Overview
A simple guide how to play to the game on higher resolution than the monitor’s native resolution.
NVIDIA DSR
Dynamic Super Resolution renders a game at a higher, more detailed resolution and intelligently shrinks the result back down to the resolution of your monitor, giving you 4K quality graphics on an HD screen.
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To make the game graphics better the only thing you need to to do is to enable Dynamic Super Resolution in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Follow these steps in the guide to eanble Dynamic Super Resolution.
Before we can set Dynamic Super Resolution we first need to determine whether our GPU supports it. This table shows the currently supported DSR cards and was taken from this website: [link]
1. On the desktop right mouse click->NVIDIA Control Panel.
2. In the control panel go to Manage 3D Settings. Find DSR – Factors on the Global Settings Tab. Select the multiplier of your choice. Mine is set on 4.00x (native resolution) then click Apply. Finally close the NVIDIA Control Panel.
3. On the desktop right mouse click->Display Settings.
4. Go to Advanced display settings.
5. Select the resolution of your choice, than click Apply. In this case we will select 3840 x 2160.
6. Go back to display settings.
7. Here comes the important step. Make sure you move Change the size of text, and other items: 150% (Recommended) slide bar to 100%. Otherwise the game won’t run at 3840 x 2160 resolution.
8. Launch the game. if it is not in Windowed Mode, just press Alt + Enter to enter to that mode. Go to Graphics->Display Resolution and set resolution to 3840 x 2160.
Result
Enjoy. This screenshot was made in 4K resolution.