Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

[ToastyX]

(12-05-2018 09:13 PM)1DRZ Wrote:  Hi ToastyX, thank you for your wonderful tool, I have a couple q's if you don't mind:

Long story short, I play CSGO competitively and I play at 1280x960 resolution. I purchased a Viewsonic XG2402 and am using 144hz thru DISPLAYPORT (XG2402 only has HDMI and DP). After ripping my hair out trying to figure out why my monitor OSD says 1920x1080 even though I'm using 1280x960 in game I found this post that helped me understand GPU scaling and what was really going on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive...fixing_43/

To my understanding, all 144hz monitors use GPU scaling @ 144hz. It's also my understanding that GPU scaling can add some frame/input lag and it wasn't until I noticed my frame rate was a bit lower in than usual in game with my new monitor that I came to figure all this out. Since I play at a lower res than native I want to use display scaling, but according to the video creator, I should NOT use CRU with displayport as it can cause damage to my video card. Is this true? Should I get a monitor with DVI-D (I can still exchange it as it was just purchased) if I want to use display scaling instead?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

No, that's not true. The graphics driver will ignore resolutions it doesn't support unless you use my driver patches, and the patches don't even do anything for DisplayPort. Adding lower resolutions is safe. If the monitor doesn't support the resolution, it will usually reject the resolution with a message like "out of range" or display a black screen. Sometimes it might display a distorted image, but that's not a concern. I also haven't seen any evidence that GPU scaling adds lag.