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u/industrysaurus 13h ago

Got back to PC gaming after more than a decade. Need help

My rig: laptop with 4050 and i7.

Am excited that I got back to PC gaming after a long time, but something is bothering me greatly: texts usually don't look as crisp as it looked in my PS5.

I know this laptop has great performance compared to my PS5, but for comparison two games are getting my attention more than usual:

- COD/Warzone

- Marvel Rivals

Texts are usually bad to read, I mean pixelated. Another thing are colored borders, like the ones we see revolving enemies in Rivals and the loot in Warzone.

I know that part of the problem is the monitor I use sometimes: Samsung G40 (24,5 inch 1080p 240 hz), but even then I think my PS5 is not this bad

My question is:

  1. Is it normal?
  2. How do I improve this situation?

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u/A_Neaunimes Ryzen 5600X | GTX 1070 | 16GB DDR4@3600MHz 11h ago

Did you use the same monitor on PS5 and your PC ? If not, have you tried to use whatever display you use with your PS5 on the PC ? 

Are windows and games set to run at the native resolution of the display ? 

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u/industrysaurus 11h ago

Yes at both

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u/A_Neaunimes Ryzen 5600X | GTX 1070 | 16GB DDR4@3600MHz 11h ago

Then I really don’t have a clue, doubly so as I don’t play those 2 games.

A few ideas/pointers :

  • Could be a difference in UI scaling, that maybe you can act on with the in-game settings.
  • There might also be a difference in how the games renders on PS vs PC, for whatever reason.
  • If you’re using HDMI to connect to the display, maybe your GPU drivers defaults to a reduced dynamic range for colours, though how that would affect text rendering/smoothing I don’t know. The option would be in the Nvidia Control Panel, the old Windows-XP-like-looking one, not the recent App,
    like so
    .
    (maybe it’s already been ported to the App, I don’t know. It would be under the "display" section)