TV as a computer monitor?

Yeah my 3 27" 1080p 60hz monitors was plenty good for me with iRacing and Asseto Corsa

wearymicrobe said:

I mention it because some tv screens that are 4K are native 4K and I somre require driving them that way from a PC. Most will let you push 2K and the internals will handle it just fine. 

FYI 

You can totally do 4K on a RTX2080TI. I can do it with my GTX1080TI but you cannot push everything to ultra or even max and AA eats performance as well. RTX eats performace as well. Since most people don't even game on 120hz monitors its a minor point though ow far you can push things. Allegedly ASUS is pushing out a 300hz screen later this year that is not for a laptop I cannot tell the difference between a 120/240 though. 

I'm not sure RTX eats performance on all games.  That seems to be game dependent (just like whether or not 4k 60fps is achievable).  Nvidia claims the Turing cores and Cuda cores operate in parallel and RTX will only slow things down when ray tracing frame time is > other graphic processor frame time.

I have a 144hz Ultrawide** and its pretty great.  I'll take refresh rate and 21:9 over 4k every day of the week.

That said, if you have a TV to use as a monitor and don't want to spend the $$ for a dedicated monitor, its a great option.

**Its also HDR, but I'm not sure exactly how to configure that.  When I enable it in windows it makes white windows look weird as berkeley.

Slightly different variation of this question for me. I want to watch video from my computer on my tv without buying yet another device.  Computer is running Windows 10 Home with an older AMD 7850 video card that has two DVI and two HDMI outputs.  I have 2 monitors connected to the DVI outputs and am trying to mirror one of them on the computer.  The computer recognizes the LG tv when I hook it to the HDMI output from the video card but it indicates the display is not active.  I've tried switching through the multiple HDMI inputs on the tv and there is no new active input all the same ones have "no signal".  Any suggestions?

Do you have any casting devices on your TV?  Are you just watching local content, or are you trying to use the computer as a media center?

If you just want to watch video file content from your computer, try PLEX

In reply to secretariata :

I've run into that myself and suspected that the HDMI output on my older laptop wasn't able to negotiate a proper security protocol from Windows to the TV.

Oddly enough using Linux worked fine so I could watch the Wacken livestream.

In reply to ProDarwin :

Have a really old Firestick and 55" non-smart tv.  Don't want to buy another streaming device.  Just wanting to get stuff like youtube on the TV occasionally. 

Went back and checked a few minutes ago and when I try to set it up to duplicate either of the actual monitors to the tv it gives me an error that says the display settings could not be saved and to try a different combination of display settings.

In reply to BoxheadTim :

Not sure I want to go to the extent of setting up the machine for two OS.

You should be able to get youtube on the TV via the Firestick with zero issues.  What's going on there?

In reply to ProDarwin :

I think the Firestick is dying or may be in need of a software reinstall. Video quality has slowly been getting worse app by app to the point that I can't stand to watch anything. It is notable that the Prime stuff was last to become unwatchable. By unwatchable I mean sometimes no audio, sometimes audio & video are out of sync, & the video freezes up and/or buffers a lot (as in it takes 2x actual length or longer to watch a show)  Does not seem to be an Internet service issue.

Odd.  I'd look into that.  See if you can reset it/upgrade firmware/etc.  I have an original Chromecast (1 year older than the first Firestick) and it still works with zero issues.

I think I saw where they can do a factory reboot. Just gotta make time to try it.   It was much faster to plug the random 10 ft' hdmi cable I stumbled across into the computer.