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plumpan
@plumpan

anyway I saw a youtube video about "wow we put a higher res screen in the steam deck it's so cool" and I'm amazed that people are capable of missing the point by such a margin


aune
@aune

the thing i am incredibly not normal about (okay, one of them) is that the increase in screen resolutions everywhere is ruining everything

i swear to god sure it's pretty but a tiny screen does not need to be pumping out more than 720p this is obscene why are phones 4K that is Entirely too much processing for a screen the size of a... well, tablet now, but still much smaller than that resolution will Ever need


plumpan
@plumpan

Plum is a card carrying member of "Display pixel density has gone too far". We pushed display technology so far that we had to come up with entirely new sets of software to get graphical screen elements to render larger because otherwise they'd be so small you couldn't read them. It's a massive increase to the amount of data being asked to be output from the computer (the pixels) and we're honestly at the point where that extra output has no real functional gains, IMO.

I'm not gonna like, razz someone for having a 4K TV (good luck finding a high quality 1080p set), but I think displays are the single best example of marketing and unwitting customers chasing big number above all else. It's probably the most egregious in context of gaming, where the resolution increase very directly impacts the amount of compute that needs to be thrown at the task, in a situation where it's already compute limited, and ultimately just encourages people to buy obnoxiously high power draw GPUs just to render a game that could probably deliver the same level of enjoyment on a device that draws >25w with the right, primarily graphical, tweaks.

"But why do you care about power draw" just think about, using 400 watts of electricity to play a video game. Yes that's on the very very high end of what would ever be drawn in the real world by a total system but, think about that. For a game.

Of course I think 4K TVs are generally a waste of pixel density, 4k 24"-27" PC displays are literally just extra hassle, and 1080p smartphones only make sense because you're laying in bed right now with the thing 6 inches from your face reading this post1 and the entire OS is already built around scaling every graphical element up to work on it. It's all just wasted electricity at the end of the day, but good luck putting that cat back into the bag. And again, the native resolution begats media at that size. All the extra compute and data to prepare and deliver 1080p video to a phone instead of 720p, the MASSIVE file size differences and hilariously compute heavy codecs involved in youtube or netflix's backend to deliver 4K video. Hell, you ever remember getting a higher res monitor and all of your favorite furry art doesn't take up the whole screen anymore without looking weird? It just causes more problems all the way up the chain.


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

oh no

I didn't watch the video at all I assumed it was a drop in kind of thing (still probably a huge hassle on the steam deck + ignoring the benefits of a high res screen at that viewing distance and size + ignoring the tradeoffs of trying to run games at higher res on that hardware) but that makes it even worse!

yup the Deck only runs at its native res so if you install a higher res screen with the standard bios then it just displays in a small corner of the new screen.

So you get to trust the company making grey market third-party mods to control the bios of your system! BUT YO 1080P GAMEING (ON A FUCKIN 5 INCH SCREEN OR WHATEVER)

honestly a much more sensible mod (I think) would be the same res but just nicer quality - I've heard the displays are pretty crappy for what they are. If there was a display that was the same specs but OLED or something that might actually be useful.

Maybe the worst part about how businesses focus on higher pixel density all the time is, they're a lot more reluctant to make high quality, "normal" pixel density displays. They probably could make a really good 1280x800 or whatever 7" display, but they see there as being no demand (because every marketing person pushes for bigger resolution number) so they go for the cheap stuff instead.

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in reply to @plumpan's post:

it is PARTICULARLY BAD with consoles, but even desktop GPUs just... can't yet. i mean. they can at obscene wattage. it is absurd that people are trying to push 4k on these damn things.

i push 2x1080p displays at 23" and a modern "midrange" GPU hardly breaks a sweat even on ray tracing shit

Don't get me started on modern consoles, there's little I think is worthwhile about them.

I've honestly enjoyed getting games to run on my 4650U mobile APU. Some stuff unfortunately just chugs when it shouldn't (art of rally) but some stuff gets a nice PS360 petina which I actually quite enjoy for some reason (Most Yakuza games).