02-03-2015
05:37 PM
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03-06-2024
02:52 AM
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ROGBot
05-01-2015 06:43 PM
J82 wrote:
Great help Cajun! I'll be switching laptops from Sony too from my Vaio SVS. Have a question for you.
When you're set at 1080p, are you having issues with scaling when opening PDFs like adobe or other programs (program boxes appear in windowed format with super small font for example). Or web pages appearing out of sorts?
05-01-2015 05:47 PM
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05-01-2015 07:50 PM
Mandolin wrote:
Great feedback...
On the 4K video, have you tried youtube ? Quite a bit of 4K being put on there recently... I am keen to understand the issue mentioned by that Amazon review re the 960m. If you go to the Nvidia website "4k" is definitely not included in the Product Info section (you need to slect 970m for it to appear) although if you look at the "High Resolution Display Support" under Features it says this:
Confusing...
So, any experience appreciated....
05-07-2015 02:22 AM
cajun_azn wrote:
I am still learning so apologies for excessive detail. I downloaded The Dark Knight Rises 2015-04-01 4K trailer and tried playing with 2 software: VLC and K-Lite Standard.
Experiment 1: VLC plain vanilla installation: some occasional framerate stutter, image still visible when renderd
Experiment 2: VLC + go to Simple Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Hardware-accelerated decoding = Automatic: bad stutter and huge green blocks as if it was not finished rendering
Experiment 3: MPC plain vanilla installation (GPU acceleration is enabled): smooth sailing
In short, you need to enable GPU acceleration for video playback on 4K.
EDIT: Additional note: all video playback was performed on 4K resolution, not 2K.
04-22-2015 03:25 PM
Skjoldur wrote:
The nice thing about UHD is, that it is exactly 4 times FHD, so you will always be able to switch to FHD and it will still look great if you run into any problems. It even displays 1280x720 very well since this is exactly 1/9th of UHD.
I need to work and play on my notebook when I am abroad, so UHD / 4k is perfekt for me, because I need the real estate. The large battery is even more important.
Razer made the dumb move to go for a 3200x1800 and there are virtually no external monitors with that resolution so I would have to readjust all windows after connecting. But then again they did not add a DisplayPort and they decided yet again to not enter the European market, Germany in specific. I would have bought it otherwise even though its runtime is not that great.
This one is my last hope for the moment...
04-22-2015 03:53 PM
J82 wrote:
Yes, UHD will look great on 1080p mode. However, there are still some programs that still have dpi scaling issues even after adjusting the resolution on the UHD monitor.
04-23-2015 07:44 AM
Skjoldur wrote:
How? The actual resolution will be 1080p, the rest is done by the display. Are you sure you don't mean one of those fake resolutions like MBPr uses for 1080p on retina displays?
04-24-2015 02:26 AM
J82 wrote:
This is what I meant
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7939/scaling-windows-the-dpi-arms-race/4
04-24-2015 07:49 AM
Skjoldur wrote:
But in this case they did not change the resolution, so of course they run into the scaling problems. I just said that you can reduce the resolution from UHD to FHD without the usual interpolation issues if need be. There will be no scaling.
04-22-2015 08:52 AM
drntropy wrote:
Hi Marshall,
First time poster, long time reader. I was wondering when Newegg's exclusivity agreement will end? I don't see anyone else selling the laptop right now and I do not wish to buy it from them. Thanks.