to render. for instance, a game rendered on my 30" tv monitor has a bunch of lag on my old 550ti. when I switch to a 20" monitor on the same resolution, the game runs a lot smoother.

Shit I'm on a 55 inch TV.....

The size of the TV shouldn't matter. The data being sent to it is the same as long as the resolution is 1080p

well, it made a difference for me. Just sayin'. might be independant results, though.

Seems there might be a little confusion here as to screen size and screen resolution.

Screen size is simply a single linear measurement, most commonly in inches, from one corner of the displayable area to the diagonal opposite corner.

Screen resolution however defines the size of the pixel grid that is used to display images on the screen and is given as 2 numbers one for the X dimension and one for the Y dimension.

HDTVs these days are almost exclusively 1920x1080 resolution no matter what the screen size is. Obviously 4K is looking to change that by increasing resolution up to figures more like 3840 × 2160. Note that I say "more like" as there is no actual agreement yet on what 4K should be and instead currently refers to resolutions near 4000 horizontal pixels. This is similar to early HDTVs which were called 720p, which denotes a resolution of 1280x720, when in fact many were actually resolutions such as 1340x768.

Computer monitors on the other hand have varied resolutions that will almost always increase in step with the screen size increases.

When it comes to graphics processing the only thing that matters of these two measurements is the resolution as it defines then number of pixels (or fragments) that need to be processed per frame. The more pixels, the more graphics processing power required.

As a side note it has been said in various places around that 4K for TV/movie viewing really doesn't become something to worry about until you are talking screen sizes of 100" and up. Below that you are really just wasting money.

tl:dr TVs: Size doesn't really determine resolution, Monitors: Size and resolution tend to increase together. Higher resolution = more GPU power needed.

And to add into the mix. Your monitors refresh rate may be the lag you talk about as one of the tv's I had, had a refresh rate of 49hz. This meant it was impossible to get over 49 fps. Annoying now, but I did not notice at the time.

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Sorry I should have added an explanation to my last response. I was slightly intoxicated O:)