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by hnra 1628 days ago
> I think nowadays it's much less common for games to run at a different resolution than you've already set your display to.

I would guess the opposite? 4k monitors are fairly cheap while GFX cards which can run games at that resolution with a decent FPS are expensive. Maybe hardware has gotten cheaper or way more performant in the last years though.
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ocdtrekkie 1628 days ago
I think more than likely the majority of people have either a 1080p or 4K display, and if they do, they are using that resolution both when on their desktop and when in a game.

But if you remember back in the VGA days, it wasn't uncommon to have a game set an 800x600 resolution even though you had a 1024x768 display, so switching in and out of the game came with some delay to manage that.

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tym0 1628 days ago
A lot of games now have an option to render the UI at native resolution but render the actual game at a lower resolution for performance reasons.
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