4K Display and Older Games Like Fallout 1/2

[maximaz]

Anyone try playing older games on a 4K display?

About to buy a laptop and wondering if going 4K will make those older games (Fallout, BG, Arcanum) unplayable.

 

[PlanHex]

Why would it? I mean, you can play them fine in 800x600 on 1080p screens now. Just gotta set your graphics card or monitor to fill the screen while preserving aspect ratio.
They would probably be (near) unplayable with widescreen/resolution mods set to 4K since I don't think the assets scale with resolution, especially text, models, portraits and so on. Though that may depend on the mod in question.

 

[maximaz]

Why would it? I mean, you can play them fine in 800x600 on 1080p screens now. Just gotta set your graphics card or monitor to fill the screen while preserving aspect ratio.
They would probably be (near) unplayable with widescreen/resolution mods set to 4K since I don't think the assets scale with resolution, especially text, models, portraits and so on. Though that may depend on the mod in question.

I have no freaking idea. I'd imagine that booting up Fallout 1 on a 4k screen would make it tiny?

 

[PlanHex]

I can make it fill the screen while preserving aspect ratio on any monitor. Works fine on both my 16:10 1680:1050 PC monitor, and my 16:9 1080p TV.
I only have experience with Nvidia though, but there it's pretty easy. You just need to go to the Nvidia control panel -> display -> adjust desktop size/pos -> scaling, then set scaling mode to aspect ratio, and "perform scaling on" to GPU.

Makes older games work fine for me regardless of resolution.
You should be able to do the same with AMD cards: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx

 

[maximaz]

I haven't had issues running them on 1080p but 4K might be a different story.

 

[Ada Avery]

I haven't tried it yet, But I remember One of my friends told me that it, Works fine on both PC monitor, and on TV. Since I only have a PC at home, so I use for Shop online gaming CD keys from the Instant-gaming site. Apart from this I also have experience of NVIDIA and for that you may need to go to the NVIDIA control panel -> display -> adjust desktop size/POs -> scaling, then set scaling mode to aspect ratio, and "perform scaling on" to the GPU.