How exactly does dynamic resolution work?
I understand that it changes the resolution for areas that are graphically demanding so that the game still runs smooth but if it is open world I am sure you would notice a resolution change if that happens on the fly? Are there load screens in between so that it changes the resolution then or how does it work? My PC could be more powerful so is there a way to achieve dynamic resolution there or do I just always have to fiddle about with the game settings?
How exactly does dynamic resolution work?
Bentley Johnson
Elijah Price
You never tried watchinv YouTube on the auto setting?
Blake Bailey
It probably subtly drops and increases the pixel count a bit as it goes when it detects more stress on the hardware.
Actually, a lot of the time dynamic resolution decreases the pixel count on a single axis, which will result in rendered pixels not being perfectly square. I don't know if that makes it seem less blurry.
Ayden Perez
But why doesn't this option exist for PC gaming?
Like when I am playing new Tomb Raider 3 it runs fine in caves and what not but once I am in the village the game really slows down.
I wish there was dynamic resolution for PC games instead of making me switch the res by myself all the time.
Cooper Thomas
>But why doesn't this option exist for PC gaming?
It does. Not all games though
Justin Moore
Implementing features takes effort, and the age-old solution on PC has been "lower your settings" or "buy better hardware". On a console you don't have the opportunity to do that so they often have to go the extra mile to put in dynamic resolution scaling, but on PC, devs would just tell you to lower the settings, and there's no reason to expect a vendor to put in a dynamic resolution setting into the drivers to let you get more mileage out of your existing card if they can just charge you for a better card.
Christopher Ross
It does. There's Titanfall 2 for example.
Brody Hall
dynamic resolution is easy to notice in most console games that have it
battlefield is a great example
watch a digital foundry video about it or something
Xavier James
>I understand that it changes the resolution for areas that are graphically demanding so that the game still runs smooth but if it is open world I am sure you would notice a resolution change if that happens on the fly?
Yeah, you do notice it. It was super noticeable on Wipeout HD and 2048 for example.
>Are there load screens in between so that it changes the resolution then or how does it work?
No it's literally instantaneous. One frame has one resolution and the next frame has a different resolution. Usually there's a scale of several different resolutions so the jump isn't too sheer.
>My PC could be more powerful so is there a way to achieve dynamic resolution there or do I just always have to fiddle about with the game settings?
The game has to support it. I seem to recall DigitalFoundry making a video about a game which does, but I can't remember which.
Jonathan Nelson
>game's 3d scene is rendered to a frame buffer
>resolution of the buffer can be modified on a per-frame basis and scaled before final output
Now if only more games supported dynamic super-resolution like SteamVR does.