Guild Wars 2

I have a 4k monitor and like taking screenshots whenever I play. However, I still find a lot of zoom pixelated though they’re still good overall at 4k. I know graphic cards need to advance more for 8k to be playable but was wondering if the slideshow resolution is mostly a bandwidth or hardware issue. I get 20-40 fps at 4k but 1-6 at 8k.

Then I take the window of opportunity to get in my screenshots but then it buzzes and goes to the bluescreen with a video scheduler internal error :(

Pascal should still give the messages since I suspect it’s related to needing compatibility mode with Windows 10 as it isn’t natively compatible with DirectX 9.

Imagine being a clicker and playing on that resolution lol.

What GPU and CPU are you using? That is going to have the biggest impact.

While the newer GPUs coming out are geared more for 4k rather then 8k, its mainly based on texture resolution and not your display resolution. AFAIK GW2 uses 2k for texture resolutions. So the only remaining issue for pushing the game to 4k would be buffer memory on the GPU. 1G,2G, and 3G vRAM is not enough for 4k resolutions in MOST 3D situations. 4G with very fast Ram (HBM, and GDDR5) barely cuts is, 6GB seems to be the sweet spot per GPU right now. For 8K I would say 8GB would probably be required to get any kind of performance.

how did u a afford an 130000 + usd monitor in the first place
so maybe upgrade you’re pc ? The slide show come from hardware.

It’s a $400 monitor upscaled with dynamic super resolution.

problem 8k (7680* 4320) res requires 4 times the computations of a 4k (3840*2160)resolution and 16 times the computations of a “normal” 1920*1080

.. I’d expect 8 Gb would be minimum and 16Gb Ok…. Due to textures being (pre)rendered being 4 times the size… I’d also expect 64 bit and dual precision to be very wanted… Lastly I think the need for double (or more) Xfire or SLI-ed cards would be very beneficial at this time, In 2-4 yrs time (ultra) high ends would manage ok most likely. (Though I do not see the benefit of going over 4k anyways… (I doubt I would like a 4times the present screen size (in my case the 24" would be replaced by a 48" at the same distance as I have my screen now (75-100 cm distance)

Originally I didn’t mind playing 640*480 and 800*600 or 1024*768 …1280*960 then I moved on to a 1920*1200 or 1920*1080… I did play on 3840*2160 and 3840*2400 (mostly trying videooptions and load for my setup)

I did notice though my 2 Sli-ed GTX 780s (3Gb) have no drop in framerate whatsoever if I run 3840*2400 (the game allowed double*double rates for a while, but I mostly run windowed so I do not know if this still applies)

The only benefit (I may have stated elsewhere) I see to 8k are screenshots. I’m planning on getting the 80 version of a Pascal card. Since cards like the 780 or 980 release with a price of around $550 I’ve already started saving. Aftermarket coolers tend to add price so for let’s say an Asus Pascal 1080 or 1180 if Nvidia skips another generation that should be around $570. Nvidia announced that they’d have at most 16GB of HBM2 VRAM, not too shabby but that’s probably going to be on their Pascal Titan so the GTX 1080 should have around 12 GB of HBM2, same as a current Titan.