How do you play your games: graphics settings, presets, video output and peripherals

With this question on Sunday, the editors would like to know what graphics settings you play your games with and what presets and image output you use. The highest level of detail and maximum ray tracing or custom settings and maximum refresh rates as well as the best possible frame times?

How do you play your games?

Full HD, WQHD, 4K/UHD, or ultra-wide resolution? 30, 60, 120 FPS or more? Presets or manual settings? How do you play your games?

what resolution are you playing in?

according to the current Steam Hardware and Software Survey the vast majority of 65 percent of gamers still play their games at 1920 × 1080 pixels, that is, in Full HD or 1080p.

But does that also apply to ComputerBase readers, or are higher resolutions being used more and more? What native resolution do you play your games in?

How do you set the graphics settings?

Generally, there are several ways to determine the level of detail and quality of graphics. In addition to firmly defined default settings, so-called presets, it is also possible to manually adapt the settings to your own system. It is also possible to adopt the recommendations of the developers or additional programs such as Nvidia Experience. But how do you do it?

At what level of detail do you play your games?

The editors are aware that this question can’t be set in stone for every game, but what level of detail do you typically use for current titles?

What refresh rate are you looking for?

30, 60, 120 or even 160 and more frames per second? What refresh rate do you usually aim for? Of course, different genres may have different requirements and trade-offs in terms of target frames per second, but how many FPS are you typically aiming for in current games?

Do you play your games with ray tracing?

The editorial team first tackled the subject of ray tracing in 2007, long before Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) and RTX On, with a basic report and has since accompanied it with a total of five sequels and numerous gaming tests. current.

It is indisputable that the algorithm for calculating occultation, which is based on the emission of rays, can graphically represent a very large win, depending on the game. But it is also indisputable that ray tracing demands a huge increase in performance, especially from the GPU. So how do you feel about ray tracing?

Do you use upscaling techniques?

Especially when using ray tracing, scaling techniques such as Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS can offer significant performance benefits and sometimes a better image than natively rendered frames. However, for many gamers, native image output is still the measure of all things. What do you think?

Do you use HDR on PC?

In addition to ray tracing, HDR, assuming the right display device, can also significantly improve image quality in games and display images with particularly large differences in brightness, greatly expanded dynamic range, and much higher contrast.

What else are you using?

Modern graphics cards offer many other technologies through the graphics driver, such as AMD FreeSync, Nvidia G-Sync, Reflex, VRR, or Adaptive Sync, which can sometimes significantly affect the experience, graphics, and game playback, as well as performance and power consumption.

What features do you use to improve your games, improve their performance or reduce their power consumption?

Participation is expressly desired

The editors would be very happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for their decisions in the comments on the current question on Sunday. If you have completely different favorites, write it in the comments.

Readers who have not yet participated in the last questions on Sunday can do so. Exciting discussions are still taking place on the ComputerBase forum, especially regarding the latest polls.

The last ten Sunday questions in the summary

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