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Do 4k games exist?

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mkrohn

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So I do have a 290x sitting here and I'm about to order one of those 39" 4k seiki so what would be some games to play around with that'll just make my keyboard keys stick?
 
What the heck do you mean by "4K games"?

Any remotely recent title should handle any arbitrary 16:10 resolution relatively fine. If you're wanting to play the original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic or SimCity4 you will of course be SOL.
 
mkrohn said:
So I do have a 290x sitting here and I'm about to order one of those 39" 4k seiki so what would be some games to play around with that'll just make my keyboard keys stick?
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Only problem with the Seiki is you would be stuck at 30hz @ 4k.

I would stay away from it if I were you.
 
Most games should have no problem running at 4K resolution.

I would personally not run 4K at 30Hz.
 
Do you mean games that will play at 4K or do you mean games with 4K textures.

Yes and No if that's the case.
 
Liger88 said:
Do you mean games that will play at 4K or do you mean games with 4K textures.

Yes and No if that's the case.
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4K texture packs are available for FO3 and FO:NV IIRC. Probably Skyrim as well.

I think with TexMod, Mass Effect 2 & 3 can have 4K textures loaded as well...but it severely hampers loading performance.
 
Definitely wait until 4k@60hz is more obtainable. 30hz would get old very fast. Probably even just browsing the web would be torture.
 
but what is said quality of 4k textures, I know many a game that are using very high texture rates that still look like dogmeat LOL.

4k resolution well that depends on game, am sure you can force the higher resolution but without proper high texture it will not look good, and dida pointed it out quite well, gaming at 4k for now is just not going to be very good, 4k currently is truly meant for movies and such more then it is gaming.
 
Liger88 said:
Do you mean games that will play at 4K or do you mean games with 4K textures.

Yes and No if that's the case.
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Note that the texture being 4K or not isn't all that significant. If the texture only ends up occupying a small portion of the screen (like, say, the gun texture in an FPS) then it being 4K is fairly pointless.

On the flip side if you have a single 4K texture for an entire room, it's going to be way too small.

But there are plenty of games with 4K textures, it's not all that rare. RAGE, for example, has 8K textures (and apparently 16K as well). Doesn't necessarily mean it will look good, though.
 
Spazturtle said:
Get a 1440p 120hz monitor instead.
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This. Gaming at 30hz is garbage, no matter the resolution. 129hz 1440p is a much better experience. If you really want 4k, go with the new 60hz Asus once it releases.

And yes, as other have said games run at 4k lol.
 
yeh RAGE was one that I thought of right off the bat, massive hype for meeehh results. Maybe one day they will have enough code or capacity to allow real-time streaming of ultra-high res textures and such so photo realistic games can happen, you know like rendered CG in some movies such as FF spirits within as an example, they are not quite there yet, RAGE was good example of this, they know what they need to do, they just are not at that point to be able to do it without heavy editing which is very time expensive apparently.

I know skyrim, GTA4, Crysis 3 with their ultra-high res texture packs and mods apparently is some sick results but even top of the line gear has a tough time of playing it smoothly. Maybe just maybe Mantle or a new version of DX/GL might get it closer to being a reality.
 
When I create 3D character works, I usually use a 4k (4096x4096) texture downsampled to 2k and it gets difficult to tell the difference.

Difficult, not impossible.
 
Skyrim with 4k texture mods is stunning. Problem is the game is 32 bit and can only utilize 3.1gb of physical memory. Loading every 4k texture out there hits this wall and causes game crashes. To fully utilize 4K more games will need to be 64 bit.
 
Just run supersampling.. If you want to test out you're hardware. For example iam in 1440p, I use 150% upscale in bf4 sp, it simulate 4k, run Ok actually, not 60fps but playable.

I use nvidia custom resolution for other games like bioshock etc. Some others I will not bother since they are un playable like métro last light
 
BF4 is a very pretty game even though IMHO many of the graphics are fantasy Hollywood bs instead of the real they should be representing especially that god awful nuclear sunshine in game and all trailers/still shots and the snow that thinks it is a floodlight.

I though skyrim opened that up where it can use more then 3.1Gb memory via a flag in the ini file which they(Bethesda) made official support via one of the patches. I remember using game in stock settings and it ran well enough, added some mods started having performance hiccups, added mod to make sure it stayed above x fps so less dips and such and also allowed over x fps, then they added the patch for over 2gb(at time if I recall that was limit) I have 8 gb installed and it made it MUCH smoother for me at least.

anyways.
 
dragonstongue said:
BF4 is a very pretty game even though IMHO many of the graphics are fantasy Hollywood bs instead of the real they should be representing especially that god awful nuclear sunshine in game and all trailers/still shots and the snow that thinks it is a floodlight.

I though skyrim opened that up where it can use more then 3.1Gb memory via a flag in the ini file which they(Bethesda) made official support via one of the patches. I remember using game in stock settings and it ran well enough, added some mods started having performance hiccups, added mod to make sure it stayed above x fps so less dips and such and also allowed over x fps, then they added the patch for over 2gb(at time if I recall that was limit) I have 8 gb installed and it made it MUCH smoother for me at least.

anyways.
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It looks like there is a 4GB patch but that is the max. I'll have to do some digging tonight when I get home.
 
dragonstongue said:
4k currently is truly meant for movies and such more then it is gaming.
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4K (or, rather, HiDPI) goes a long way toward eliminating the quantization problems we've been trying to cover up for years. It's substantially more useful for gaming than it is for film and television.
 
dragonstongue said:
4k currently is truly meant for movies and such more then it is gaming.
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That couldn't be further from the truth. The bulk of 4K content available to the public right now is PC games. Most PC games can run at 4K. Then of course there are emulators. You could run the entire Wii/GameCube libraries at 4K in Dolphin for example.

