Solved BMS on 4K TV
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I have a friend at work who mainly flies DCS but wants to try out BMS. Unlike me, he uses a 50 inch Samsung 700 series 4K TV as monitor. He was wondering if his TV’s resolution and refresh rate would be supported by BMS. Also, is ghosting an issue with a TV. He says DCS A-10C and Hornet look amazing on his TV albeit with reduced ground detail.
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@chuckles I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work?
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Yes, definitely, traditional 3840x2160 or 4096x2160. Right now I’m even running a triple 4k 55" TV setup. BMS scales well to a lot of oddball resolutions, I’d say a little easier than DCS.
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@chuckles BMS looks great on my 4k monitor.
With TVs, there are a couple wonky details to pay attention to… but none of this is really BMS specific (vs DCS or any other PC game)
HDR => normal HDMI 2.0 can’t carry an uncompressed 10-bit HDR signal, 4k @ 60hz, so there may (?) be some compression artifacts if your connection is 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 instead of full-fledged RGB.
Dynamic range => for whatever historical reasons, TVs often expect a “compressed” dynamic range… if your PC sends the full range of RGB values, blacks can get crushed and things (especially at night) will look very very dark
Iirc this isn’t something negotiated in the EDID handshake, so you have to set it manually on your TV (if possible) and also on your PC.
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A very competent answer to an interesting question, if I daresay.
The key seems to be still in the video card (nVidia, but also AMD would be the same) settings, as usual.
@Chuckles and @airtex2019:
thanks a lot, dear friends. Those contributions of yours helped me in verifying my actual settings, but - listen, listen - I made all fine. This time only for once.With best regards.