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[Draken]

I have a 1920 x 1080 screen , but I wish to  set the display of my IL-2 game to 2560 x 1440 ( to get better screenshots ) .
This kind of " overclocking " is possible when I go in my Nvidia parameters settings , however a message warns me that this modification could damage my screen .
How far is this true , please ?

[Old_DaD]

Surely the monitor has a built in upward res limit. ie 1920x1080?
Wouldn't there be distortions and other strange visuals, if anything?

[Bigmug]

Hi Draken!

As Old_DaD mentioned:
The maximum resolution is limited to the build-in physics of monitor. If your monitors handbook or specs quote a maximum 1920 x 1080 resolution, then you can't get more. No way. You'll need another screen.
But if you throttled down your monitor from  native 2560 x 1440 to 1920 x 1080 (for what reasons ever; maybe windows settings; maybe a wrong entry in the conf.ini) then you can of course get a higher resoultion, if your graphics can deliver that.

Have a test and watch a 4k-video on YT. You won't see a difference because your monitor (and graphics) will deliver it in 1920 x 1080 max, if that is the native resolution.

So if you want a poster from your screenies these pictures might be pimped up a bit by your local plotter shop.

Have a nice day,
BigMug

[Draken]

Yes , but when the graphic card parameters are set to 2560 x 1440 , even on a 1920 x 1080 screen , the file of the screenshot will have 2560 x 1440 pixels .
Which is more comfortable for editing the picture . For example , there is less resolution loss if I select only a part of the screenshot .

[Bigmug]

Hi Draken!

Go to your nvidia panel, look for resolution settings. One of the resolutions in the drop down menue should be marked as native (that's what my Nvidia panel shows). This is the resolution your monitor can afford, no matter what your graphics card can (...and mine can do more, but that is not shown in the dropdown menue).

All you'll ever see is the maximum resolution of the screen. Simply as there are physical not more dots available. And that is all you can "print" by a screenshot. That can't be doubled by your graphics card. One physical dot is one physical dot.

You might change that screenshot with Gimp or another tool of your choice, so you can post/print it in another resolution than it was captured. But that is then a file.
A screen with a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 will never show it in 2560 x 1440, because it simply can't due to its physical limitations....

I once played around with wallpapers on my screen, which is a native 1920 x 1080 one, but whenever I tried a wallpaper with a higher resolution I earned a black screen. Game over.

You can try to change the resolution inside the conf.ini. I've just tried that - the launch get stucked, even though the wallpaper background shown up a bit bigger in the middle of the screen. My 21" monitor is too small for that  .

Have a nice day,
BigMug