markg wrote:
I don't think it is that simple when we're talking about videogame graphics. I get what John is saying about jaggies being far more noticeable at 1080p and can believe that the sorts of shimmering effects that aliasing can create would still be apparent from further away than you would be able to discern any difference in a film or a photograph displayed at 4K. Certainly these effects don't all simply disappear when I walk across the room from my 42" 1080 TV.
It's the edges of large things that I notice it on. Like if I play Gears at 1080p (forgot to put the res back up after watching Amazon) I noticed it immediately. Set it to 4k? it vanishes.
That was the main allure of 4k gaming on the PC, and why I wanted it. As soon as you push a game to 4k (even right up close) the need to use any sort of alias evaporates.
Hearthly wrote:
It's possible the image quality is better in other ways at 4K as well, for example Forza Horizon 4 has more effects turned on in 4K mode than 1080 mode. That sort of thing would be visible from across the room.
It's not just down to the raw pixel count.
It's an alias thing I think. Basically (now I know, I didn't before) because I am autistic I am very sensitive. To everything. Everything is brighter, louder, smellier etc. Well when I was a kid I was the puker. Every time I was put in a car I chucked. We tried absolutely everything, and then when I was about 17 and started getting into the front of my friend's cars I was fine. Turns out I am very sensitive to light flicker. Like, if I am in a car in the back and we go through a bunch of trees it makes me want to hurl. So that makes me very sensitive to any sort of flickering anywhere. And without edge aliasing images do sort of glisten and flicker. Which makes me feel rough. I mean seriously dude, I can't even go in the front of a car and read a magazine or look at my phone (because then light is flickering away to the sides of me) without wanting to chuck.
That is why I could not play the Xbox 360 I bought. I tried hard, but the flickering from the rough edges in FONV gave me a splitting headache. To be fair that was on a 24" monitor up close like you would be if you were gaming on PC.
I would also surmise that it's a large reason why I am a graphics whore. Because the smoother/clearer it is the less it makes me feel ill.