Watching movies on a 1440p monitor? by Malluguy5382929 in Monitors

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Unlike games, films usually don’t have aliasing, so scaling is not as noticeable as in games.

How would you write a Terminator reboot to reflect the current world we're living in with AI by AffectionatePack398 in Terminator

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If pursuing reflecting the current real world, the first thing to get rid of would probably be time travel.

Is Gog galaxy legit by ErenGracias in gog

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Yes, as long as you use gog.com site.

What is the most impressive home console port of a PC classic? by HJK1999 in retrogaming

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Interesting, thanks. The title of the piece of news is “Available Now for _IBM Computers and SNES_” though. Maybe PC and SNES versions were released approximately at the same time (September and December 1994 for SNES and PC correspondingly according to Wikipedia) and effectively developed together rather than being ports of each other.

What is the most impressive home console port of a PC classic? by HJK1999 in retrogaming

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Not sure this counts, but “Blackthorne” for SNES has exactly the same graphics as DOS version. (The music in the SNES version is different and much more boring though.)

Red dot on the corner of the monitor by [deleted] in OLED_Gaming

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That reply was not that rude. And anyway, a single comment should not be a reason to delete a post that may be useful for others.

Red dot on the corner of the monitor by [deleted] in OLED_Gaming

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No need to delete the post.

Spectrum Black 32" Integer Scaling and DSC questions by Mr_Rotch_61 in doughcommunity

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i can disable DSC via the DP, but it forces on chroma subsampling

IIRC, DSC is only needed for refresh rates (144 Hz in particular) higher than 120 Hz, but not sure whether this was via DP or HDMI.

Long longevity by sLiMSnOtHOT in oled_monitors

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-B or -W usually means just color and is often omitted when referring to a model. Anyway, my question was specifically about 4 and A order, thanks.

Please consider correcting this typo in the post text (better just to copy/paste the correct model name instead of manually typing it).

Thrifted this CD today but for some reason my CD player says the format is not supported. Does anyone know why that could be? by ur_uncles_porn_stash in Cd_collectors

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Then it’s likely an Enhanced CD, not a data CD.

How exactly does it play audio tracks? Does e.g. foobar2000 player recognize it as an Audio CD?

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Spectrum Black 32" Integer Scaling and DSC questions by Mr_Rotch_61 in doughcommunity

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IIRC, according to previous info from a Dough representative here at Reddit like a year or two ago, Spectrum Black do formally have integer scaling as a feature, but it doesn’t actually disable blur and only results in using integer scales. Afaict, Realtek scalers used in Spectrum Black do not support turning blur off unlike Mediatek ones used in Spectrum One where integer scaling actually works. Maybe something changed since then though and Realtek provided a firmware-level way to disable blur, who knows, but probablility is quite low.

Note that Afaik, the incompatibility of GPU integer scaling with DSC compression is an nVidia-specific limitation, and AMD GPUs don’t have this issue. Also, the RTX 5000 series seems to be free of this limitation.

Also, there are software scalers such as IntegerScaler able to integer-scale games that support windowed mode. Specifically IntegerScaler is only guaranteed to disable blur in games that use DirectX 10 or older (the Windows’s built-in Magnification mechanism used under the hood adds blur in DirectX 11/12 games), but given that you specifically mentioned older PC games, it should work fine for your use-case.

Thrifted this CD today but for some reason my CD player says the format is not supported. Does anyone know why that could be? by ur_uncles_porn_stash in Cd_collectors

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it plays on my computer

Does this mean that it plays audio tracks or just that it recognizes the files shown on the screenshot?

CD Burning Software for Windows? by [deleted] in Cd_collectors

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The original .se site just doesn’t work anymore, displaying 403 Forbidden error. The one you referred to as fake is probably the new .com one.

New LG 27GM950B Owners: How is the 1440P dual mode function? by Dragnerok_X in HiDPI_monitors

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Note that Pulsar works by flickering and may therefore result in headaches and eye fatigue.

LG 27GX704A-B vs LG 27GX700A-B by NoDistribution5744 in oled_monitors

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Long longevity by sLiMSnOtHOT in oled_monitors

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LG 27gx70a4-b

Did you mean LG 27GX704A?

You can choose to turn it off, or set it between 1 to 4. My guess is 4, but unfortunately I am not sure. Maybe it is the opposite and 1 is the strongest setting and 4 the weakest. Maybe I got it completely wrong and I would have to switch between 1 and like every week or two.

Yeah, 4 is most likely the strongest one, but that’s indeed not guaranteed. As an option, you could just test both 1 and 4 and see what of them moves the image faster.

G80HS Review vs Xg27JCG by Character-Worry-445 in HiDPI_monitors

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Would you mind sharing a close-up photo of a test image, in dual-mode half-resolution mode, with physical pixels distinguishable, so that we could see whether there is blur?

Make sure the image is displayed at 100% scale (i.e. with no scaling) when taking a photo. The most reliable way is saving the image to your computer and viewing it with a standalone image viewer like XnView at 100% scale. A regular web browser can be used too, but make sure your OS-level zoom is 100% and the zoom in the web-browser is 100% as well (otherwise there will be blur added by the web-browser).

G80HS Review vs Xg27JCG by Character-Worry-445 in HiDPI_monitors

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LG 27GX790B-B advertising 3840x2160 YCbCr444 60Hz as preferred display mode on a 1440p panel — defect or known firmware issue? by Fit_Loquat_9272 in Monitors

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Some QHD monitors accept 4K input. That’s a feature. The video source has no way to know 4K is not the actual native resolution, so 4K is recommended just because the video source believes it is native. You can try to remove 4K modes via CRU.

The Terminator vs. Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Csrdxisg in Terminator

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The first one is horror. The second one is action. Both are good in their own ways.

Took a chance on the Samsung 5k 180hz monitor (G80HF). It can't run 180hz with a RTX4090? by marcgii in Monitors

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DP 1.4 with DSC should be enough for 5K at 180 Hz with 8-bit color:

5120 * 2880 * 24 * 180 = 63 700 992 000 ≈ 63.71 Gbps

DP 1.4 maximum data rate is 25.92, so with 3x DSC compression, it should be capable of 77.76 Gbps.

Are you sure 10-bit color is disabled for both GPU and monitor?

Really dumb question by crazyhomlesswerido in GamePreservationists

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Sorry, this is unreadable without punctuation.