03-09-2022, 08:09 PM
Jerry® wrote:
[quote=kj]
1080i is fine. I don't know that 4k gaming is that common at this point anyway. I think higher frame rates are more important than 4k, personally. That should really blow away your Mac mini though.
Sorry I wasn’t clear I meant can the laptop go a higher res like 2560x1440 when I hook it up to my display which happens to be a 4K display. I’m not wanting to do anything 4K. And can I use my hdtv as a big display for it?
It will, but it will take extra graphics horsepower due to all the extra pixels it has to draw, which will decrease frame rate, so I would stick to 1080 (1920 × 1080). Your TV should be fine hooked up with hdmi. I would think your frame rates will be closer to 60fps, depending on how busy the graphics are. If it's higher than that it won't matter unless the monitor or tv has a refresh rate higher than 60hz. Actually, if WoW does higher than 60fps, you could try a higher resolution to see if it stays up at 30- 60fps. But I get over 100fps in a lot of games, and the smoothness is super noticeable, so I would get high fps before anything else, personally. 30fps looks pretty choppy (I play ps4 and it drives me nuts as it is capped at 30fps). You're going to notice a huge difference if you've been at 10-20fps!