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Yosharian

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Yosharian, I agree that the fluidity is better with a 144Hz monitor, simply because our eyes can still register changes above 60Hz.
But, be careful not to fall victim to anyone claiming an even higher monitor Hz will do wonders for you in the future.
It's just a marketing gimmick because human eyes have their own limits!
Also, there's the weird Soap Opera Effect


Oh I know what kind of range is best. Anything above 120Hz is pretty much pointless unless you are a fighter pilot or an esports 1%-er. The 240Hz monitors (or higher! jesus) are a joke. But 100+Hz is really worthwhile once you learn to appreciate the difference.

As for 4K, 2160p is nice but I'd rather have fluid graphics than 45FPS 4K. I know where my graphics horsepower is going. 1440p is a nice middle-ground, though.
 

Riddler

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Try running BOTW on an emulator, that's pretty demanding

144hz monitors have kind of shit colour accuracy though which will make the graphics look like shitty regardless of your graphics card.
 
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Mortmal

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Try running BOTW on an emulator, that's pretty demanding

144hz monitors have kind of shit colour accuracy though which will make the graphics look like shitty regardless of your graphics card.
Go for 144Khz and IPS , colours are perfect, it's especially noticeable on path of exile.
 

Swigen

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You are gay.

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toro

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I just got a new graphics card and I'm looking for some games to make use of it. Please come up with some graphically demanding games so that I may push it as far as possible. It might also be non-RPG games (e.g. something like STALKER). The most demanding ones I've tried so far is The Witcher 3 (already finished), Dark Souls 3 (not really that demanding) and Oblivion modded oblivion (semi-shitty, crashes all the fucking time and is mostly dependent on the CPU).

Gothic Teaser
 

Riddler

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Try running BOTW on an emulator, that's pretty demanding

144hz monitors have kind of shit colour accuracy though which will make the graphics look like shitty regardless of your graphics card.
Go for 144Khz and IPS , colours are perfect, it's especially noticeable on path of exile.

They have hardly been perfect on any 144hz IPS screen I've seen, it's much better than the dogshit that regular 144hz screens are though.

Also, a decent 144hz 4k IPS screen is like 1000$+, which might be a bit excessive..
 
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Yosharian

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Try running BOTW on an emulator, that's pretty demanding

144hz monitors have kind of shit colour accuracy though which will make the graphics look like shitty regardless of your graphics card.
Yeah I don't think my $1000 monitor has that problem
 

Mortmal

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Try a 4K monitor, as others said, also try a 144Hz monitor, once you get used to 100+Hz fluidity you won't ever go back to 60, let alone sub-60. Also Ultrawide can be fun.

Try running BOTW on an emulator, that's pretty demanding

144hz monitors have kind of shit colour accuracy though which will make the graphics look like shitty regardless of your graphics card.
Go for 144Khz and IPS , colours are perfect, it's especially noticeable on path of exile.

They have hardly been perfect on any 144hz IPS screen I've seen, it's much better than the dogshit that regular 144hz screens are though.

Also, a decent 144hz 4k IPS screen is like 1000$+, which might be a bit excessive..
144hz 4K is useless , you wont run any new popamole at 120fps on ultra even 60 will be tough. Whole 4K thing is excessive by itself when you are so close of the screen you can go for lower and much cheaper monitors.
 

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Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture
I was considering 4k monitor couple of years ago but decided that running older games could be painful, since UIs were never meant for them.

I bought 25" QHD instead and still encountering issues with 2/3 of older games I try to play: NWN, KOTOR2 and IE games - even most popular titles often miss widescreen patches or interface mods that look ok in 2560x1440. I am so damn tired of stretched, tiny or blurry UI elements. Would be a nightmare in 4k or in ultra-wide-screen.

Scaling DOS BOX window is another problem, main reason I had not got to M&M 3-5 yet.
 
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Seems like RDR2 and KC:D are the best ones. I'll get the latter (should've gotten it in Humble Monthly, but I'll survive).
How's RDR2 though? I loved the first one when it came out, but I had shit taste at that time. According to
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the survival parts of the sequel are boring as shit.
 

DalekFlay

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not RPGs, but the new Ass Creed games are by far the most GPU and CPU demanding games on the market. Even heavier than RDR2.

The recent AC games and Red Dead 2 have something in common, which is that if you just lower the settings from ultra to high they run a billion times better. I can run Red Dead 2 and AC Origins at 80+fps at 1440p just by lowering a few things. Ultra settings are often thrown in as a "WTF why not" and run like garbage.

To me a game that runs "bad" and requires a new card is a game that runs like crap even on a mix of medium/high settings. The only game I can say that about at the moment is Control. It runs pretty iffy on my 2070 even at medium settings, and the only way to make it run really well is to either turn on nVidia's DLSS resolution scaling, which looks like garbage, or turn off the reflection tech, which makes the game look weird as fuck.
 

Paul_cz

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How's RDR2 though?

Personally I loved it. Yeah it is not fullblown RPG and its main missions are linear to a fault and some of its systems are undercooked, but overall it is a magnificent, sprawling and amazingly detailed piece of work with very high quality storytelling. And the PC version...60fps makes this game sing, I legit regret playing it on toaster after I experienced the PC version. RDR2, KCD and TW3 are my favourite games of this generation, in the AAA arena.
 

Cat Dude

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Pillar of Eternity 2, Pathfinder Kingmaker and Red Dead Redemption 2
 

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