With this Sunday question, the editors would like to know from you which graphics settings you play your games with and which presets and image output you use. Highest level of detail and maximum ray tracing or adjusted settings and maximum refresh rates as well as the best possible frame times?
Table of contents
- How do you play your games?
- What resolution do you play in?
- How do you set your graphics settings?
- What detail level do you play your games at?
- What frame rate do you aim for?
- Do you play your games with ray tracing?
- Do you use upscaling techniques?
- Do you use HDR on the PC?
- What else do you use?
- Participation is expressly desired
- The Overview of the last ten Sunday questions
How do you play your games?
Full HD, WQHD, 4K/UHD or an ultra-wide resolution? 30, 60, 120 FPS or more? Presets or manual settings? How do you play your games?
What resolution do you play in?
Loud the current Steam Hard & Software survey, the vast majority of 65 percent of gamers still play their games with 1,920 × 1,080 pixels, i.e. in Full HD or 1080p.
But does that also apply to ComputerBase readers, or are higher resolutions used more and more? What native resolution do you play your games in?
What native resolution do you usually play in?
- 1,280 × 720 pixels
- 1,920 × 1,080 pixels
- 1,920 × 1,200 pixels
- 2,560 × 1,080 pixels
- 2,560 × 1,440 pixels
- 2,560 × 1,600 pixels
- 3,440 × 1,440 pixels
- 3,840 × 1,600 pixels
- 3,840 × 2,160 pixels
- 4,096 × 2,160 pixels
- 5,120 × 1,440 pixels
- 5,120 × 2,160 pixels
- 5,120 × 2,880 pixels
- 6,016 × 3,384 pixels
- 7,680 × 4,320 pixels
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How do you set your graphics settings?
There are usually several ways to determine the level of detail and the graphics quality. In addition to firmly defined default settings, the so-called presets, it is also possible to manually adapt the settings to your own system. It is also possible to adopt the recommendations of the developers or additional programs such as Nvidia Experience. But how do you go about it?
How do you set the graphics settings in games?
- I make it easy for myself and use a preset
- I take my time and configure all settings manually
- I accept the recommendations of games or additional programs such as Nvidia Experience
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In which detail level do you play your games?
The editors are aware that this question cannot be set in stone for every game, but what level of detail do you usually use for current titles?
What level of detail do you usually use?
- Very low level of detail
- Low level of detail
- Medium level of detail
- High level of detail
- Very high level of detail
- Maximum level of detail
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What framerate are you targeting?
30, 60, 120 or even 160 and more frames per second? What refresh rate do you usually aim for? Of course, different genres may have different requirements and trade-offs in terms of target frames per second, but how many FPS is typically your goal in current games?
What frame rate are you targeting?
- 30 – 60 FPS
- 60 – 80 FPS
- 80 – 100 FPS
- 100 – 120 FPS
- 120 – 140 FPS
- 140 – 160 FPS
- 160 FPS and above
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Do you play your games with raytracing?
The editorial team first took up the topic of ray tracing in 2007, long before Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) and RTX On, with a basic report and since then has accompanied it with a total of five sequels and numerous tests of current games.
- Ray tracing in games I: Rays promise photorealism
- Ray tracing in games II: The realm of rays is making progress
- Ray tracing in games III: Quake Wars with ray tracing
- Ray tracing in games IV: Ray tracing in the cloud
- Ray tracing in games V: News from the world of rays
- Ray tracing in games VI: How rays are made accelerated by GPUs
It is undisputed that the algorithm for calculating concealment, which is based on the emission of rays, can graphically represent a very large gain, depending on the game. But it is also undisputed that ray tracing demands an enormous increase in performance, especially from the GPU. So how do you feel about ray tracing?
Do you play your games with ray tracing active?
- Yes, I can't and don't want to do without ray tracing
- It all depends on how much performance ray tracing costs in the respective game
- No, raytracing generally costs me too much performance
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Do you use upscaling techniques?
Especially when using ray tracing, upscaling techniques such as Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS can deliver significant performance advantages and a sometimes better image than with natively rendered frames. For many gamers, however, the native image output is still the measure of all things. What do you think?
Do you use upscaling technologies?
- No, I'm playing in native resolution
- Yes, I'm using Nvidia DLSS Super Sampling < /li>
- Yes, I am using AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution
- Yes, I am using Intel Xe Super Sampling
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Do you use HDR on your PC?
In addition to ray tracing, HDR, assuming the appropriate display device, is also able to significantly improve the image quality in games and display images with particularly large differences in brightness, a greatly expanded dynamic range and a far greater contrast.
Do you use HDR in games?
- Yes
- No
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What else do you use?
Modern graphics cards offer many other technologies via the graphics driver, such as AMD FreeSync, Nvidia G-Sync, Reflex, VRR or Adaptive Sync, which Experience, the graphics and the playback of games as well as the performance and power consumption can sometimes have a significant impact.
With which features do you enhance your games, improve their performance or reduce their energy consumption ?
What other features do you use?
- AMD FreeSync
- AMD FreeSync Premium
- AMD FreeSync Premium Pro
- AMD Radeon Anti-Lag
- AMD Radeon Boost
- AMD Radeon Chill
- Nvidia G-Sync
- Nvidia G-Sync Ultimate
- Nvidia G-Sync Compatible
- Nvidia Reflex
- VESA Adaptive Sync
- Resizable BAR
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Participation is expressly desired
The editors would be very happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for your decisions in the comments on the current Sunday question. If you have completely different favorites, please write it in the comments.
Readers who have not yet participated in the last Sunday questions are welcome to do so. There are still exciting discussions going on in the ComputerBase forum, particularly on the last surveys.
An overview of the last ten Sunday questions
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- Would you like to find out more about efficient or similar things? . read economical hardware?
- Have you reached your pain limit with the gaming PC?
- GTA I & II or rather San Andreas, Vice City & GTA V?
- What grades do you currently give AMD's AM5 platform?
- Is the power consumption of new hardware still up to date?
- How does Ada Lovelace calculate for Nvidia?
- How do you rate the separation of the two GPU specialists?
- From vacuum robot to household android?
- What has been your greatest overclocking success so far?< /li>
- Microsoft Xbox Series X or the Sony PlayStation 5?
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