Ever Wondered What Witcher 3 Looks Like in 8K?

Didn't 4K just become a thing?

[corroios]

I wish i could see in 8k!!! 4 GPU!!!. Damn. Out of this world. With this PC i can buy a car!!!! lol.

[teamtom15]

But can that car play Witcher at 8k and 60 fps? :)

[corroios]

Damn, you got me.

[Sam Fisher]

No but maybe that car can help get you a girl or guy

[2pacalypsenow]

Dont need a car for that lol

[TheUndertaker85]

The car will get you to the job you'll be needing to work the next few years to pay for a toy that's beyond pointless in this day and age

[mikeslemonade]

Why not both? A car and a pc? Smh you commoners

[bluefox755]

Not particularly.

[Cobra951]

Nope. Not once. I haven't even thought about it in 4K. I don't want more pixels. I want better, faster pixels.

[Darkwatchman]

Um what

[Pl4sm4]

pixels soo fast like sanic

[rando]

looks amazing, but probably looks the same as it does in 1080p or 4K but in now its in 8K... read: a lot of needlessly wasted power to make the image sharper, that could've been used to make the actual graphics, visuals, physics, framerate & lighting better. hate this resolution trend. i wish it was a framerate trend instead, but to each their own.

[cartoonx1]

lol 1080p is no where near 1440p quality let alone 4k,8k. have you ever seen a game higher thn 1080p? 1080 is way jagged thn any higher resolution and is way blurrier thn 4k on witcher. this one looks extremly good.

[rando]

@ cartoonx1: no sh**. i can see that it looks better. i'm not blind... but at the end of the day, its just sharper. i'd prefer higher (locked) framerates, more realistic motion blur, self-shadowing, per object light sources, light-rays & god-rays, more polygons per-object & just better graphics overall. 8K is a huge waste of GPU/CPU resources on what amounts to "increased sharpness" which doesn't make the game that much better imo (especially given the cost it takes to get 8K 60fps, its not worth it) there's more to graphics than just making the image sharper & sharper with the same old graphics settings.

[Darkwatchman]

But here's a thing, though, when you have highly detailed assets and effects work, better image quality due to higher resolutions brings out that detail.

Case in point. I played the last of us on PS3, ps4, and ps4 pro. The jump from PS3 to ps4 was noticeable because it went from 720p to 1080p, thought it was nothing to really wow you. Just a refined version of the existing game.

Then...the ps4 pro update came out and rendered at native 4K in the 30fps mode. This pro update is JUST a resolution boost. It does not have better textures and higher poly counts and effects work like the initial ps4 version, however the pro update sticks out significantly more because the vastly improved resolution highlights details that I never noticed at just 1080p. I never noticed just how detailed the main character models were and how many miscellaneous details existed in the in-game models like hair, bruises, cuts, veins, etc because although these models already had that detail, that stuff from the standard gameplay camera angle is just not visible at 1080p.

On top of the that, a lot of textures looked significantly and I mean SIGNIFICANTLY sharper due to the 4K native resolution being able to resolve more detail in the artwork that wasn't allowed at 1080p. The 4x's texture quality boost to a lot of areas in the initial remaster was not that noticeable when just going from 720p to 1080p because those redone textures were so high res that 1080p simply did not die them justice.

At native 4K, those exact same textures look better than a lot of current generation game's textures because the resolution shows more detail in the core texture work that simply isn't possible at just 1080p.

Developers need to find a good balance between actual assets and effects work and resolution. Ignoring resolution completely would end up making a lot of detailed assets and effects work go unnoticed and simply won't due them justice. Higher resolutions help much more than you think.

[rando]

@ Darkwatchman: TL;DR... but case in point Doom on Xbox One in 720p looks way better than GOAT Simulator on PC at 4K.... see my point? i'll take graphics over resolution/sharpness any day.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@TFx- " TL;DR"

Explains a lot with you really....

[Darkwatchman]

Since you didn't read my comment, then you'll never understand. Whatever floats your boat. I don't contribute to conversations in which the other person makes no effort to fully understand both sides and just leaves valid points unread because of laziness.

[2pacalypsenow]

Too bad you cant unless you're using an 8k monitor....

[Pandamobile]

If you play the video at the highest bitrate, you can get a good sense of how crisp the actual image quality is. I'm only on a 1080p monitor, but the video itself is 80+ Mbps. Check out the silhouettes of the trees in the distance and vegetation sampling.

[2pacalypsenow]

were are you seeing the bitrate information? Im pretty sure YouTube's compression would not output the video at 80+ MBPS

[DrumBeat]

I'm still wondering because I don't have an 8K display.

[Brazz]

wow!! this 8k is so great to watch in my 1080p screen!!!! lol

[ILostMyMind]

Not realy.

[rynodigital]

So many K's

[dennigo]

looks nothing special on my 1080p monitor