Your options for 4K video at this point however are extremely sparse.

There is no 4K physical format for video currently.

There are very few digital downloads available. Naughty America and Sony's proprietary 4K player with around 75 titles seems to be it on the video front right now. Netflix and YouTube have some experimental 4K but it looks terrible and not much is available in it. And of course there is not a single 4K TV channel.

I'm waiting for GPUs with HDMI 2.0 outputs on them before acquiring a 4K display. I reckon Maxwell will be the first GPUs to have HDMI 2.0.
 
4K is on Vimeo and it caters to adults and the younger crowd alike. 4K video on my 1080p screen looks so darn good. It's hard to hold back on purchasing something. :)
 
Xizer said:
I'm waiting for GPUs with HDMI 2.0 outputs on them before acquiring a 4K display. I reckon Maxwell will be the first GPUs to have HDMI 2.0.
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Or you could just use DisplayPort (1.2 or higher) which supports it right now. DisplayPort > HDMI. Any video card made in the last few years can run 4k right now via DP (at least on the desktop anyway).
 
4k primary focus or at least why it was brought out WAS FOR TV/Movies/professional side of things in the first place, gaming is a side focus, of course those who have multi-monitor type beasts want it as such, but that does not mean it was designed for that use, there is a lot of 4k support in video/tv and such if you look for it, why is it 4k was brought out for TV first, bet you it wasn't so you could play your favorite game on it, TV/movies do far better with 30 frames then games do XD.
 
hmm so that would state 2003/2004 being a decade, a display is not a monitor, and a monitor is not specifically a gaming apparatus. anyways

The first commercially available camera for cinematographic purposes was the Dalsa Origin, released in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

http://www.amazon.com/forum/blu-ray?cdForum=Fx2R11KXGJPWBTU&cdPage=4&cdThread=Tx23TQS45QSKERM

anyways, from all that I am reading projectors and such were first for 4k type display purposes beyond the recording medium used to capture it in the first place. If said displays existed as you say for gaming wise as you kind of are hinting at with PC, then no wonder it has only been ~2010 that we really started hearing about it, no consumer hardware would have been able to run it decently well, hell from what I see even the top end gear currently out there has a tough time at acceptable frame rates.

Anyways, opinion are like Aholes everyone has one, but facts are what they are. Vimeo, youtube, Netflix and a couple others are available, and at least from what I am reading, we may just be getting this tech now, it has been overseas for quite awhile, and again I think media type stuff was first as I do not see gaming to have been acceptable enough performance for them to even bother, hell how long before anything above 1280x1024 then to 1080p years and years.
 
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There are rumours that AMD, NVIDIA and Intel have agreed to stop supporting HDMI.

So I wouldn't wait on HDMI 2.0 too much.
 
I have the 50" 4k Seiki. I play games like Kerbal Space Program and Civilization at 4k. For first person games like Minecraft I prefer 1080p for the higher refresh rates/fps. Video playback is better at 1080p, too.

I don't regret buying the TV since I got it early on, but at this point I think I would wait for 60hz 4k sets.
 
Dude wait... Seiki announced HDMI 2.0 TVs in the next month or two. It will support 60hz @ 4K res. I am waiting on one.
 
tangoseal said:
Dude wait... Seiki announced HDMI 2.0 TVs in the next month or two. It will support 60hz @ 4K res. I am waiting on one.
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I'm hoping he just took the advice and ran, seeing as he hasn't responded once in his OWN THREAD. I would love to get a 4k screen but being able to go at 120hz or faster is just to damn nice on my eyes.
 
I've played the following games at 4K on my single geforce 670 card, on a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K:

- Mass Effect (with HD texture pack)
- Mass Effect 2 (with HD texture pack)
- DiRT3 (60 fps average)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (60 fps average)
- Bulletstorm (a little slow at about 30 fps though)
- ENSLAVED (60 fps average)
- Path of Exile (60 fps average)
- Halo - Spartan Assault
- Mirror's Edge

I haven't even touched Dolphin and other emulators yet...
 
There is nothing called 4k games but there are 4k compatible games is that what you meant ?
 
Rectal Prolapse said:
I've played the following games at 4K on my single geforce 670 card, on a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K:

- Mass Effect (with HD texture pack)
- Mass Effect 2 (with HD texture pack)
- DiRT3 (60 fps average)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (60 fps average)
- Bulletstorm (a little slow at about 30 fps though)
- ENSLAVED (60 fps average)
- Path of Exile (60 fps average)
- Halo - Spartan Assault
- Mirror's Edge

I haven't even touched Dolphin and other emulators yet...
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I'm glad that you took the last 8 months to compile that list.
 
No problem - it was a lot of work! Those texture packs for mass effect were a bitch for loading times. :D

Thread needed an update, as people still think 4K is undoable for gaming. Hint: you don't have to use AA.
 
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